Toscana I.
 
May 29, Thursday
15:30 – 16:45
Budapest (CEST)

Nonviolent Communication – Reimagined

IEC Conference: 2025

Nonviolent Communication – Reimagined: A Path to Authentic Connection

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a highly practical communication approach. Starting off as a communication method, NVC has shown to be ba developmental practice that transforms not only how we speak and relate, but also how we perceive and integrate our experiences. This session explores NVC through the lens of Integral Theory, highlighting how it can serve as a bridge between inner transformation and outer change. We will examine:

– How communication both reflects and reshapes our inner world, relationships, culture, and social systems.

– NVC as a way to bridge different perspectives.

Through real-life examples, and interactive reflection, this session invites us move beyond mechanical applications of NVC and into a deeper embodied awareness of how language can be a vehicle for personal and collective transformation.  The session combines simple theory, and experiential exercises to explore how NVC can be a vehicle for both personal and collective evolution. Participants will leave with a deeper awareness of how language can either reinforce old paradigms or serve as a bridge to higher levels of consciousness and connection.

 

LARSSON, Liv

Sweden

Liv Larsson is a mediator, an international trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Author of 24 books on communication, conflict and more.  Liv resides in northern Sweden where one focus area is mediating conflicts between the indigenous group of Scandinavia, the Sami, and forest and mining companies. She has trained with the founder of Stages theory, Terri O´Fallon. Holding a masters degree in Creative writing and Literature she loves writing. She works internationally with training in NVC, mediation, shame work and more. She has developed different maps to use in finding how our inner terrain unfolds in connection with the outside world.