ONLINE DECEMBER 2025

with Leah Boyd, Certified traininer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication

Many of us have experienced the world of feedback as uncomfortable terrain that we are navigating without a map. So let’s demystify it! In this training we will share a “map” along with skills that can help feedback be useful and supportive whether we are on the giving or the receiving end of the equation. 

NOV 7 - 16, 2025 IN PERSON

9 Day Intensive Residential NVC Retreat in Connecticut, USA

BECOMING EMPOWERED IN A F***ED-UP WORLD with Peggy Smith and a vibrant team of international trainers including Aga Rzewuska-Paca, Amal Mekouar, Andres Lodieu & Morris H. Ervin, Jr

Experience immersion in an international community of NVC learners of all levels in a residential setting.

OCTOBER 22 - 29, IN PERSON IN BANGOR, ME

with Leah Boyd & Karen Groat

This comprehensive training will include: demonstrations, discussions, exercises, videos, and role-play practice with mediation scenarios, in addition to mini-lectures. The sessions will focus on both the facilitative and transformative orientation models.

ROOTED IN ANCIENT WISDOM AND MODERN SCIENCE

OCT/NOV 2025 ONLINE

Join us for a transformative 9-day ONLINE Nonviolent Communication Intensive Training spread over three 3-day weekends (Fri-Sat-Sun) in October 17 through November 2, 2025. Experience immersion in an international ONLINE community of NVC learners of all levels.

With experienced CNVC trainers Peggy Smith, Sarah Peyton, Rodger Sorrow, Sylvie Hörning, & Vania Perez Moreno

ONLINE Oct 2025

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Leah Boyd

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

IN PERSON SEPT 26-28, 2025

A three-day in person retreat with noble silence, meditation, and Resonant Language skill building Peggy Smith, Theodate Lawlor & Lynn Deeves.

ONLINE August 2025

An NVC training with Certified NVC trainer Leah Boyd

This interactive 7.5 hour training is geared toward those working in professional environments - workplaces, organizations. We will explore the benefits of becoming skillful at both giving and receiving feedback rooted in NVC skills & awareness.

ONLINE May 2025

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE March 2025

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Leah Boyd

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE DECEMBER 16, 2024 6:30 - 8:00

with Certified NVC Trainers Peggy Smith and Leah Boyd

FREE! Join us for NVC Community Practice online

Sept 27-29, 2024 in person in Maine

A Retreat facilitated by Dharma Teacher and Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, Peggy Smith, and Dharma Teacher, Theodate Lawlor including mindful sitting, walking and eating. There will be opportunities for deep relaxation practice, noble silence & possibly canoeing/kayaking.Relational Neuroscience will be a focus of our practice time. We will engage practical listening & speaking skills that build warmth and connection for ourselves & others.

ONLINE June 17-19, 2024

An NVC training with Certified NVC trainer Leah Boyd

This interactive 7.5 hour training is geared toward families and communities. We will explore the benefits of becoming skillful at both giving and receiving feedback rooted in NVC skills & awareness.

ONLINE Mar 15 - 17, 2024

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE WEDNESDAYS MAR 6-27, 2024

with Certified Trainer Peggy Smith

Participants will learn practical strategies for helping calm strong emotions in ourselves and others. Together, we’ll delve into verbal and somatic strategies to move away from brittle reactivity and into resilient responsiveness.

ONLINE WEDNESDAYS NOV 8 - DEC 6, 2023

with Certified Trainer Peggy Smith

Participants will learn practical strategies for helping calm strong emotions in ourselves and others. Together, we’ll delve into verbal and somatic strategies to move away from brittle reactivity and into resilient responsiveness.

ONLINE Dec 5 & 12, 2023

A level 2 training with certified trainer Leah Boyd

Inner conflict….I suspect we’ve all been there! Internal Mediation allows us to address inner conflict in a way that often leads to greater understanding, creativity and workable solutions that are good for our whole self..

ONLINE Nov 10 - 12, 2023

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE OCTOBER 2-4, 2023

with CNVC certified trainer Leah Boyd

A next level NVC Feedback training for those who have already taken Giving & Receiving Feedback training.

A Retreat in the Plum Village Tradition

Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2023 in West Gardner, Maine

with Dharma teachers Peggy Smith and Theodate Lawler

ONLINE Sept 11-13 and Sept 18-19, 2023

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Leah Boyd

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE June 9 - 11, 2023

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE MAY 15-17, 2023

A level 2 training with Certified NVC trainer Leah Boyd

In this interactive 7.5 hour training participants will explore the benefits of becoming skillful at both giving and receiving feedback rooted in NVC skills & awareness.

ONLINE TUESDAYS Mar 7 - Apr 18, 2023

With certified trainer Leah Boyd

No NVC experience required

Whether caregiving for someone who needs support is a labor of love or something we’ve found ourselves doing by default or surprise, it takes an enormous amount of energy and can stretch us in ways we’ve never been stretched before. In this class we’ll offer skills for self care within a supportive learning community.

ONLINE WEDNESDAYS Nov 30 - Dec 14, 2022

with Certified Trainer Peggy Smith

Participants will learn practical strategies for helping calm strong emotions in ourselves and others. Together, we’ll delve into verbal and somatic strategies to move away from brittle reactivity and into resilient responsiveness.

ONLINE TUESDAYS Sept 20 - Oct 18, 2022

with Certified Trainer Peggy Smith

Participants will learn practical strategies for helping calm strong emotions in ourselves and others. Together, we’ll delve into verbal and somatic strategies to move away from brittle reactivity and into resilient responsiveness.

ONLINE August 12-14, 2022

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Leah Boyd

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.

ONLINE WEDNESDAYS June 1 - 29, 2022

A level 2 training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

In this interactive 7.5 hour workshop we will explore the practical neuroscience of reactivity. Participants will learn both verbal and somatic strategies for caring for ourselves in moments of stress.

ONLINE MAY 2 - 6, 2022

A level 1 NVC training with certified trainer Peggy Smith

Would you like to build & strengthen your capacities for a sustainable equitable future for all life. Learn skills to bring your human relationships into balance so that we can live as the part of nature we are born to be.