Berlin NVC

NVC Certification Candidate Practice Group/Pod
2024-07-21 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-07-28 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-08-04 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-08-11 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-08-25 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-09-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2024-09-08 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-09-15 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin) and 1 more date | Zoom online
Inviting NVC certification candidates to create and practice presenting key distinctions with others.
During the meeting we will spend 15-20 minutes writing a key distinction of our choice and then another 21 minutes in groups of 3 (ideally) to present and receive feedback.
We meet on zoom Sunday at 20:00 Central European Time which is 2pm EST
Looking forward! 🙂
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5729439403?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 572 943 9403
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NVC LIVE Practice Session
2024-07-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-08-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom online
In this practice session we invite a participant to share a real conflict, argument, misunderstanding or situation with the group.
Together we can practice Nonviolent Communication, guess Feelings and Needs and let the Beauty of NVC unfold!!!
If you would like to be super prepared then click on this link to download a list of FEELINGS and NEEDS.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5729439403?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 572 943 9403
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Heart Meetings in Berlin
2024-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Imago Space Berlin, Glogauer Str. 21, Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10999, Germany
•Our events are always free of charge and open to anyone. You don’t need to sign up in advance!
•No previous experience needed, come as you are!

•Where?
Imago Space Berlin, Glogauer Str. 21, 10999 Berlin, Kreuzberg
•When?
Tuesday 5 November
19:00-21:00
Doors open at at 18:45, and the workshop begins at 19:00.
•Who?
Baltazar Faunbäck from HejHumans is the facilitator.
•What?
Heart Meetings are simple frameworks and methods created by HejHumans for using presence to speak to each other’s hearts and create a place of trust, care and curiosity in a playful way!
​​The purpose of Heart Meetings is to create a safe place to interact with other people about the things that are vital to us as human beings. Here we actively share and listen to each other in order to support and grow together. We explore different methods and frameworks to meet each other as people and have meaningful conversations. Here we filter out all the titles and boxes that can be put on in society to be able to unite with the understanding that we all need the same things – such as being seen, heard, accepted, appreciated, loved and feeling meaning and purpose. The methods and exercises we use are a combination of already existing material and exercises that we at HejHumans have developed. Among other things, we use the Authentic Relating conversation method, which is for sharing and listening about important life topics. Welcome!
Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/heart-meetings-in-berlin/2027159284400494/
​​Read more and join our misson:
​​https://www.hejhumans.org/
​​https://www.instagram.com/hejhumans/
​​Contact:
​​balta.borg@gmail.com
​​+46763919886

The Empathy Café Berlin
2025-02-08 16:30 - 18:30 | BAVUL – Kunst & Kultur Café, Annenstraße 13, Berlin, 10179, Germany
Empathy Café Berlin – A place to give and receive real understanding
​In today’s world, we rarely have spaces where we are truly heard and acknowledged. Instead of listening to understand, we often debate, argue, or get stuck in opinions and polarization. But what if we could create a different kind of conversation?
​At the Empathy Café, we offer a warm and welcoming space to slow down and practice empathetic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—a space where we listen not to reply, but to try to really understand.
​Each week, we explore and practice:
✨ Listening actively and empathically to make others feel heard
✨ Reflecting emotions and needs to create deeper understanding
✨ Expressing ourselves in a way that fosters connection instead of conflict
​This is both a space for learning and growth but also just for having someone that listens to you if you need it or if you have something on your heart you want to be heard for, anything!
​Through guided exercises, small group discussions, and practical tools, we’ll learn to communicate in a way that bridges differences, builds trust, and nurtures real human connection. In a world filled with noise and division, this is an antidote—a space for healing, growth, and mutual understanding.
​No prior experience needed—just an open heart and curiosity for connection.
​📍 Location: BAVUL – Kunst & Kultur Café, Annenstraße 13, 10179 Berlin
🕒 Time: From 16:30 (hang out available until 00:00)
💬 Languages: Sessions in English. Other languages available: German, Turkish, Spanish.
​The Empathy Café is free, however donations are welcome and appreciated!
Register here: https://lu.ma/t6wfva73
​Empathy Café is a collaboration between HejHumans and BAVUL Café.
​Come as you are❤️

NVC Intermediate Course
2025-09-18 00:00 - 2025-11-13 23:59 | virtual
About the Course

Embodying more and more NVC in everyday life is rather complex, as violence is the consciousness that surrounds me at home, work, and in the streets.
“Put me in a room full of violence and I’ll lose my compassion”.
To keep my nonviolent consciousness is key to have a community where I can go back to center it and cultivate it more deeply.

Course content
We are going to start polishing and de-rusting even more our NVC, so that it becomes more natural and authentic.
What you are gonna learn:

Empathic listening: a layer deeper
Street giraffe (how to speak NVC with everyone, moving “away” from the 4 steps)
Vulnerable honesty: Peeling the layers of authenticity
How to take decisions: The art of being torn
Saying no
How to transform guilt
NVC apologies
Guessing requests

The program might shift as I like to follow what’s alive and the unique learning curve of the specific groups I work with.

Learning style
Our focus is on the embodied aspect of NVC, so classes will not look like a seminar. To practice and integrate NVC, we implement a mixture of 30% theory and 70% interactive practices such as exercises, demonstrations, role plays, and processing of real-life situations emerging during the course. So, be ready to tackle your real life!

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Desired amount of experience
To have join a Basic course from me or the “From Conflict to Connection” course

When?
The course will consist of 9 sessions of 3 hours each, once a week, starting on:
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You cannot see any date?
Check my Facebook page!

Still nothing?
It means a course is not yet scheduled/ in the process of being scheduled.
Would you like to join one? Hit me with a message!

Where?
Online, on Jitsi Meet.
You won’t need to download anything.

Number of participants
The number of attending participants can go from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 20. There might be one or more assistants joining us to support you on your very personal learning journey.

Price
The cost of the course is between 250 and 350 euros.
I offer a sliding scale as everyone has a different income and financial situation, and I intend to leave you as much as possible the freedom to contribute out of your means and free will.
The payment takes place in two steps:
1) A prepayment of 100 euros before the beginning of the course to reserve your spot
2) The completion of the payment one week before the end of the course, so that your payment comes from gratitude and not only from a sense of duty

About money
Money is my favorite strategy to care for the sustainability of my offerings. It’s very flexible and easy to direct towards what supports contributing to me, depending on the moment. Your contribution also supports a sense of mutuality in us.
At the same time, we are open to other possibilities if this one prevents you from joining. Please contact us if that’s the case.

Materials
At the end of every session, you will receive a summary of the main points touched during the session and a recording of the lesson (for viewing, not downloading), which will be available until 2 weeks after the end of the course.

Registration steps:
1) Read the terms and conditions (I know, I also never read them, but I would really love to be on the same page with you on this, to make sure we are both at choice). By registering, you agree and consent to them.
2) Send an email to martinapescenvc@gmail.com with:

Subject: “From conflict to connection course”

Content: your name and surname + anything you’d like me to know

3) Complete the 100 euros prepayment by sending money to
Name: MARTINA PESCE
IBAN: [REDACTED]
BIC: NTSBITM1XXX
Please write “your name and surname” in the message description

Nonviolent Communication Intro Workshop
2025-09-20 | Loeperplatz, 10367 Lichtenberg, Germany, Loeperplatz, Berlin, 10367, Germany
What’s going on with human connection?

Did it ever happen to you that you tell your partner you want to see them this evening and you end up very angry with each other? Or that you call your mum for that amazing recipe and you have to hang up because you are almost shouting at each other? Or that you just wanted to pick up an outfit and you end up hating yourself and your body?

I don’t know you, but I feel so lost.Nonviolent communication is a tool to tackle this. A very simple, practical, dynamic, and effective one.

This 2-hour workshop will be very hands-on in your life and with a lot of exercises (70% interactive, 30% theory). It won’t look much like a lecture.We will tackle judgements, empathic listening and how our language patterns live on our bodies.
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WHEN?Saturday 20 SeptemberWelcome: 15:45Starts: 16Ends: 18Goodbye: 18:30

WHERE?A private location, a couple of minutes walking from:Loeperplatz, 10367 Lichtenberg, Germany
Exact location will be communicated upon registration

PRICEMindful Donation Based (you give what you can, maybe even nothing, if unsure, we always enjoy and are often touched by the honest, sincere dialogues that come out of the topic)
Registration:-FB: PM me – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093569845870-Telegram: @craftingdialogues-email: martinapescenvc@gmail.com
How to pay:-Cash on site-Paypal: martinapescenvc@gmail.com (@MartinaPesceNVC)-Bank transfer to:
Name: MARTINA PESCEIBAN: IT65 Z036 [REDACTED] 217BIC: NTSBITM1XXX

WHAT TO BRING?-Many people enjoy having pen and paper, but it’s not compulsory-You in whatever state you are -You are welcome late, though if you didn’t get the address before it might get tricky as I won’t check my phone too much, but try

WHO?
Martina Pesce
The transformational power of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) hit me the first time at the beginnig of the covid pandemic. It allowed me to reconnect with my mum during a very difficult conflict—and I felt love for her for the first time in 20 years. so, later on, after three years immersed in neuroscience research, and after facing the lack of meaningful mental health support in that field, it seemed clear to me where i needed to start, and it felt natural to shift path.For the past three years, I’ve been sharing an embodied approach to NVC through courses, workshops, individual sessions, and mediations. My work emphasizes practice and lived experience over theory, I like to offer small, digestible steps that invite an integration of the deep revolution that NVC proposes. I’m passionate in creating spaces where this is possible in the intra personal, inter personal and system level, as real impactful change happens when these move together.If you feel connected to my approach, I’d be happy to share this path with you.And of you have any questions, especially impolite ones, please just ask.

Matthias Flury
Hi. My name is Matthias. To be honest with you, I’m incredibly hesitant to write this short biography about myself. Part of the resistance comes from a fear of not being enough – it’s an insecurity that often comes alive since for many years of my life my need for connection wasn’t met, no matter what I tried. Out of this experience I’m shy to show and present myself, even to an unknown reader, to not go through the pain of rejection again. Another source for this hesitation is that I’ve got an idea of how I need to present myself here as a teacher. “I need to sell myself well and in a way that will make you trust me and curious to learn from me”. And I’m worried that I’ll try to perform as something I’m not in order to achieve that. Underneath the pressure of trying to be perfect I’m certain I’ll lose something incredibly important. I’ll lose connection to myself and with that any hope of actually contributing value to you.That’s why I’ll start this introduction of myself like this. I’m looking forward to meeting you and exploring together how we can connect to our feelings and unknown desires. How we can hold space and lovingly meet each other exactly where we are in our authentic selves. This is the place where relationships gain intimacy and depth, where love grows and where life begins to make sense.Just in case you actually want to know about my background: I started learning about NVC in 2019, took my first lessons with Empathie Stadt Zurich in 2020, and completed my education in 2023 with a course about teaching and embodying NVC by CNVC-Trainer Yoram Mosenzon. I regularly support NVC-teachers as an assistant in their courses and occasionally teach myself. If you have any questions you can reach me at matthias.flury@mail.ch

From Conflict to Connection
2025-09-23 00:00 - 2025-11-18 23:59 | virtual
About the Course

A conflict is a call for connection.
It’s two hurting hearts craving to be heard, when there are no ears to listen.

Let’s learn how to pick up this cue, transform this separation and take it as a chance to connect to each other and ourselves even deeper.

We’ll practice listening until we fall in love with the core behind opposing opinions.
We’ll practice expressing ourselves with an open heart – vulnerable, authentic and still inviting for connection.

From Conflicts…
Conflicts are tearing our world apart:
Metaphorically in our relationships and communities: Something painful happens or we disagree and our loved ones and colleagues all of the sudden become our biggest enemies. Where we wished for support, togetherness and care, the only things remaining are broken trust and feelings of abandonment and loneliness.

As well as practically in the world: While climate change, biodiversity loss and soil degradation threaten humanities survival and soaring inequality and injustice highlight the divides in our society, every effort towards change seems to suffocate in economic pressure or through political constraints. Society seems to split between political opinions on who’s to blame and how to care for our wellbeing.

And also as a felt experience, when different parts within ourselves are in conflict with each other. So often we are torn – having to choose between two options with an equal amount of pro’s and con’s. How to embrace these dilemmas, understand ourselves and care for what we really want?

…towards Connection:

This workshop series builds on non-violent communication (NVC). A tool developed by Marshall Rosenberg to address the questions “What is the origin of violence?” and “What kind of education would support us to develop a different culture?”.
We’ll use its theoretical framework, philosophical underpinnings and many practices to dive deep into the core of our conflicts – to create presence and awareness for the delicate dance of life happening at all times within, in between and all around us.
This moment of understanding – which is always a felt experience and not only a cognitive achievement – is the connection that’s needed. When we arrive there, what was stuck begins to unfold again. Finding solutions becomes effortless and conflict transforms into collaboration

So let’s learn how to bridge these gaps that divide us.

About approaching NVC
We will start a journey as a community to go beyond right and wrong, to get in touch with all of life and to connect through communication in all its forms. We will practice to get in touch with the authentic core of your being and to fall in love with the beauty of your vulnerable self. We will learn how to express this in a way that is authentic and real and yet still increases our chances to be understood by the people listening to us.
We will learn how to bring understanding and compassion to our most difficult conflicts.
We will step by step build more skills to listen, express and connect in our real life, while having a safer space to go back to for support, learning, and recentering the nonviolent consciousness we will start to embody.

What you are gonna learn:

The art of listening
What is the origin of conflict? How can we develop compassion for it and see it as an opportunity
Responsibility & why it’s so tricky where we allocate it
What are feelings & how to understand their function in the body
How to be together in reality
How to foster connection and understanding by really listening (to others and yourself)
How to move from conflict to collaboration and feel like a team
How to be touched by what is important to me, and to you
How to express and how to receive a “no” (how to understand and deal with rejection)
How to ask for your dreams, without having a demanding energy
How to navigate a conflict and resource yourself in it
How to repair the hurt that happened without bad intentions
How to share and receive gratitude, so that it fuels connection and growth

We experienced learning NVC as a revolution that allowed these points to be integrated into my life. I hope and trust it may support you similarly, and I want to acknowledge everyone’s uniqueness. We are looking forward to witnessing your personal evolution.

Learning style
Our focus is on the embodied aspect of NVC, so classes will not look like a seminar. To practice and integrate NVC, we implement a mixture of 30% theory and 70% interactive practices such as exercises, demonstrations, role plays, and processing of real-life situations emerging during the course. So, be ready to tackle your real life!

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Desired amount of experience
No amount of experience is required to join this course.
When?
The course will consist of 9 sessions of 2.5 hours each, once a week:
Tuesdays 17:30 – 20, Starting 23 September
All dates: 23 – 30 September; 7 – 14 – 21 – 28 October; 4 – 11 – 18 November

Where?
Online, on Jitsi Meet.
You won’t need to download anything.

Number of participants
The number of attending participants can go from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 20. There might be one or more assistants joining us to support you on your very personal learning journey.

Price
The cost of the course is between 300 and 500 euros.

We offer a sliding scale as everyone has a different income and financial situation, and we intend to leave you as much as possible the freedom to contribute out of your means and free will.

The payment takes place in two steps:
1) A prepayment of 100 euros before the beginning of the course to reserve your spot
2) The completion of the payment one week before the end of the course, so that your payment comes from gratitude and not only from a sense of duty

About money
Money is our favorite strategy to care for the sustainability of our offerings. It’s very flexible and easy to direct towards what supports contributing to me, depending on the moment. Your contribution also supports a sense of mutuality in us.
At the same time, we are open to other possibilities if this one prevents you from joining. Please contact us if that’s the case.

Materials
At the end of every session, you will receive a summary of the main points touched during the session and a recording of the lesson (for viewing, not downloading), which will be available until 2 weeks after the end of the course.

Registration:
Apply on the google form

What to expect in the google form? 1) Read the terms and conditions (I know, I also never read them, but I would really love to be on the same page with you on this, to make sure we are both at choice). By registering, you agree and consent to them.
2) Send an email to martinapescenvc@gmail.com with:

Subject: “From conflict to connection course”
Content: your name and surname + anything you’d like us to know

3) Complete the 100 euros prepayment by sending money to
Name: MARTINA PESCE
IBAN: [REDACTED]
BIC: NTSBITM1XXX
Please write “your name and surname” in the message description
or Paypal: martinapescenvc@gmail.com

Enroll

Your Instructor

Martina Pesce & Matthias Flury

Martina Pesce
My mission is to contribute to a world where everyone can be heard and seen, by others and themselves.
Hi, I’m Martina. I came in contact with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) through a relationship where I started to grasp the beauty of this tool. After 3 years of self-study and occasional practice, I was touched by how this communication allowed me to connect with my mum in conflict, so strongly that I felt love for her for the first time in 20 years.
Unsatisfied with the lack of mental health support in the neuroscience research field, I decided to switch careers and dive deep into NVC. I trained as a mediator, counsellor and trainer at the Connecting2life school (Yoram Mosenzon). It was a two-year-long process of embodying the tool and then learning how to transmit it so that it could sink in the body. For a year I’ve been holding my workshops, courses and 1:1 practice.
My approach is based on practice and embodiment. I found NVC very revolutionary and with that respect, I like to let sink in our system a few bits of info at the time, rather than an overwhelming waterfall of theory.
Matthias Flury
Hi. My name is Matthias. To be honest with you, I’m incredibly hesitant to write this short biography about myself. Part of the resistance comes from a fear of not being enough – it’s an insecurity that often comes alive since for many years of my life my need for connection wasn’t met, no matter what I tried. Out of this experience I’m shy to show and present myself, even to an unknown reader, to not go through the pain of rejection again. Another source for this hesitation is that I’ve got an idea of how I need to present myself here as a teacher. “I need to sell myself well and in a way that will make you trust me and curious to learn from me”. And I’m worried that I’ll try to perform as something I’m not in order to achieve that. Underneath the pressure of trying to be perfect I’m certain I’ll lose something incredibly important. I’ll lose connection to myself and with that any hope of actually contributing value to you.
That’s why I’ll start this introduction of myself like this. I’m looking forward to meeting you and exploring together how we can connect to our feelings and unknown desires. How we can hold space and lovingly meet each other exactly where we are in our authentic selves. This is the place where relationships gain intimacy and depth, where love grows and where life begins to make sense.
Just in case you actually want to know about my background: I started learning about NVC in 2019, took my first lessons with Empathie Stadt Zurich in 2020, and completed my education in 2023 with a course about teaching and embodying NVC by CNVC-Trainer Yoram Mosenzon. I regularly support NVC-teachers as an assistant in their courses and occasionally teach myself. If you have any questions you can reach me at matthias.flury@mail.ch.

Unlocking Empathy: NVC Weekend Workshop
2025-11-22 - 2025-11-23 | Yogaraum Schöneberg, Martin-Luther-Str. 46, Berlin, 10779, Germany
About the workshop
In this weekend workshop we’ll explore, experience and unlock the power of empathy and self-empathy.
You’ll get a hands-on experience with the art of empathic listening – a way to support trust, compassion, and allowing a deeper connection to happen.

An entire workshop dedicated to Empathy?
Yes 🙂 Empathy is the key to connection and understanding. It plays a huge role in every interaction we have – at work, in our relationships and in how we relate to ourselves (not to mentions politics..). Imagine what the world would look like if all of us had more empathy for each other!

Some of the subjects we’ll cover:

How to connect with the feelings and worldviews of others (even when they contradict ours)
Transcending listening habits that create disconnection
Self-Empathy: The art of self-connection
Empathy & Boundaries
Empathy for Conflict Transformation

This workshop is based on Nonviolent communication (NVC) – a mindful communication approach developed by psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. It teaches how to connect, moment-by-moment, with what’s most human in ourselves and others, ultimately transforming the way we relate to one another. Rooted in compassion, NVC shows a path to expressing our authenticity while connecting emphatically with the people in our lives.

Your Trainer – Ido Sternberg, Certified Trainer (CNVC)
I’m a mediator, Certified Trainer for Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and NARM-Informed Professional. I am fascinated by human connection, empathy, and dialogue. Since 2018, I’ve been helping individuals, couples, and teams have courageous conversations and transform their conflicts.
When:
Sat, Nov 22nd 10:00 – 16:00
Sun, Nov 23rd 10:00 – 15:00
Where:
Yogaraum Schöneberg
Martin-Luther-Str. 46
10779 Berlin
Fee:
130€/170€/200€ for individuals,
250€ for companies.
If you want to participate, but this price doesn’t work for you – let me know and we’ll figure it out.

Register HERE

Unlocking Empathy: NVC Weekend Workshop
2026-06-13 - 2026-06-14 | Yogaraum Schöneberg, Martin-Luther-Str. 46, Berlin, 10779, Germany
About the workshop
In this weekend workshop we’ll explore, experience and unlock the power of empathy and self-empathy.
You’ll get a hands-on experience with the art of empathic listening – a way to support trust, compassion, and allowing a deeper connection to happen.

An entire workshop dedicated to Empathy?
Yes 🙂 Empathy is the key to connection and understanding. It plays a huge role in every interaction we have – at work, in our relationships and in how we relate to ourselves (not to mentions politics..). Imagine what the world would look like if all of us had more empathy for each other!

Some of the subjects we’ll cover:

How to connect with the feelings and worldviews of others (even when they contradict ours)
Transcending listening habits that create disconnection
Self-Empathy: The art of self-connection
Empathy & Boundaries
Empathy for Conflict Transformation

This workshop is based on Nonviolent communication (NVC) – a mindful communication approach developed by psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. It teaches how to connect, moment-by-moment, with what’s most human in ourselves and others, ultimately transforming the way we relate to one another. Rooted in compassion, NVC shows a path to expressing our authenticity while connecting emphatically with the people in our lives.

Your Trainer – Ido Sternberg, Certified Trainer (CNVC)
I’m a mediator, Certified Trainer for Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and NARM-Informed Professional. I am fascinated by human connection, empathy, and dialogue. Since 2018, I’ve been helping individuals, couples, and teams have courageous conversations and transform their conflicts.
When:
Sat, June 13th 10:00 – 16:00
Sun, June 14th 10:00 – 15:00
Where:
Yogaraum Schöneberg
Martin-Luther-Str. 46
10779 Berlin
Register HERE
