🇱🇻 Erasmus+ Training Course in Latvia 💚 Living Nonviolent Communication — From Knowing NVC to Embodying It in Youth Work 🕊️

🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

It’s a Love Story - Living Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in Youth Work

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

7-18 August 2026 | Drusti, Latvia

❗️What Is This Training About?

A space to move from knowing NVC to embodying it—through practice, honest reflection, and community support. Learn to stay connected in moments of stress and emotional intensity.

ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

This training is designed for people who already have experience with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and want to deepen their ability to live it in everyday reality.

Many participants come to NVC trainings, feel inspired, and connect deeply with its values. Yet when returning to daily life: fast pace, conflicts, emotional pressure, it often becomes challenging to stay connected and apply NVC in practice.

This training focuses exactly on this gap: moving from understanding NVC to embodying it.

The programme offers an immersive 10 day learning space based on non-formal education methods, where participants will engage in practical exercises, real-life scenarios, reflection, and peer learning. There will be a focus on applying NVC in challenging situations, strengthening emotional awareness, and building resilience to remain connected when disconnection happens.

Participants will explore:

how to express themselves honestly while staying connected
how to listen with empathy, especially in moments of tension
how to navigate emotions in a constructive way
how to stay connected to their own needs and prevent burnout
how to integrate NVC into their daily work with young people

The training also includes embodied practices (such as grounding and awareness exercises), role plays, and group processes that support learning through experience rather than theory alone.

The training is designed to respond to the needs of participants, so the programme will be adapted to the challenges you face when applying NVC in your work and daily life. Participants are also invited to facilitate sessions and receive feedback from other NVC practitioners to further develop their facilitation skills.

Participants profile: this activity is specifically targeted at people working in the field of non-formal learning and youth work, including youth workers, educators, facilitators, and trainers who have at least 25h+ of previous NVC training and who are applying it but struggling in some areas.

By the end of the training, participants will strengthen their communication skills, emotional awareness, and ability to create more empathetic and inclusive spaces for young people. They will also gain concrete tools and practices that can be directly transferred into their work, contributing to a more sustainable and impactful youth work practice.

Selection results will be announced lates on 7th of June.

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 37 participants

from Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Youth project managers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

KALM International Trainings (Youth NGO)

📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Marija Cīrule

E-Mail:

Phone: +37129820165

💶 Costs

Participation fee

No fee is requested.

Accommodation and food

All costs are covered by Erasmus+ programme.

Travel reimbursement

Travel reimbursement is done according to distance calculator. Travel reimbursement limits:

Greece, Spain 395 €

Italy, Romania, Slovenia 309 €

Czechia, Poland 309 (for green travel - €417 €)

Latvia 25 €

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122