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 details
- City
- Austin, TX
- Credential
- CCCF
- Tuition
- $3,200
- In-person training
- 9 days · 72h
- Live cohort calls
- 2 days · 8h
- Supervised practice
- 70h
- Portfolio + jury
- 35h
- Total
- 185h · ~23 day-eq.
- Cohort
- 10 students
- Format
- In person + live cohort calls
PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.
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 9 in-person days.
- The four steps: observation, feeling, need, request
- Distinguishing observations from evaluations in real time
- Empathic listening and the difference between sympathy and empathy
- Self-empathy and working with strong emotions
- Mediating conflict between two people or in a group
- Designing and leading NVC workshops of varied lengths
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.
After graduation in Austin.
- 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
$3,200 for the full 23-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$3,200
185h total · 9 in-person days
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.