Time for Empathy
1-8 March 2026
One week of online workshops about empathic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offered for free by trainers from all over the world!
Learn empathic communication with us, look at empathy from different perspectives and become part of the NVC community which inspires and supports each other!
About Time for Empathy
“Time for Empathy” is a one-week-long online event promoting empathic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We see each other every year in March. The next edition will take place from 1 to 8 March 2026!
We invite trainers from all over the world to offer free workshops and lectures. Participants will be able to join and learn empathic communication with us, look at empathy from different perspectives and become part of the NVC community which inspires and supports each other!
All the best!
Empathic Way Europe team
Take part in this event!
Join this event and take part in as many workshops as you will. Don’t forget to invite your family and friends and help us reach people that might be interested in this topic.
Time for Empathy 2026 programme

Time for Empathy 2026 – Opening session

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

Introduction to Nonviolent Communication – Magdalena Malinowska-Berggren and Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Keep going with Jackals until you reach the bone! – Thera Balvers

Introduction to Gratitude Walk and Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Relationships are Strategies: a needs mapping session – Meenadchi

Honouring life’s intensity – Julia Wight

Empathy & Beyond! Resonance for Social Change – Jane Zawadowski and Matjaz Kovse

Attunement, Body Sensations and Living Needs Guesses – Sarah Peyton

Empathy with Mortals – Ricardo Guillén

Introduction to Nonviolent Communication – Joachim Berggren and Cori Liebhart

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Cori Liebhart

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

3 Things “Getting to know you through the eyes of your stuff” – Amy Dyer

Empathy Circle – How Are You Doing Really? – Ondine Delavelle

Engineering a Compassionate Future: Integrating Head, Heart and Systems – Kay Rung

Empathy at a time in our world when enemy images are running rampant and violence seems the norm – Sylvia Haskvitz

Listening to the Body: An Embodied Way to Understand Feelings – Lucy Ascham

Compassionate impact digestion: choosing generous narratives – Marco Bertaglia

Troubleshooting Empathizing – Allan Rohlfs

Tending the Unseen – A Grief Circle For Parents – Jorinde Rapsey

Disgust – a hidden gateway to safety and integrity – Gabriela Papuzińska

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

Contributing to achieving the SDGs through NVC – Ondine Delavelle

Thriving together: NVC and close relationships – Gesine Schrader

Holding Space … for Myself – Mareidi Pibernik

Dare to be vulnerable – Julia Shen

Empathic regret and reconciliation with myself – Irmtraud Kauschat

From Freeze to Flow – Gabi Papuzińska and Kasia Mroczek

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

Touch and Be Touched by Life: The Wheel of Resonance – Cori Liebhart

Let’s Grow Old Together – Joachim Berggren

From core-belief to care-belief: A collective transformation method – Maude Vital

Empathy for the inner jackal – Ingrid Gabršček

NVC Meets Authentic Relating – Katrina Vaillancourt

Dancing with Shame – Embodiment for Self-Compassion – Sasha Soreff

Mediating with Empathy – Aya Caspi

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Cori Liebhart

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

What might be stopping me from what I want – Vega Moon

Being present with ourselves and for another – Aleksandra Harazin and Veronika C. Steffens

Self-empathy: mourning as a path to liberation – Elzyte Vareikyte

Supporting others with 1:1 conversations. From empathy to empowerment – Ondine Delavelle

Connecting When Empathy Hurts – Pernille Plantener

“You can’t make me feel…!” – Karen Starz

Self-Dialogue and the Inner Critic: Hearing the beautiful needs behind our Judgements – Ela Ramos

Entering the Fire: Initiation, Empathy and the Rise of Consciousness – Pierre Vigneron

Nourishing Needs: Creativity & Discovery – Vanessa West

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

The Sacredness of Requests – Kirsten Kristensen

Layers of Empathy – Elzyte Vareikyte

Triggers as a Path of Growth: The Way of Initiation – Pierre Vigneron and Cori Liebhart

Community of Care – Roksolana Melnyk and Matjaz Kovse

Connecting with Primary Emotions: A Map to Needs – Julie Duguid

NVC as a non-dual spirituality – Mironel de Wilde

The Healing Power of Empathy: a Live Individual Session. Accompaniment using NVC Posture in a Therapeutic Perspective – Pierre Vigneron

Presence in a Rushed World – Vanessa West

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Needs Meditation – Joachim Berggren

Dyad Meditation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Gratitude Walk – Joachim Berggren

Leading with Heart. Conscious Leadership in Times of Fragmentation – Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez

Embodying life-serving belief – Vega Moon

How Empathy Increases Our Capacity for Choice – Karen Starz

Empathy. Q&A Session – Miki Kashtan and Isabel Ortega Caro

About the organizers

Cori Liebhart
Peace and Conflict Researcher, Soulpreneur, Singer-Songwriter
NVC for me is peacework, knowledge and wisdom combined, a language of all senses, consciousness-training. It is a tool for me to stay on my path, be open for the challenges of life and be present in every encounter I experience. I am mother of two boys. Being part of the Empathic Way Europe fulfills many needs like co-creation, contribution, adventure, community, peace.

Magdalena Malinowska-Berggren
CNVC Certified Trainer

Paulina Orbitowska-Fernandez
CNVC Certified Trainer, Coach, eduScrum Trainer, an academic teacher

Joachim Berggren
Certified CNVC Trainer and communication consultant
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