Liv Larsson – NVC Mediation Training, Conflict – A Helping Hand (5 Days)


Dates and Times

  •  August 27, 2025 - August 31, 2025
     9:00 am - 6:00 pm

We are delighted to announce Liv Larsson, international mediator, author of over 20 communication and mediation books, and Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is coming to Australia and offering her 5-Day Mediation Training in Australia.

About this Training:
These 5 days will provide a unique opportunity to learn skills that facilitate dialogue, explore and resolve in-depth conflict, and demonstrate how you can handle the challenges that conflict brings. It is a chance to study with a highly experienced international mediator who bases her work in Nonviolent Communication.

Mediation Focused on Connection and Needs:
When we focus on the solutions of a conflict, it often leads to stronger positioning by the parties of the conflict. Mediation based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) focuses on creating connection first, and trusts that when the parties are connected, they will find solutions that work for them. By focusing on the needs that are not met, it creates the necessary space for new solutions to arise from the grounding and understanding of compassionate connection.

The focus on listening to a person’s needs in a conflict is something a mediator can practice and learn. It is not just based on intuition or empathy, but also on creating a frame-work for understanding between the parties.

“Hands on training”
Mediation can be seen as a way to lend a helping hand; to lend the conflicting parties your own communication skills. It is not “taking over” the conflict, but it is a way to support the parties in dealing with tough dilemmas, helping them find their own solution.

In this intensive “hands-on training” you will have a lot of opportunity to learn, experience and practice acting as a third party in formal and informal mediation environments. You will have the opportunity to test your communication skills, identifying areas where you need to practice, gain clarity or grow empathy.

 

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Liv Larsson – Mediating Difficult Workplace Conversations (2 Days)


Dates and Times

  •  September 2, 2025 - September 3, 2025
     9:00 am - 6:00 pm

We are delighted to announce Liv Larsson, international mediator, author of over 20 communication and mediation books, and Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is coming to Australia and offering her 2-Day Mediating Difficult Workplace Conversations Training in Australia.

Liv brings an emphasis on creating connection, building trust and the importance of unseen factors in navigating this territory and supports us to build trust rather than eroding it.

“Hands on training”

Mediation difficult conversations between team members is a necessary and high-level skill Leadership skills that gives reassurance and confidence to both you and your teams.

It gives you the capacity to lend a helping hand to conflicting parties by lending your own communication skills. It is not “taking over” the conflict, but is a way to support the parties in dealing with tough dilemmas, helping them find their own solutions forward.

In this “hands-on training” you will have a lot of opportunity to learn, experience and practice both being in difficult conversations and acting as a third party in informal mediation environments. You will have the opportunity to test your communication skills, identifying areas where you need to practice, gain clarity or grow empathy.

This Training is For:
  • Experienced Leaders
  • HR Management
  • Emerging Leaders
  • Business Owners
  • Anyone wanting to vastly improve their communication capacity.

Scholarships:

It is our intention to make this training accessible and there are a limited number of scholarships available. Please email Shari on shari@communicationgroup.com.au and we will forward you the scholarship outline and application form.

 

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Liv Larsson – Embracing Guilt and Shame – Reclaiming Power and Choice (3 Days)


Dates and Times

  •  September 5, 2025 - September 7, 2025
     9:00 am - 6:00 pm

We are delighted to announce Liv Larsson, international mediator, author of over 20 communication and mediation books, and Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is coming to Australia and offering her 5-Day Mediation Training in Australia.

About this Training:
Many of us use unnecessary energy to get rid of guilt and shame instead of getting to the core of it in a way that will transform it. In this Training you have the chance to explore the needs behind shame and how to embrace and befriend it.

We will discover how shame and guilt make communication a challenge and how we can turn that around and how to instead make those emotions a support in our connection with others and ourselves. We will work with concrete examples of where shame and guilt affect our life in unwanted ways. Embracing shame and guilt will give us better access to our sensitivity and empathy. We will also take a look at how to connect with others when they are experiencing anger, guilt and shame.

This workshop brings together the interconnectedness of these life serving qualities of Shame and Guilt and Vulnerability and Power. They help us access our super-ability to Connect with Life.

Take part of this extraordinary training and reclaim power and choice!

What will you learn?

  • To access vulnerability, sensitivity and empathy without giving up on your sense of power or choice.
  • To use the Compass of Needs to understand when you are wasting energy in avoiding shame and how to instead return to needs again.
  • You will get an understanding of how our society and culture influences our feelings of shame and guilt.
  • Hands – on strategies on how you as an individual can transform shame, guilt and anger into feelings that are more directly connected to life.
  • Ideas of how to connect with others when they are avoiding shame by attacking others, uses self blame, anger, withdrawing or rebelling.

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Liv Larsson and Shari Elle – Living NVC Retreat & Training (5 Days)


Dates and Times

  •  September 17, 2025 - September 21, 2025
     9:00 am - 6:00 pm

This retreat is a living smorgasbord of all that Liv and Shari have to offer. It is the chance to learn and play in a field of giraffes for 5 days, and see what delights and learnings and self discoveries are on offer within our vast Treasure Boxes – over 24 years each of NVC and so much more! These 5 days will be Living NVC in Action, and it will all be co-designed by you!

It’s sure to be deep learning and transformation!!!

Together we will each get clear on what our intentions and dreams are for this retreat, and what we would love, and then we will move with Life and allow the needs and requests arising to guide what is shared. Nothing is off the table.

Together, Liv and Shari have over 45 years of shared, integrated NVC experience. We have both run many various extended NVC programs and will have it all available for you to draw on through these 5 days.

We predict this will be a deep, transformative, enlightening and joyful NVC immersion!

We are 2 minutes walk to the beach and pool, and there is a spa in the venue. There may also be optional activities in the evenings like dinner out (or in), movie nights with ice creams and popcorn, and of course, some relaxation time (if that’s what the group wants!). Or of course you can take quiet time for yourself.

This is a non residential retreat however there will be limited accommodation offered at the venue.

 

Some of what could be covered and requested:

  • Shame and Vulnerability
  • Mediating real life conflict
  • Boundaries – why they matter and how to live them – applying NVC.
  • Colloquial NVC including the importance of inner alignment
  • Using NVC from the fullness of needs
  • The Art of Making Powerful Requests
  • Being with someone else when they are Angry
  • Anything that is within any of Liv’s many books, mediation trainings or extended programs (that is just about everything!)
  • Anything within Shari’s Peer Leadership or Masters Program (that is just about everything!)
  • And all the lived experience we each bring in the group!

Objectives of the training:

  • To deepen in LIVED NVC embodiment
  • To practice and apply NVC skills including in real time
  • To listen to the life within us
  • To do some deep and life changing processes and shift deep patterns in our life
  • To build confidence in your NVC experience, including difficult conversations
  • To play, have fun, be spontaneous, and deepen in our trust and embracing of LIFE… with a remarkable group of NVC friends including Shari and Liv!

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