International trainings
International trainings and events
Since 2000, Savanna ConneXions has had the pleasure of bringing international NVC trainers to Finland to provide workshops, trainings and other events. See below for the next opportunity!
Upcoming events
STEPPING STONES
The Friendship Inn (Ystävyyden Majatalo), Kruusila
September 17th-20th, 2021
We ask you to arrive in the afternoon on Friday and stay until 2 pm. on Monday.
This is an ADVANCED NVC-training. We hope that you have already shared NVC or are planning to share in the near future and maybe become a CNVC Certified NVC Trainer.
Venue: The Friendship Inn
Organizer: ESEAT Team (=English Speaking European Assessment Team) and Savanna ConneXions
Language: English
Trainers: Towe Widstrand and Shona Cameron, CNVC Certified Trainers and Assessors
Price of the training: sliding scale, 310-700 €
Price includes the training and training materials
Prices of the room and board:
Fri–Mon inside the house: 195 €/person (includes VAT)
Fri–Mon own caravan/tent : 105 € /person (includes VAT)
Room and board will be paid directly to the Friendship Inn when you arrive.
You need to do your enrolment at the latest on July 31st, 2021:
Enrolment form to the training.
We welcome 24 participants at the most.
You receive your invoice after it is confirmed that this event will happen.
Facebook-event, where you can ask questions about this training from the organizers, connect with other participants, ask and offer rides to the Friendship Inn etc.
Shona and Towe write
Our purpose for Stepping Stone events
- In-depth learning and practice, integration of skills and knowledge
- Working on growth and feedback in community
- Supporting a sense of belonging to a “journey of giraffes*”
Possible subjects to cover will be developed in co-creation with participants
- deepen your skills in empathic listening
- work on personal learning edges
- learn to give and receive feedback in the partnership paradign
- practise aspects of what we cover in the assessment
- work on enemy images in a safe environment
- build connection and community, support for your growth
This event will be a coming together in a safe space to practise and grow your trainer skills
- a combination of mentoring and training
- a three-day residential event
* The collective noun for a group of giraffes is a herd, colloquially called a journey of giraffes – which aptly describes the way they traverse their typical savannah, woodland and grassland habitat.
IIT Finland, Kiponniemi, Jyväskylä, July 2022
First time in Finland: International Intensive Training (IIT), a 9-day intensive training together with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Read more here and check also the CNVC IIT page closer to the event.
Past events
HEALING OF THE WOUNDED HEART AND LIVING AS AN ADULT – Advanced training
26-28 July, 2021, in Kiponniemi, Vesanka, Finland
Kirsten Kristensen, CNVC Certified Trainer, family therapist, mediator and CNVC board member from Denmark.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
A HELPING HAND! An advanced mediation training
17-18 April, 2021, in Zoom
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Mediator and Author of the book Helping Hand from Sweden.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
A HELPING HAND! An advanced mediation training
12–13 December, 2020, in Zoom
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Mediator and Author of the book Helping Hand from Sweden.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Break free and stand tall as you share NVC!
16–18 November 2018, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Shona Cameron, CNVC Certified Trainer and Assessor, UK
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Intimacy with Life
9–13 July 2018, Espoo
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Noa Ilay Shilo, Israel
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Retreat: The field where we meet
8–12 February 2017, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Embodying the Spirit of NVC
19–22 February 2016, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Anger, Guilt and Shame
18–20 October 2013, Espoo
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Nonviolent Communication based Mediation Training
28 February – 9 November 2011, Tuusula
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Kay Rung, empathy and mediation trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
The Power of Empathy
24–26 April 2009, Pernaja
Jeyanthy Siva, international trainer, mediator and coach, Sri Lanka
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Me in the World – the World in Me
7–9 April 2006, Karjalohja
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Continuation NVC Training with Marshall Rosenberg
27–29 August 2005, Espoo
Marshall Rosenberg, CNVC, USA
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Conference – Nonviolent Communication as a process in victim-offender mediation and other conflict situations
5–6 June 2004, Helsinki
Marshall Rosenberg, CNVC, USA
Patricia Dannahy, CNVC Certified Trainer, Young Offenders Project in Prisons, UK
Dow Gordon, former prisoner, Freedom Project Core Team Member, USA
Thomas Ekbom, Prison and Probation Services, Sweden
Allan Schurmann, police officer, Danish Center for Conflict Resolution, Denmark
Juhani Iivari, Research Director, Finland
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
