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Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator · Miami, FL

Nonviolent Communication training in Miami.

Train as a Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator (CCCF) with Harmonika Institute in Miami, FL. Train as a Compassionate Communication Facilitator — observation, feeling, need, request, with extensive role-play hours.

Nonviolent Communication certification training in Miami, FL

Miami cohort details

City
Miami, FL
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
Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Train where you live

Why Nonviolent Communication in Miami?

Miami's wellness culture is genuinely bilingual and pan-American. Practitioners here move between English and Spanish (and often Portuguese), and the modalities they're drawn to often arrive through Latin American as well as North American channels. Our cohorts frequently include healthcare workers and entrepreneurs in active career transition. Note: Florida specifically prohibits non-licensed naturopathy practice; the Holistic Naturopathy program is therefore not offered in Miami.

For students of Nonviolent Communication specifically, Miami's scene is a particularly good match: bilingual en/es practitioner community. naturopathy program excluded by florida state regulation. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Wynwood, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Miami applicants are often 30-50, with backgrounds spanning healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and entrepreneurship. Many are bilingual EN/ES (some trilingual with Portuguese) and want to serve a bilingual or trilingual clientele. Several recent cohorts have included nurses transitioning out of Florida hospitals, entrepreneurs from Latin American backgrounds adding holistic credentials to existing wellness businesses, and yoga teachers seeking complementary modalities. Cultural literacy across U.S./LatAm wellness frameworks is a hallmark of the Miami student profile.

The modality

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.

What you'll learn

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

See the full module-by-module curriculum →

Cohort schedule

When Nonviolent Communication cohorts run in Miami.

Miami cohorts run year-round but adjust around hurricane season (late August through October), with September starts buffered for storm contingency. The peak cohort months are January-April when the snowbird wellness market is at its most active. Summer cohorts are smaller but unusually committed.

The right student

Who this Miami cohort is for.

Coaches, mediators, HR professionals, parents, and community leaders who want a deep, embodied communication practice.

Career outcomes

After graduation in Miami.

  • 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
Tuition

$3,200 for the full 23-day Nonviolent Communication program in Miami.

Same tuition whether you study in Miami or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Miami cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$3,200

185h total · 9 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Compassionate Communication Facilitator in Miami.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Nonviolent Communication cohort starting in Miami, FL. Free, online, one hour.