Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator · Austin, TX
Nonviolent Communication training in Austin.
Train as a Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator (CCCF) with Harmonika Institute in Austin, TX. Train as a Compassionate Communication Facilitator — observation, feeling, need, request, with extensive role-play hours.
Austin cohort at a glance
- Tuition
- $2,500
- Format
- 100% in person
- In-person teaching
- 6 days · 48h
- Personal study
- ~38h
- Cohort size
- 10 students
- Credential
- CCCF
Same tuition in every city
In Austin, TX
8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days
Between sessions, on average
Fixed cohort, start to finish
Private certification, not a state license
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
Jun 25 – Aug 1, 2027
Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 6 teaching days in 2 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort
- Module 1Jun 25–27
- Module 2Jul 30–Aug 1
Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Austin venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.
Seats
10 students
Enrolment closes
June 4, 2027
Two minutes, no payment today. Our admissions team contacts you within two business days.
Why Nonviolent Communication in Austin?
Austin's wellness culture punches above the city's weight. The metro is small by U.S. standards but the practitioner community is unusually engaged: there are more breathwork facilitators, sound healers, and somatic practitioners per capita here than in cities ten times its size. Many of our Austin students come from tech, music, or hospitality and arrive looking for a serious second-career practice.
For students of Nonviolent Communication specifically, Austin's scene is a particularly good match: disproportionately large practitioner community for the city size. strong somatic and breathwork demand. The local cohort runs in venue partners around East Austin, South Congress, Hyde Park, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Austin students are often 28-45, with backgrounds in tech (Austin's software industry is a major recruitment pipeline), music and hospitality, and creative industries. The cohort is younger than most other markets in our network, and the entrepreneurial energy is unusually high — many Austin students arrive already running small wellness businesses (yoga studios, retreats, supplement brands) and want credentialed depth to support business growth.
What you'll be training in.
For a deeper introduction to Nonviolent Communication as a practice tradition, see the full program page.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also called Compassionate Communication, is a framework for honest expression and empathic listening developed by the American clinical psychologist Marshall Rosenberg from the 1960s onward. Rosenberg's central insight is that almost all human conflict — from family arguments to workplace dysfunction to international war — has a similar internal structure, and that a specific four-step communication pattern can interrupt that structure in real time.
The four steps are: Observation (specifically what happened, without evaluation), Feeling (what is alive in me right now, distinguished from thoughts about others), Need (the underlying universal human need that is or isn't being met), and Request (a specific, doable, present-tense action — not a demand). Stated this way it sounds simple. In practice, separating observation from evaluation, distinguishing feelings from thoughts, identifying needs accurately, and making clean requests rather than demands all require sustained practice. Rosenberg used to say that NVC is not difficult to understand and not easy to practice.
The Nonviolent Communication curriculum in Austin: 6 in-person days.
Six days to speak, listen and lead groups with Nonviolent Communication.
- Teaching days
- 6
- Teaching hours
- 48h
- Cohort size
- 10
days, 7h each
in the room
in your Austin cohort
| Day | Theme |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 · Days 1–2Foundations | |
| 01 | The four components and the heart of NVC |
| 02 | Precise observation and empathic listening |
| Chapter 2 · Days 3–4Inner work | |
| 03 | Feelings, needs and self-empathy |
| 04 | Clear requests and difficult conversations |
| Chapter 3 · Days 5–6Facilitation | |
| 05 | Mediation between two people and within a group |
| 06 | Leading workshops and your CCCF |
Signature moment of the program
When Nonviolent Communication cohorts run in Austin.
Austin cohorts adjust around the deep summer heat. January-May and September-November cohorts have the highest attendance; June-August is reduced. Indoor venue partners are essential through summer.
Who this Austin cohort is for.
Coaches, mediators, HR professionals, parents, and community leaders who want a deep, embodied communication practice.
Where your Austin training leads.
- Lead NVC workshops as a CCCF
- Offer NVC-informed mediation and coaching
- Add NVC to a coaching, HR, or leadership practice
- Specialize in family, couple, or workplace communication
$2,500 for the full 6-day Nonviolent Communication program in Austin.
Same tuition whether you study in Austin or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Austin cohort.
Tuition and financing details$2,500
48h of teaching · 6 in-person days
Nonviolent Communication: questions students ask first.
- NVC Feelings and Needs List: The Vocabulary and How to Use ItThe NVC needs list and feelings list in tables: feelings when needs are met or unmet, 7 need categories, the pseudo-feelings trap, a worked example.9 min read
- Nonviolent Communication Training: From Practice to FacilitationThe two routes into teaching NVC, why the official certification takes years, what facilitators actually get paid to do, and where the legal line sits.10 min read
Nonviolent Communication certification in other Harmonika cities.
Next step
Become a Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator in Austin.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Nonviolent Communication cohort starting in Austin, TX. Free, online, one hour.