Immersion & Trainer Development Program

NVC Immersion & Trainer Development Program -An In-Depth Learning Experience. – Online

Are you called to go deeper?

• Do you share in the passion for NVC?
• Would you like to deepen your NVC consciousness and skills?
• Are you looking for personal transformation?
• Are you facilitating NVC groups or classes?
• Would you like to share NVC by facilitating groups or classes?
• Would you like to develop or expand skills as a facilitator?

Announcing the fourteenth year of the NVC Trainer Development Program with Kathy Ziola.

Nine months duration – Begins October 3-4, 2026.

Interviews and Registration to be completed by Sept. 1, 2026. If you discover this after that date, please call Kathy immediately.

Includes: Nine two-day weekend trainings, 9 two-hour live online classes, 8 private coaching sessions, and ongoing buddy support. Assisting for or reviewing as a participant in one online training series or in person weekend training when available is also included. If all components of this program are completed it will be 24 days of training.

Intention – to support individuals in deeply integrating NVC personally. Facilitate trainer development on multiple levels as some participants move toward effectively sharing NVC and/or becoming a certified trainer. If you are not interested in becoming a facilitator or trainer, this program will serve you in deeply integrating the consciousness and skills through the immersion experience and individualized attention to your goals.

Purposes –

Provide a supportive and nourishing learning environment.

Develop and support NVC consciousness and skills within each participant.

Provide information, resources and learning experiences to support trainer development

Support the development and expansion of the quality of deep presence and personal capacity for meeting life’s challenges with courage and peace.

Give feedback and coaching in group and one on one settings.

Explore, process, and practice topics, skills, and consciousness relevant to NVC integration and facilitation

Intended Outcomes

• Clarity and integration of Key distinctions
• Increased embodiment of NVC consciousness & skills
• Fluency and greater ease in naturally using NVC
• Supported experience in presenting NVC with feedback and coaching
• Increased capacity for presence and self-awareness when reactivity arises
• Skill in facilitating an active group
• Development of your learning materials and exercises
• If you want to facilitate, you will have support in creating a plan for sharing NVC that is congruent with your skill level and both challenges you and supports your success
• You will have experienced personal process and healing using NVC
• You will have experience in facilitating individual process with co-participants
• Confidence in leading practice groups and presenting basic NVC classes if desired
• Personal integration of NVC consciousness and skills for life and for the important foundations of becoming a facilitator or trainer in NVC

Commitment

• Full participation in weekend trainings, conference calls and individual coaching sessions to the best of your ability. This serves you in your learning, and the group and me in having continuity and ease in the learning and group experiences.
• Homework completion between sessions supports your practice and integration
• Regular weekly meetings with a buddy for consistent mutual support, practice, and empathy via phone, video call, or in person
• Assisting a Level I or II training offered by Communication Works during the 9 month period, if you so choose.
• Tuition investment is $6,900 or $7,200 if credit card is used. This will shift if we decide to meet in person for any retreat. Payment plans are available.

Required Pre-Requisite –

• Level I Compassionate Communication Foundations Trainings, or accepted equivalent. Check with Kathy if you have other previous training.
• See the calendar page for upcoming trainings

Helpful Experience (not required)

• Participation in an NVC practice group or integration and practice series
• Participation in one NVC retreat experience of 4-7 days or an IIT (International Intensive Training from the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
• Intention to share/teach NVC is optional

Intended Schedule: Times listed in Colorado Mountain Time

This program is in American time zones. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for other time zones around the world unless you are honestly a real night owl or a full day’s time difference. It is intended to be attended and participated in online live, not by recordings.

Weekends run Saturdays 8:30 am to 7-7:30pm Colorado time zone, with healthy breaks.

Sundays run 8:30am to between 4:30pm and 5:30pm

Monthly Conference calls are 2 hours duration on a Monday evening 6-8pm – 1x/month, 2x in November

Retreat Weekends Monthly 2 hour Sessions

Retreats will be held full days Saturdays and Sundays.

It is best to consider these weekends as retreats where you make no other commitments.

If your interest is piqued, please contact me to receive more details and set an interview appointment to explore whether this is the program for you. 970-216-8597.

Registration for this program is by interview. Interviews are being held now.

Requested completion of registrations is by September 1, 2026. Contact me immediately if you discover this after that date.

Warmest Regards,

Kathy

Kathy Ziola, MA, Center for Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer. My journey has included thirty-five years of deep exploration of relationship, self-awareness, healing arts, spirituality and communication. NVC trainer training includes Bay Area NVC’s Leadership Program in 2006, the Training of Trainer Program in 2009, Making Collaboration Real Trainings in 2010 and 2011, study with Marshall Rosenberg in 2009, and extensive work with the NVC Training Institute (Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Wes Taylor, Towe Widstrand) for three years. I have organized and facilitated NVC training for twenty one years. I created this program in 2011 and this coming year will be its 13th year. I have organized and facilitated workshops and retreats in a variety of settings over the past 40 years. These have included the areas of stress management, peer counseling training, breath work, loving relationships, women’s retreats, yoga, Reiki, and couples’ work. I currently provide training, coaching and psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families, organizations and businesses. It is my passion to support others in having extraordinary relationships based on presence, honesty and compassion.

Education: CNVC Certified Trainer since 2009. MA Agency Counseling with Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Northern Colorado. BS Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University.

Participant Comments:

“I worked as a Software Engineer at Google for 17 years. That’s a culture where an intellectual, data-driven approach to every problem is always the first impulse. When I took Kathy’s introductory classes, I started using NVC at work every single day. When a culture explicitly discourages feelings and glorifies suppressing needs, recognizing and acknowledging those feelings and needs becomes even more important. The skills I learned from Kathy helped me understand the irrational, intense, deeply human moments that cropped up all the time, moments I had always found unnerving and confusing before. And I was able to respond to them with empathy and openness, which I think made the experience more enjoyable and authentic for everyone. Including me.” JR – Immersion Program Graduate

“Kathy is by far the best teacher, facilitator, and coach that I have ever learned from. I am a professional educator with a master’s degree and over 15 years of teaching experience. I have sat in countless graduate classes and professional development workshops about the art of teaching. Kathy’s skill set is truly extraordinary and remains unparalleled in my own experience. She makes online learning intimate and involved. She is gentle and compassionate, while simultaneously maintaining high expectations and strong boundaries on behalf of the group. I have learned so much from Kathy about how to be a fully alive human being and witnessing her at work is the privilege of experiencing a master artisan. If you are searching for deep transformation, or a profoundly educational experience, you are in the right place!” Gwen Tenney – Program Graduate

“I’m starting to get a feel for what is possible in terms of skill, and how much good can be put into the world. NVC has helped me connect deeply with myself and understand and have compassion for myself in ways I’d previously been unable to, because I didn’t have the tools or the support. I’m finding that my energy and outlook and overall presence have changed, and I’m finding myself inspiring others and showing them what’s possible, without deliberately meaning to. This way of being in the world is so deeply resonant for me, and I’m excited to connect with others who feel the same and honored to have the opportunity to deepen my skills, share them, and live NVC.” Heather Beaver – Program Graduate

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“Kathy’s 9 month course is truly a gift. It has changed my life in ways I couldn’t even imagine. Daily I use the skills she taught us from difficult business conversation, to friends and family, to relationships. Kathy herself is extraordinary and authentic in her desire to give to you all her knowledge to help you be the best you, you can be. She is caring and kind and creates a safe space to explore the breakthroughs (and there will be breakthroughs). Before her course I found myself avoiding life in many ways and feeling hurt and disappointment, after her course I feel I not only have the tools, but I embody them. The course is truly transformational.” Lauren 2018

“Things i have learned in the program I am excited about:

How to give empathy

How to develop a teaching program

How to work through fears and blockages

How to heal old relationship wounds with people who aren’t there

How to be transparent and hold integrity as a teacher

How to accept myself more deeply

How NVC consciousness feels

How to be the teacher and be friends with students in a way that feels right

How to empower people of all levels of experience in the subject i’m teaching, and how to accept beginners

How to structure an NVC class

How to facilitate NVC

A deeper understanding of Presence

What has contributed most to my learning is: acceptance, fun, clarity, continuity of the monthly weekends, Kathy’s experience teaching and coaching, working through deeper aspects of NVC such as healing old wounds and the living energy of needs and the presence work.” Rev Nadia Mirren

“My learning was well supported by the safety and atmosphere of trust that Kathy created. In that closely held container of trust and loving support, I became able to relax, acknowledge my fears of exposure, become vulnerable and be able to share in an environment that allowed me to be myself as totally and completely as possible.” Participant 2014 C. V.

“I feel much happier about my spiritual life and my ministry because of this work, and it helped me to clarify how I wanted to minister and be with people.”

“What I enjoyed most was…

The bonding and the connection that the group went through — the laughter, the tears, the intimacy. I think we really went through something beautiful and truly got to be ourselves. I think that’s what the most enjoyable part was — that this was a place where we could be completely ourselves.”

“I also appreciated the specificity of the processes we went through. In other words, I really felt awed and impressed that the processes were so clear and could elicit so much depth and power. This met a great need in me for clarity that assisted my growth and learning. I will always think about how to bring clarity into my teaching processes.” Rev. Timothy Mirren