The Center for Nonviolent Communication
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.
Their mission is to contribute to this vision by facilitating the creation of life-serving systems within ourselves, interpersonally, and within organizations. We do this by living and teaching Nonviolent Communication.
The aim of CNVC is to provide ideas, experience, and support for the living of Nonviolent Communication in community. This is accomplished by providing Nonviolent Communication training, materials, organizational consulting, and projects that develop harmonious and effective relationships.
In addition to groups across the U.S., CNVC now has regional teams of trainers and organizers in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Western Europe, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, and several countries in Latin America. By 1998 the CNVC team in the former Yugoslavia alone, had trained over 600 hundred teachers who taught over 12,000 students and parents, and now has developed curriculum materials for use with children from kindergarten through high school.
There are more than 200 CNVC-certified trainers throughout the world and estimate that, in each of the past two years, over 250,000 people have received training in NVC in a multitude of countries, cultures, and languages. Many thousands more people have informally shared what they have learned, thus enhancing the lives of their families, workplaces, and communities.
