Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator · Baltimore, MD
Nonviolent Communication training in Baltimore.
Train as a Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator (CCCF) with Harmonika Institute in Baltimore, MD. Train as a Compassionate Communication Facilitator — observation, feeling, need, request, with extensive role-play hours.
Baltimore cohort details
- City
- Baltimore, MD
- 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 Baltimore?
Baltimore's wellness market is shaped by Johns Hopkins University and Hospital — one of the world's preeminent academic medical centers. Our cohorts here include researchers, healthcare workers, and educators with strong scientific literacy. The city's broader community-organizing tradition also shapes a wellness culture oriented toward practical service.
For students of Nonviolent Communication specifically, Baltimore's scene is a particularly good match: johns hopkins academic-medical pipeline. community-oriented practitioner culture. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Hampden, Federal Hill, Mount Vernon, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.
Baltimore students are often 30-55, with backgrounds in healthcare (Hopkins, Sinai, UMMC nurses and PAs are well-represented), education, social services, and family-business roles. They ask careful evidence-based questions and value scope-of-practice clarity.
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 Baltimore.
Baltimore cohorts run year-round with January, May, and September starts. The fall cohort is the strongest. Summer humidity is real but indoor venues are well-equipped.
Who this Baltimore cohort is for.
Coaches, mediators, HR professionals, parents, and community leaders who want a deep, embodied communication practice.
After graduation in Baltimore.
- 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 Baltimore.
Same tuition whether you study in Baltimore or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Baltimore 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 Baltimore.
Talk with our admissions team about the next Nonviolent Communication cohort starting in Baltimore, MD. Free, online, one hour.