Welcome! This site aims at providing information about NonViolent Communication (NVC), in particular in the Netherlands, and about my own activities in this area. I hope you will find here information useful for you!!! The content is available in English, French or Dutch.

Bienvenue! Ce site a pour mission de vous informer sur la Communication NonViolente (CNV), en particulier aux Pays-Bas, ainsi que sur mes propres activités dans ce domaine. J’espère que vous y trouverez des informations qui vous soient utiles !!! Le contenu est disponible en anglais, français et néerlandais.

Welkom! Met deze website wil ik je graag over Geweldloze Communicatie (GC) informeren, in het bijzonder in Nederland, en ook over mijn eigen activiteiten rondom GC. Ik hoop, dat je informatie zal vinden, wat voor jou nuttig is!!! Het inhoud is in het Engels, Frans en Nederlands beschikbaar.

For more information / pour plus d’information / wil je meer informatie : contact@giralaine.com

Find an overview of NVC-related activities in the Netherlands by certified or non-certified, but always enthusiastic trainers at http://www.geweldlozecommunicatie.org/

INTERNATIONAL TRAINING TIPS (updated 27/11/11) trainings given in English in the Netherlands or “closeby”

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9-10 December, 2011: Embracing difficult conversations in your workplace - Hoorneboeg, Hilversum (NL) with Ike Lasater (USA).

Learn to navigate the conversations you dread more effectively and with more satisfaction -- whether these are with your boss, your reports, clients, investors, etc.
Bring your most difficult conversation to learn from.  We will go through it together.  At the end of the workshop, you will be looking forward to the conversation.
Ike Lasater is co-author of Words That Work in Business: a Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace.
Find more details here.

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14-15 January, 2012: Workshop NVC dance floors with Bridget Belgrave, in Eindhoven

- Deepen your understanding and experience of NVC
- Explore your own life situation on an NVC Dance Floor
- Learn about a methodology you can use in your practice group
- Get to know 3 of the NVC Dance Floors

1) The Self Empathy Dance: For shifting from your judgmental mind to your authentic self, from swirling emotions to feeling centred, from stuckness to solutions.
2) The Anger/Shame Dance: For transforming a surge of anger and/or guilt, shame or depression, into self-connection and empowerment.
3) The 13 Step Dance: For trying out a conversation that you are avoiding, or re-visiting one that went badly wrong to explore how it could have been different.
The early bird discount ends on December 1st.

More information at www.NvcDanceFloors.com

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April 11-20, 2012: INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE TRAINING - Germany – Reimlingen, with John Kinyon, Klaus Karstädt and Marianne Göthlin

This International Intensive Training (IIT) is a 9-day, Nonviolent Communication “immersion experience.” It is a residential workshop led by a team of experienced CNVC certified trainers. The purpose of this IIT training is to offer people the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop Nonviolent Communication knowledge, skills and consciousness.

Find more details at www.cnvc.org/germany-april-2012-iit

Early bird discount deadline: January 11, 2012.

TRAININGS MEDIATION WITH NVC

• in the Netherlands

- GC mediation Jaaropleiding – Hilversum – with Christiaan Zandt and Jan van Koert (more information here).

• in France

The “Ecole des Médiateurs CNV” organises trainings for lawyers, practicing mediators and everyone who has an interest in learning mediation skills in combination with the NVC consciousness. Find more details and their programme here.