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

NVC & Boundaries
2026-06-06 10:00 - 2026-06-07 17:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Braschzeile 12-14, 14109 Berlin (Wannsee).
Weekend workshop

What a delicate human moment it is — the one in which someone says or receives a “no.”
“Can we make love?”
— No.
“Would you like to go for a coffee with me?”
— No.
“Would you like to work together?”
— No.
It takes such vulnerability to voice a request — to courageously share your heart and its dreams. And it takes just as much courage to stay true to yourself, not to please the other at the cost of your own authenticity.
So often we end up saying yes when we actually mean no — because we’re afraid of losing connection, or because “it’s the right thing to do.”
This weekend is an exploration of those delicate moments — their depth, their vulnerability, and the dynamics they reveal.We’ll begin by discovering our own boundaries and what truly matters to us, since so much confusion and pain arise when we don’t even know
where our boundaries are.
We’ll learn to say no in a way that is authentic, safe, and connecting. We’ll learn how to receive a
no without betraying the vulnerability that comes with it. We’ll learn how to transform the moment of giving or receiving a
no from a wall into the beginning of a meaningful dialogue — one where
you can be you, and I can be me, together.
“Words are windows, or they’re walls.” — Marshall Rosenberg

Teaching Style
Expect minimum 50-70% practice and exercises, demonstrations and other interactive ways to engage, and the rest it’s gonna be theory.
When?
6 -7 June 2026
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 – 17:30

Daily schedule:
Saturday Arrival: From 9:30
Morning Workshop / Practice space: 10-13
Lunch: 13 – 14:15
Afternoon Workshop / Practice space: 14:15 – 17:30
Sunday Arrival: From 9:30
Morning Workshop / Practice space: 10-13
Lunch: 13 – 14:15
Afternoon Workshop / Practice space: 14:15 – 16:00
Financial Co-Responsibility Circle: 16:15 – 17:30
Goodbyes: Until 18:30

We’ll have organic breaks to support us through the schedule.

Where?
Braschzeile 12-14, 14109 Berlin (Wannsee).
For this 2 days workshop, we’ll be able to gather in the privacy and calmness of a house in Wannsee. A large garden with solemn old trees offers the grounding and space needed to gently move into the vulnerability to meet ourselves and each other at our boundaries and in the pain of where they’ve been crossed.
It’s possible to sleep on site for a limited amount of people, priority it’s given to who comes from out of town.

Experience:
No previous experience it’s required, everyone is welcome. The exercises will allow deepening the NVC practice even when you already have experience with it.

Who is this for?
Space is limited to a group of 14 people. As we want to create a safe container to also explore our hurting parts, we would prefer people to join for the full weekend flow. If you can’t join the whole thing contact us and we’ll see if it’s fitting for you to join only one day or a part of the workshop.

Price?
This event is neither charged, nor free.
We’re intending to create/ to play with a conscious systems-based approach to money and how it flows in between humans. We want resources to flow towards serving & nourishing life. As we are co-creating learning, developmental and healing spaces we want to care for what’s needed for people to attend as well as for what’s needed so that we can continue to co-create such spaces.
That’s why we’ll offer two systems of distributing (monetary) resources in between the people present in an attempt to make this event financially sustainable for everyone.

About the food
Dinner and lunch will be prepared in advance, let us know of any special food allergies

Register
To register, please fill this form.

Your Instructors

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
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

NVC meets Authentic Voice
2026-06-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin, Kreuzberg, 10997, Germany
About the Course

NVC & Voice Workshop

This workshop brings together Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and voice work as two complementary paths of exploring how we express, listen, and relate.
NVC offers a way to understand what is truly alive in us — beneath judgments, reactions, and habits of language. Voice work opens a direct, embodied channel to express that aliveness — beyond words, through sound, vibration, and presence.
When these two meet, something shifts: Communication becomes not only something we say, but something we feel, hear, and resonate with. Perhaps even something we are.

What we’ll explore
Throughout the day (or weekend), we will move between these two practices, letting them inform and deepen each other:

How to share authentically — and listen in a way that truly receives another

How voice can reveal what words alone cannot

How we can connect deeply to ourselves and others through our authentic sound

How judgments point toward deeper, meaningful needs

How the 4 steps of NVC can be experienced not just cognitively, but in the body

How needs live in us — and how they can be expressed through both language and sound

How empathy can be practiced not only through listening, but also through collective voice

We’ll explore this through:

Guided check-ins (spoken and vocal)

Partner and group exercises

Embodied explorations of resonance and vibration

Reflective moments to integrate insights

The experience
This is a practice-based, experiential space. We will move between speaking and sounding, listening and sensing, structure and openness.
No prior experience with NVC or authentic voice work is needed — just a willingness to explore and be present.

Practical Details

Location: Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Dates: 13th June 2026

Time: 10:00 – 17:00

Pricing
Sliding scale: €70 – €90

Who is this for? For anyone curious about:

Bringing more authenticity into communication

Connecting voice, body, and inner experience

Exploring NVC beyond concepts — as a lived practice

Experiencing connection that goes beyond words

Registration
To register, please fill this form.

Your Instructors

Martina Pesce & Anne Loek Beernink

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.
Anne Loek Beernink
Anne Loek has been an actress in film and
television during the earlier stages of her
professional career. Her deep interest in the
power of the human singing voice led her on
a profound journey of personal and
professional transformation. Her work supports
the process of re-wilding, of nurturing a
deeper and more authentic relationship with
one’s own body and innate creative potential.
She explore, creates and holds space in the
fields of voice, sound, movement, personal
growth and ancient wisdom. Her work intends
to contribute to connecting one with one’s
deeper calling.
She studied Holistic Voice Therapy and
received training in Collective Vocal
Improvisation in the UK and Germany. She
holds a M.A. in Integral Movement and
Performance Studies from Rose Bruford
College London in collaboration with the ITPC.
