NVC Santa Cruz: Home

Overview of NVCSantaCruz.org:

Jean Morrison, Kelly Bryson, Christine King, Rick Longinotti, and Kristin Masters share their diversity of experience and interests to offer NVC services, adaptable to your needs.

Events Calendar -
Get a complete rundown on upcoming workshops and event series

Services -
Our Trainers are available for other services for your group or organization, including full and half-day workshops, audio/video presentations, conflict mediation, individual, couples, family counseling, and a trauma and conflict response team.

Resources on Nonviolent Communication -
Links to Trainer's websites and online NVC sources.

Community Page -
Has announcements from our network concerning NVC practice groups, related events, community living and more...

Location -
The Center For Compassion is our home in Santa Cruz - look inside for detailed directions.

Our Monthly Newsletter -
Sign up for our free monthly email newsletter and also select topics of interest to receive special class announcements.

Creating peace,
one conversation at a time

Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz provides opportunities to learn lifelong skills for communicating with compassion, fostering mutual respect, and resolving conflicts peacefully.

We support the mission of the international Center for Nonviolent Communication by offering a variety of services for individuals, couples, and groups to learn and practice Nonviolent Communication in the Monterey Bay and surrounding areas.

Why Nonviolent Communication?

We have all been in situations where misunderstanding occurred. Either we have felt misunderstood or the other person got the wrong impression. What went wrong?

We often leave these situations feeling mystified as to what happened. How were we so misunderstood? Why was the other person so stubborn? Why couldn’t they understand what I was trying to say? Learn more...

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What's New - September

Happy Labor Day - what better way to honor workers than to celebrate a day off! In the spirit of supporting you in your livelihood, NVCSC is outreaching to businesses and organizations. Our skilled NVC trainers can help foster a work culture where everyone's needs matter. Please call or email me if you would like to learn more about incorporating NVC in your workplace.

Here's a testimonial we received last month: "I am amazed at how powerful NVC is and what a positive impact it has had on my work life. I work in the customer service area caring for the elderly and disabled. It's a challenging job, and customers dread calling in with issues they'd like to resolve because Jackal is spoken fluently and nearly exclusively--by them and US! In practicing NVC, I can honestly say that I've come to enjoy my work and those challenging customers-they've taught me a lot, and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to practice NVC at work."

September is jam-packed with a cornicopia of class offerings. We invite you to pick one to suit your needs: anger and big emotions, parenting, couples, foundation, street giraffe, and we appreciate you telling others about our monthly intro. We hope you'll join us in cultivating and harvesting a more juicy and fruitful life through practicing NVC.

Kudos and celebrations for Stretching Towards Nonviolent Communication - Weekend Festival of Workshop, organized by the Neck Stretchers - a group of five NVC trainer certification candidates. It was a chance for emerging trainers to support each other in sharing their teaching gifts and unique perspectives. The turnout was great, evaluations from participants were glowing and we are excited about the success of this new format for having a community-building mini-retreat.

We thank you for working (and playing!) to grow NVC locally and thereby creating more peace and compassion globally.

with sweet summery salutations,
Laurie Brooks
NVCSC Director

PS, We are looking for giraffes with juice for editing videos from our Conflict Improvs. Got juice? contact Laurie - info@nvcsantacruz.org