Nonviolent Communication for Therapists with Cath Burke

NVC for Therapists with Cath Burke
A practical workshop for navigating real-life conflict with connection and confidence

Conflict—whether internal or within relationships—is a common experience and a frequent focus in therapy. This workshop offers therapists an experiential way to deepen their skills using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to support themselves and their clients in moments of tension, disconnection, or disagreement.

NVC is a powerful framework of mindset, language, and practices that helps us:

• Reframe triggering situations
  
• Find empathy for ourselves and others
  
• Speak honestly without blame or judgment
  
• De-escalate charged interactions
  
• Create connection even amid strong disagreement
  

What to expect:
You’ll work in small groups and apply NVC to a real-life trigger of your own—or support someone else with theirs. Through guided practice, you’ll explore:

• Shifting your thinking or emotional response to a conflict
  
• Approaching dialogue with more integrity, clarity, and compassion
  
• Using NVC as a framework to support clients with inner or outer conflict
  

By the end, you’ll gain practical experience and a process you can bring into therapeutic work to help generate calm, confidence, and connection in difficult interactions.

About Cath Burke

Cath Burke is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and has been teaching NVC for over a decade. She regularly facilitates 12-hour Foundation Courses and Intermediate Development & Integration Groups in London and online, and runs three NVC residential retreats each year in Devon. These retreats weave in movement and dance to support the embodiment of NVC, drawing on her training as an Open Floor Movement Practice teacher.

Cath also holds a Needs-Based Coaching certification and has studied Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana to increase her trauma awareness. Her background includes a PGCE in Adult Education and a Foundation Diploma in Core Process Psychotherapy.

Learn more about Cath here and explore more about NVC here.