Elevate Your Communication
Deepen Your Relationships
Fundamentals of
Compassionate Communication
Choose Your Learning Path!
At Your Own Pace With
Self-Study
Designed to optimize self-paced learning, the Fundamentals of Compassionate Communication online course guides you organically and comprehensively through the core elements of Nonviolent Communication.
Ten modules consisting of over 5 hours of video with skilled trainer, Jenna Card, hand-outs, and homework to support your learning.
See below for all the details about the Self-Study online course.
OR
Self-Study Plus
A Live
Study Group
Bring your questions, receive live coaching, and learn in community!
Study at your own pace and join the weekly Study Group Zoom sessions with skilled coach and trainer, Jenna Card.
The 8-session Autumn 2025 Study Group starts October 14th and meets weekly to December 9th. (no session November 11th)
Tuesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (PST)
Zoom sessions are recorded and available for the duration of the Study Group.
Do you want to learn foundational skills for creating more authenticity and ease in your close relationships?
Be able to look beyond challenging behaviors and connect with the humanity in those you care about most?
Cultivate a calm, joyful center from which to live life?
Fundamentals of Compassionate Communication
Self-Study
Fundamentals is a self-paced online course that provides you with the basic principles & practices of Compassionate Communication (Nonviolent Communication or NVC).
This 10-module course contains 28 digestible videos (5.5 hours total) consisting of lessons, guided practices and demonstrations. Each module also has handouts and a home practice to support your learning and integration.
Expertly guided by CNVC Certified NVC Trainer, Jenna Card, you’ll explore the simple, yet powerful NVC four-part model, core principles essential for cultivating compassion, and practices which deepen self-connection, empathy skills and confidence in navigating real-world conversations.
What you’ll learn:
The foundational concepts and skills of Nonviolent Communication using real-world examples
Practical and effective tools for self-connection and self-compassion
To move beyond unhelpful stories and judgments of yourself and others
Ways of communicating that create more understanding and connection
How to deepen your relationships through the power of empathy
Ideal for people who:
Are new to Nonviolent Communication
Have NVC experience and would like a fresh perspective
Are committed to progressing through the material in sequence as modules build on one another
Will take the time to do the guided exercises and home practices that support learning and integration
Want more fulfilling, authentic, compassionate connections
To participate, please signup for the Self-Study course (below) and register for the Study Group (here).
Note, if you already have access to the Self-Study course, all you need to do is join the Study Group.
This Study Group is offered in three pricing tiers to support participants of differing financial resources to participate. Thank you for contributing as much as you are able so that others may also join at reduced rates.
Supporter $340 USD
Sustainable $280 USD
Supported $140 USD
The 8-session Study Group starts October 14th and meets weekly to December 9th (no session on November 11th).
Tuesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (PST)
Zoom sessions will be recorded and made available for the duration of the Study Group.
Bring your questions, receive live coaching
and learn in community!
Join the Autumn 2025 Fundamentals Study Group!
Starting October 14th, we will meet weekly to support your progress through the Fundamentals of Compassionate Communication Self-Study online course.
Study the online course at your own pace and join us at the weekly Zoom sessions. No matter where you are in the course, you are encouraged to bring your questions, challenges, insights and successes!
There is magic in learning together!
The weekly Study Group sessions are hosted by CNVC Certified Trainer and Relationship Coach, Jenna Card.
What people have said about our live course…
Digital Course Format
This self-paced online course is laid out in 10 easy to navigate modules. Each module contains:
lesson videos with clear explanations of NVC concepts and examples from real life
exercises and worksheets that support you to explore and integrate the concepts
home practices for you to practice what you are learning and begin to bring the concepts into your everyday life
downloadable handouts that include key resources and worksheets to support your learning
The course platform is optimized for computer, tablet or smartphone access.
You have life-time* access to the course, with automatic access to any updates or additional material.
There are no course prerequisites, however, you may benefit from reading Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
* By “life-time”, we mean the life-time of the course, nor yours or ours. As this course is foundational to our work in Nonviolent Communication, we expect it to be available for a long time. If, for whatever reason, the course is retired, we promise that you will receive ample notice.
Completing this digital course qualifies you for registration in our “go deeper” Applied NVC Program!
More Than Just A Course
The Fundamentals digital course doesn’t just teach you the powerful foundation of Nonviolent Communication; it’s also designed to be a trusted resource you can return to anytime.
Self-Paced Course
Overview by Module:
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Welcome
Getting the Most From the Course
videos - 13 mins
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Introduction to NVC
What Motivates You?
videos - 24 minutes
Handouts & Home Practice
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Acknowledgment & Scope of This Lesson
Understanding Needs
The Nuances of Needs
Strategies for Finding Needs
videos - 36 min
Handouts and home practices
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What are Feelings?
Feelings As A Compass
NVC and Relational Neuroscience
Where Are We At & What’s Next
videos - 42 min
Handouts and home practices
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Cultivating Self Connection
Learning the Self Empathy Practice with Examples
Guided Self Empathy Practice
videos & audio - 49 min
Handouts and home practices
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The Art of Empathic Listening
Empathic Listening in Practice
The Gift of Empathy Buddies
videos - 46 min
Handouts and home practices
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Where Are We At & What’s Next
What Really Happened?
Asking For What You Need
videos - 37 min
Handouts and home practices
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Deepening Connection with NVC
Enriching Feedback
Reparative Apologies
Celebrating with Appreciation
videos - 39 min
Handouts and home practices
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NVC and Navigating Conflict
The Practice of Befriending Your Jackal
videos - 19 min
Handouts and home practices
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Review and Reflect
What Now?
videos - 13 min
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Digital course to learn the foundations of Nonviolent Communication.
FAQs
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While we all learn at our own pace — yay for a self-paced course! — we recommend setting aside between 1 to 3 hours per week for digesting the course content and engaging in the home practices.
If you are also participating in Guiding Community Q&A calls, then that is an additional hour every two weeks.
Practice makes progress and consistent practice makes consistent progress.. Our experience is that spending 15-20 minutes every few days to reflect, review and practice will amplify your learning and integration. -
Offering services in the digital space means our customers are all around the world. This also means our impact is global too, which we are thrilled by!
As a notable amount of our business expenses are billed in USD and many of our customers are USA based, it makes sense that we would offer our services in the corresponding currency.
As a Canadian, I am sensitive to the exchange rate disparity between CAD and USD. As such, I invite Canadian residents to use the code OHCANADA at checkout for an approximation of pricing in CAD. I hope this helps with a sense of fairness and access.
If you are outside Canada / USA and would benefit from a currency adjustment in pricing, please let me know.
Do you have questions?
Please send us a note! We’d love to hear from you.