NVC Mediation Immersion Program
Why immersion? Learning to respond to conflict in a new way is very much like learning a new language. And the best way to become fluent in a language is to immerse yourself in an environment where others are speaking and learning it too. So we invite you to experience our yearlong program in NVC Mediation.
With its three four-day intensives and structured practice in between, the program offers in-depth training in a new language, a new set of skills, a new consciousness. It gives you the time you need to become confident and effective in dealing with all aspects of conflict, in all aspects of your life. It also gives you a community that will support continued learning and growth long after the program ends.
Ike and John
“I’ve met many people who tried for years to integrate NVC into their lives and found that the yearlong NVC Mediation program was the missing link for them. This approach gets the fundamental skills and consciousness of NVC much deeper into your bones.”
– Newt Bailey, Co-Trainer
Program Overview
How We Teach, How You Learn
Practice. To learn how to do something, you must practice it. We lay a foundation through instruction and demonstration, but the focus is on practicing and integrating NVC mediation skills. More
Role-play. Experiential learning via role-play is the best way we’ve found to rapidly acquire the skills and capacity to mediate conflict. One-, two- and three-chair models mimic the real world’s varied situations and give you a chance to practice from the perspective of each chair/role. It’s a very effective, safe way to learn. More
One step at a time. To make the skills easier and faster to learn and embody, we approach them through exercises that build one upon the other, in increasing levels of difficulty. You yourself control the intensity level – we won’t ask you to get ahead of yourself. More
The Intensives
The immersion program’s three multi-day intensives build on each other. With each gathering, we go deeper. There’s always extensive practice through role-play—you’ll learn the three-chair practice model in the first intensive.
Intensive 1.
You’ll develop your capacity to be present during conflict, and you’ll practice applying the language and skills of NVC to mediating conflict—both internal and between others.
- Self-connection practice
- Intensity exercise
- The five-step mediation model
- The nine skills
- The enemy image process
- The chooser-educator process
Intensive 2.
We will introduce some new concepts and skills while expanding on those you learned during the first intensive. Here’s where you begin to integrate your learning and gain real confidence.
- The nine skills, continued
- The enemy image process, continued
- Interpersonal mediation
- Self-care
- Making amends
Intensive 3.
The final intensive goes deeper still with mediating both group conflict and inner conflict. We’ll talk about our “inner community,” meaning our internalized culture. You’ll begin to embody the skills in your life.
- The healing and reconciliation process
- Mediating with groups
- Internal mediation
- Support for putting your new skills to use
Between Intensives
As in-depth as the intensives are, you can’t master NVC Mediation in a few days. It’s your commitment to continued practice that gets you to a place where your ability to hold and mediate conflict really shifts. That’s why we’ve created a structure for learning and practice between intensives.
- Daily individual self-connection and skill-building practices
- Weekly telephone dyad and triad practice with fellow participants
- Monthly joint teleconference sessions extending one month after the third intensive to support next steps and integration of the training into your life
- Ongoing support from assistant trainers during and between intensives