About Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is an approach based on empathy, respect, and authentic dialogue. It was developed by psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). NVC helps us better understand ourselves and others, recognize our needs, and communicate in a way that promotes understanding, trust, and cooperation instead of conflict. This approach is applied not only in personal life, but also at work, in schools, communities, and professional fields that emphasize human contact and understanding.
For professionals in the fields of mediation, psychotherapy, and other helping professions, NVC provides a practical and profound framework for working with emotions, needs, and conflicts. It allows us to bring more calm, empathy, and clarity to challenging situations. It helps mediators recognize the essence of a dispute beyond positions and arguments, offers psychotherapists a language for working with clients' authentic experiences and needs, and enables coaches to conduct conversations that promote both responsibility and humanity.
Nonviolent Communication in Intimate Relationships
with Ian Peatey and Tomáš Čejchan
About the Workshop
This two-day workshop is designed as a shared journey rather than a collection of separate techniques.
At the beginning of the workshop, each participant chooses one real relationship from their own life and identifies one recurring challenge connected with it. Throughout the two days, we keep returning to this relationship, exploring it from different perspectives and gradually discovering new possibilities for understanding and growth.
Our intention is that you leave not only with fresh insights, but also with a renewed vision for that relationship and one concrete next step to take.
The Opening Framework — Four Experiments
We begin the workshop with four thought-provoking invitations. These are not truths to be learned or rules to follow. Instead, they are experiments that we return to throughout the two days—an invitation to temporarily set aside your doubts and live as if each statement were true.
Take 100% responsibility for the relationship you want to create.
(Inspired by Miki Kashtan and Albert Ellis.)
Choose connection over being right.
"Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?"
— Marshall Rosenberg
Meet your partner with fresh eyes.
What if today were the very first time you met them?
The quality of your conversations determines the quality of your relationships. The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.
Save the Date
October 8–9, 2026
The workshop will be interpreted into Czech.
Reserve your place today!
PAST EVENTS
2025
Needs as a Compass for Understanding: NVC and Liv Larsson in Prague
You have a unique opportunity to experience live international lecturer Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and author of more than 20 books, Liv Larsson, who will lead two interactive workshops in Prague on December 11 and 12, 2025. The workshops will be interpreted into Czech for participants.
December 11, 2025 Mediation with Empathy - a full-day practical workshop on mediation techniques according to NVC.
December 12, 2025 The Path of Kindness to Yourself — (Not Just) NeedbasedEating - a half-day practical workshop focused on the personal integration of NVC principles into the relationship with the body.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is an approach based on empathy, respect, and authentic dialogue. It was created by psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). NVC helps us better understand ourselves and others, recognize our needs, and communicate in a way that promotes understanding and cooperation instead of conflict. This approach is used in personal life, at work, in schools, and in communities around the world.
Liv Larsson, a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication since 2002, provides practical training based on NVC principles.
LIV LARSSON
Lecturer, mediator, and guide to the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Listen to the podcast "Mediation with Nonviolent Communication" with Liv Larsson:
Liv Larsson has been working in the field of communication, education, mediation, and personal development for more than three decades. She has been a certified trainer at the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2002 and has been developing the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) since 1992. She is the author of more than 20 books on communication, emotions, and interpersonal relationships, and she also creates so-called maps—original visual tools that help to better understand a person's inner world and their relationship to their surroundings.
In her work, she combines clarity and empathy, theory and practical experience, creating space for genuine listening and understanding. She focuses on supporting people and organizations in situations where tension or conflict arises, and through NVC, she helps find paths to respectful and sustainable solutions.
As a mediator, she works in conflicts between communities and industries, such as between the indigenous Sami people and mining and forestry companies in Scandinavia. Liv is also known for her approach to emotions such as shame, vulnerability, and guilt, which she sees as a path to authentic contact and understanding.
She draws inspiration from the simplicity of life in northern Sweden, where she lives in the middle of the forest. The nature, tranquility, and presence she finds there are reflected in her style of work—kind, direct, and deeply human.
