NVC certification Switzerland

Willkommen in der GFK-Community

Wir sind ein Kreis von Assessor:innen und Mentor:innen der Gewaltfreien Kommunikation (GFK), die Menschen auf dem Weg zur CNVC-Zertifizierung begleiten – und alle, die GFK tiefer leben und in einer lebendigen Gemeinschaft teilen möchten.

Unsere Mentoring- und Assessment-Tage schaffen Räume für Wachstum, Verbindung und gemeinsames Lernen. Dabei gestalten wir unser Angebot frei und offen, im Einklang mit den aktuellen Lebensrealitäten und Entwicklungszielen unserer Teilnehmenden – stets auf Basis der GFK-Haltung und der Richtlinien des CPP für Kandidat:innen.

Gemeinsam möchten wir eine Gemeinschaft bieten, in der GFK gelebt und weiterentwickelt wird. Unsere Vision ist, dass Menschen auf dem Weg zur Zertifizierung authentisch sich verbindend in dieser Gemeinschaft ankommen und dies gemeinsam, durch das Assessment, gefeiert werden kann.

Du bist herzlich eingeladen, Teil dieser wachsenden GFK-Community zu werden – mit oder ohne Zertifizierungswunsch

The team

Der Kreis der einladenden und unterstützenden TrainerInnen der deutsch sprechenden Schweiz, in der Begleitung von Menschen auf dem Weg zur Zertifizierung:

Benedikt Loser (Assessor), Patricia Walker (Assessorin), Lorenz Baumgarten (Assessor in Training), Michael Dillo (Mentor), Barbara Köhler (Mentorin)

contacts

If you want to contact us, send us an email or call one of us, we will be happy to answer your questions.

Michael Dillo​

I was born in Hanover in 1958; I have lived in Switzerland since 1992. I am the father of a grown son.

Until I was 40, I worked exclusively as a civil engineer, although I knew from the first day of my studies that this was not "my" path. In 1997 I attended a first seminar with Marshall B. Rosenberg and after three days I felt that I had experienced something there that would change my life. My intuition did not deceive me - I may have lost sight of Marshall and the GFK at first, but not from my heart.

On the way, I lost my fear of changing my job through my involvement with NVC. In the meantime I have worked as a teacher at a free school, as a dishwasher, assistant cook and cleaner in the hotel, as a lecturer at universities, as a translator for Junfermann Verlag and much more. Nonviolent communication runs like a red thread through my life. I was certified as a trainer by CNVC a good 10 years ago. I like to live and share NVC with people who invite me because they want to strengthen liveliness, lightness and joy in their lives.

Contact

Michael Dillo
open spaces, Niklaus-Konradstrasse 8, CH – 4500 Solothurn
Tel.: 00 41 (0)32 625 75 84 or mobile: 00 41 (0)79 743 77 63
info@frei-raeume.ch
www.frei-raeume.ch

Benedict Loser

Mehr als zwanzig Jahre in technischen Projekten haben mir zutiefst bewusst gemacht, dass kein Projekt jemals aus technischen Gründen scheitert oder scheitern wird, sondern immer daran, wie Menschen miteinander umgehen, wie sie sich unter Druck verhalten. Nach mehr als 15 Jahren Forschung habe ich in der GFK einen Ansatz gefunden und vertieft, wie ich ehrlich und furchtlos unter Druck in Verbindung bleiben kann und in der Lage bin, nachhaltige Lösungen zu finden, die allen Beteiligten dienen – weit jenseits von Kompromissen. Jahrelangen Studien und entsprechenden Abschlüssen in Erwachsenenbildung, Trainingsgestaltung und -durchführung, Psychologie, Neurowissenschaften und Coaching führten mich 2012 zum Vollzeittrainer, Moderator und Coach. Ich arbeite mit Einzelpersonen, Teams und Organisationen in Settings von eins-zu-eins bis eins-zu-hunderten, hauptsächlich in ganz Europa.

I see myself as a sounding board and catalyst that supports individuals to self-reflect and thereby gain clarity and growth as I believe in outside inspiration that triggers overcoming personal limitations in core beliefs which is liberating.

Contact

Benedict Loser
Focus Empathy GmbH, Wolfgrabenstrasse 1a, CH – 8135 Langnau am Albis
Phone mobile: 00 41 (0)79 334 96 84
benedikt@fokus-empathie.ch
https://fokus-empathie.com

Patricia Walker

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Nachdem mich meine Tätigkeit als Artdirector in der Werbung nicht mehr erfüllt hat, kam ich 2009 mit der Gewaltfreien Kommunikation in Kontakt und schlug einen radikal anderen Weg ein. Ich lernte, eine aufrichtige Verbindung zu mir selbst und meinen Mitmenschen herzustellen und die Verantwortung für mein Fühlen, mein Denken und Handeln zu übernehmen. Die Kraft und Klarheit, die in mir wuchs, hat mich zutiefst überzeugt und hilft mir seither, mein volles Potenzial zu leben und meiner Bestimmung zu folgen.

Als Coach, Facilitator, Mediatorin und Seminarleiterin durfte ich seitdem hunderte von Menschen für die gewaltfreie Haltung und Sprache sensibilisieren. Sie erleben dadurch mehr Klarheit in Konflikten, stärken ihre zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen und gewinnen eine tiefere innere Ruhe.

Für ein vertieftes psychologisches Verständnis rund um Konflikte, den Umgang mit Macht und Rang sowie Spannungsfeldern in Systemen, habe ich zusätzlich den Ansatz der prozessorientierten Psychologie nach Arnold Mindell, das integrale Coaching, das NLP sowie das systemische Familienaufstellen integriert.

Die grösste Wirksamkeit in Spannungsfeldern sehe ich darin, in den Moment zu verlangsamen und Bewusstheit dafür zu schaffen: Was geschieht gerade jetzt und was will geschehen.

Contact

Patricia Walker
Focus Empathy GmbH, Wolfgrabenstrasse 1a, CH – 8135 Langnau am Albis
Phone mobile: 00 41 (0)78 719 78 82
patricia@fokus-empathie.ch
https://fokus-empathie.com

Barbara Koehler

Contact

Barbara Koehler
Hermann-Mattern-Strasse 67, D-34134 Kassel
Phone: 00 49 (0)561 - 4009940
info@achtsame-sprache.de
www.achtsame-sprache.de

Lorenz Baumgarten

Contact

Lorenz Baumgarten
Nonnenstr. 21a / App. 224, D – 04229 Leipzig
Tel: +49 176 84814648
lobaumgarten@gmail.com

Offers

The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) offers the possibility of certification as a trainer for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).

With the coach certification path, CNVC aims to achieve the following two goals:

• Den Aufbau einer Gemeinschaft von Trainern und Trainerinnen, die mit dem CNVC zusammen daran arbeiten wollen, die Vision von einer Welt, in der die Bedürfnisse aller zählen, Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.
• Quality assurance in the sense that NVC is passed on to future generations in a way that preserves and protects the integrity of the process.

The certification process is designed to help coach candidates do the following:

• personal growth
• Mutual support
• Help fulfill CNVC's vision
• Liaison with CNVC and the international trainer community

Certification is not training as it is commonly understood. It is a path of gradual growth into an attitude of nonviolence that takes at least 3-6 years.

Introduction and idea of the certification process - link to CNVC

Sequence

Basically, the process is as follows:

1. Contacting an assessor of your choice. Registration as a coach candidate
2. Participation in mentoring and assessment days
3. Participate in an IIT
4. Parallel to 2 and 3: individually designed learning process accompanied by the assessor, possibly supplemented and supported by mentoring by an experienced CNVC trainer
5. Pre-assessment after submission of all documents
6. Final assessment, usually as part of mentoring and assessment days
7. Certification is published by CNVC

The CNVC has developed extensive documentation on the certification process. There you will find detailed information on the design of the process and valuable suggestions that can support you on your way and in your development. Please read these documents carefully before contacting an assessor.

Link to the CPP (Certification Preparation Packet), the detailed description of the certification process, German

Wesentliche Merkmale des Prozesses

individual design

If you decide to become a CNVC certified trainer, you have the opportunity and also the challenge to structure and design the learning path for yourself within certain framework conditions and criteria and in consultation with your assessor. Depending on your educational background from previous professional activities, experience and upcoming development steps, you can set different priorities and choose a pace that suits you. It is also possible to pause in the process if other areas in your life have priority at the moment. So there is no set plan, but actually as many ways as there are candidates. The path is supported by a number of formal criteria that candidates and assessors use to orient themselves.

criteria

• min. 50 training days with certified trainers (incl. an IIT of at least 9 days and a multi-part multi-day group, e.g. annual group, basic training). A training day comprises at least 6 hours of working time and cannot be made up of practice evenings.
• Written letter of intent in which you describe your motivation for the certification
• 10 trainer feedbacks, at least 3 of them from cert. trainers, with their own reflection
  A rich feedback culture is a helpful tool for us to grow together as a community and to maintain communication that supports us in development.
  We assessors ask that so-called growing edges are also named in the feedback. These are fields in which growth is possible and sensible.
  Candidates are invited to reflect on the feedback received and to express what they learn or have learned from it.
  We are very grateful when everyone who provides feedback contributes to this culture and supports growth and mutual advancement.
  In the download area there is a template as a suggestion for the feedback.
• 10 feedbacks from participants from their own courses, with their own reflections
  In the download area there is a template as a suggestion for the feedback.
•  Assistance to at least 3 different trainers
• Self-reflections in the form of diary entries that go over a period of at least 6 months
• If necessary, work samples through video or audio recordings
• Own training activity for at least one year, eg by offering own exercise groups and seminars

stations along the way

• Registration – Requirements for registration are at least 20 course days, a recommendation by a cert. trainer / a cert. trainer and a written letter of intent. Please contact the assessor of your choice and arrange an interview. This assessor will accompany you throughout your process.
• Mentoring and assessment days – We offer these days for a more personal accompaniment, for feedback and to facilitate networking among the candidates. We ask our candidates to take part in such training for the accompanying assessor team at least twice during the course of the certification process.
• pre-assessment – If you and your assessor agree that your certification process can be completed, send all the documents required for the preassessment to your assessor. You will then go through these documents together in an intensive discussion and discuss whether the assessment is the last step.
• Assessment – Final meeting with the selected assessor team, usually within the framework of assessment and mentoring days, to mutually agree and celebrate the decision to certify.

Recommendation by mutual agreement

The decision on certification is made in mutual agreement between you as a candidate and your assessment team. In addition to fulfilling the formal criteria, as presented above, and the assessment by the accompanying assessor, your own conviction and willingness to work as a certified trainer now also plays an important role. This conviction slowly arises as you grow into the attitude of Nonviolent Communication, until it can be felt and becomes clear as the feeling: NOW is the time. How that feels for each and every individual is very different, but what we have in common is - from our perception - an inner serenity, calm and gratitude, a sense of place in a world full of faith and trust in oneself and others.

community

In order to walk this path, it makes sense to have companions who support each other, give each other honest feedback and nurture one another. To realize NVC's vision - to create a world where everyone's needs matter - we need nourishment along the way. The exchange among each other and the development and maintenance of an honest and empathetic network are indispensable. As a candidate, you are called upon to create your own network or to join other existing groups.
Here, too, the forms are not fixed, but depend on what you are looking for, building and maintaining.
Examples of this are: regular exercise group for oneself, belonging to a local network, to a DACH group, NVC shared accommodation, trainer meetings, intervision group with regular meetings, ...

mentorship

In order to use the certification process intensively as a growth path and to shape it in all its liveliness and individuality, it can be helpful to look for a mentor who accompanies you on this path and can give feedback and suggestions over a longer period of time. This can be done regularly or as needed. As a mentor, you can get a cert. trainer/ a cert. Look for a trainer of your choice or arrange a mentoring agreement with one of the assessors.

Here you will find a list of German-speaking CNVC trainers who are willing to support candidates in the certification process as mentors.

vitality of the process

Just as the process can be made alive for each and every individual, the whole process is also alive in the structure of the CNVC. That means, through learning with the candidates, through reflection in the national and international assessor team, in exchange with the CNVC board and with the CNVC trainer community, we are constantly changing and developing the certification process.

Overview of the financial contribution for certification

The following applies to candidates in German-speaking Switzerland:

250 CHF - Registration
500 CHF – pre-assessment
500 CHF – Assessment
250 $  – Certification contribution to the CNVC

approx. 450 – 500 CHF – Participation in mentoring/assessment days
approx. 3'000 $  – Participation in an IIT (without travel and accommodation)

This cost structure was decided by the German-speaking team of assessors. It differs from the information given in the CNVC's CPP (Certification Preparation Packet) and takes into account the fact that the certification process in German-speaking countries takes place in teams and is completed with a group assessment process lasting several days.

After certification:

CNVC requests an annual trainer contribution to also provide financial support to CNVC, the local NVC community, or both. CNVC would like to receive the amount that each Trainer would like to give for themselves with joy in partnering with CNVC and in gratitude for the work Marshall has done for us and the world.

Mentoring and assessment days

These days are an offer for candidates on the path to certification by the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and for people who are still considering it.

The motivation for your participation can be:

• find out where you are in the certification process
• Get feedback from participants and/or assessors
• share your understanding of being a trainer, also in relation to CNVC
• meet other people who are also in the certification process
• want to make connections and learn new things in this community
• complete the certification process during these days (a recommendation will be made to the center)

The inviting trainers offer a framework with time windows for offers by the participants. The participants are invited to use and design individual time windows, for example to show themselves with their own offers and to try out the NVC. Trainers are present at the various offers for feedback and direct discussions. We inviting trainers do not offer workshops.

We wish that whoever participates before that CPP has read.

These days can be understood as mentoring in the certification process. Participants receive a course certificate for 2.5 course days with certified trainers.

For questions or clarifications please contact one of us.

We are pleased to invite you to these days.

Heartfelt

Michael, Benedikt, Patricia, Barbara und Lorenz

Details on M+A days of the team

These days are an offer for candidates on the path to certification by the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and for people who are still considering it.

We, the inviting trainers (Michael Dillo, Benedikt Loser, Patricia Walker, Barbara Köhler, Rolf Bänteli), invite all people who are on the move with NVC and have already decided on the CNVC certification path, as well as those who who are still about to make a decision and would like to get impressions and make contacts. We also invite CNVC-certified trainers who enjoy being there and who would like to help hold the space and make the diversity of NVC tangible through their presence on these days.

Idea and course of the days

The inviting trainers offer a framework with time windows for offers by the participants. The participants are invited to use and design individual time windows, for example to show themselves with their own offers and to try out the NVC. Trainers are present at the various offers for feedback and direct discussions.

We inviting trainers do not offer workshops (and we also ask any certified trainers present not to offer workshops).

These days can be understood as mentoring in the certification process. Participants receive a course certificate for 2.5 course days with certified trainers.

We expressly recommend and request participation for the entire duration.

What the inviters offer

We pay special attention to feedback with the intention of contributing to position determination. We pay attention to the criteria for certification.

We keep the space and framework for this so that experiences can be made, which can then be addressed in the feedback. This feedback can be given briefly in a larger group, but also much more deeply afterwards in a direct one-to-one exchange.

In challenging or deadlocked situations, we offer direct or indirect support to reconnect. We take care of the connection, in the way we know it in the sense and spirit of the NVC according to Marshall Rosenberg and would like to pass it on. This means that we also name and draw attention to when the connection is crumbling and how it could be restored.

Language

The participants should have the opportunity to express themselves in their preferred language. This potentially means that those with High German giraffe ears may not be able to fully understand Swiss dialect in every situation. We would like to offer "translation assistance", but we may not be able to guarantee it in every situation. To support an English (or other) speaking candidate, we encourage collusion in translation and the formation of small groups where English (or that language) is spoken.

premises

We have the entire Farenweid complex to ourselves, i.e. the pavilion as a plenary room, the villa with the various group rooms, the kitchen that can be used and the bedrooms, as well as the garden, the adjacent grove and the wider landscape around it. Flip chart and pin board are available.

Accommodation

The villa offers

– on the 1st floor 4 double rooms, 3 with double bed and 1 with two single beds,

- On the 2nd floor 1 small room with air bed, 2 single rooms, 1 room with a 1.40m wide bed and a reading/sitting area that can also accommodate an air bed.

In total, up to 13 people can stay in beds in the villa for a fee. In addition, any number of people can spend the night in the dormitory in the pavilion with their own mats and sleeping bags, without additional costs.

BnBs in Hirzel, youth hostels and hotels are also available in the area. Anyone who needs support can contact Benedikt Loser.

meals

In the kitchen in the villa, simple lunches and dinners are prepared for all participants. The kitchen is therefore not otherwise available for lunch and dinner.

Please note any food intolerances when registering.

Breakfast is provided on site for those staying at Villa der Farenweid and is included in the price.

getting there

The Farenweid can be reached with a 10-minute walk uphill over 40 meters (asphalt and cobblestone road) from the Hirzel Kirche post bus stop. Post bus line 150 runs from Horgen and Wädenswil - please note the timetable, as there are different routes and departure times depending on the day of the week and the time of day.

The Farenweid has some parking spaces directly in front of the house. There are even more parking spaces (free) at the Hirzel church.

Costs

Because we want everyone who would like to come to be able to come and not have to do without because of financial constraints, we do not charge fixed financial amounts, but guideline values. We are aware that we all have different financial means and would like to live in a community that carries. That is why everyone should give whatever financial amount they are willing and able to give. We'll probably have one on Saturday afternoon money dance do, and we trust that money will come together. 

With the money dance, the money should come together for the payment of a fees to the welcoming M&A team who Seminar house rent, the Overnight stays and des food.

The following amounts are ours Guide values – independent of the length of time spent on the M+A days. From 12 participants, the necessary and desired funds result from these guide values.

Data of the coming M+A days