NVC and Money

Our consciousness in using NVC is that money is a strategy to meet needs.  When workshops are offered, we are meeting several of our own needs such as connection, purpose, contribution and growth.  We also want support in our livelihood through teaching NVC; this way we can contribute a large amount of our energy and resources without seeking other work to sustain ourselves and our families.  Hoping to meet these needs, we ask that each participant/supporter contribute the most they can.

Simultanteously, there is a deep joy in and commitment to making Nonviolent Communication available to all people regardless of their financial means.  We are particularly interested in reaching people of color and low-income people for whom our requested contribution would be prohibitive.  This meets our needs for inclusion, hope, and concrete action toward bringing peace to our world.  To meet these needs, we ask that each person contribute not more than they are able to.

We are aware that "money" is a charged issue for most of us in this culture.  In this context, we want to maximize our own and others' opportunities to consider how to shift our relationships to money through NVC.  One of our strategies is to create a wide sliding-scale for our trainings rather than the usual firm cost or even quite narrow sliding-scales.  We hope that each person will consider our sliding-scale an opportunity to consider the variety of needs that exist within your relationship to money – your needs for sustainability, security, ease, comfort, and contribution, among others. 

We trust that each person would consider those needs of yours along with ours which we described above, and arrive at an amount that reflects your financial reality grounded in your needs.  Hoping to meet all of our needs, we ask that each person contribute, joyfully, the most that they would like to.

This approach is exciting, as we predict that, over time, it will contribute to meeting all of our needs for learning and for moving toward a society where everyone's needs are valued.

Many of these words are taken from BayNVC's website.  BayNVC is an integral "leader" NVC organization located in Oakland, California, founded by CNVC Trainers, Inbal & Miki Kashtan.