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Find your clarity with Empathic Coaching & Nonviolent Communication (NVC) courses in Byron Bay, South Australia and Online
Melinda Knudsen - Coach - specialising in communication skills and goal realisation
20/03/2026
We're all ready and excited for the Compassionate Communication Training tomorrow. There is still room in next weekend's group, 28th-29th March, if you would like to join.
What if better conversations could change the world? Learning Compassionate Communication isn't just good for your relationships. It's good for you, your team, and everyone around you. Small shifts. Real impact.
This March in NW Tasmania, we are hosting 2-day Foundation Trainings with 3 experienced NVC trainers from the mainland.
Find out more and register here: https://onefullmoment.com.au/nvc-courses
01/03/2026
Join a Compassionate Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication / NVC) Foundation Training in Tasmania this March! 🌿
This is your chance to:
✨ Learn practical skills to express yourself clearly to be heard
✨ Practice connecting with empathy, even in tricky conversations
✨ Take away tools you can use immediately in your work, relationships, and daily life
This training is facilitated by Sharon Rallings of Real Speak, Melinda Knudsen and Ricky Shipard, and hosted by experienced NVC communicator Michelle Towle at the Reseed Centre. With three trainers, you will receive diverse perspectives and attentive support throughout the weekend. You will also be supported to work with a real life situation that is meaningful and relevant to you.
Two weekend options available.
Come and discover how small shifts in communication can make a big difference. We can’t wait to meet you!
Michelle and RESEED have intentionally brought these trainers to Tasmania to support accessibility and affordability for local participants, so you do not need to travel interstate to access this level of training. The ticket price reflects a community friendly rate and primarily contributes to covering the trainers’ travel costs, while also holding care for their sustainability.
Learn communication skills that can positively change your relationships and everyday interactions.
This March in NW Tasmania, we are hosting 2-day Foundation Trainings with 3 experienced NVC trainers from the mainland.
Find out more and register here: https://onefullmoment.com.au/nvc-courses
We also offer Nonviolent Communication courses, workshops and personalised coaching in South Australia, Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers, New South Wales.
Compassionate communication sessions are available online, in person, or through walk-and-talk sessions. Find more about my services here: https://www.empathycatalyst.com/
Whether you're seeking better relationships, more confidence in communication, or simply a way to stay true to yourself while connecting with others, this workshop offers practical tools and fresh insights to support you. Come as you are and get ready for some eye-opening insights!
🎉 Update for my 4-hour Compassionate Communication workshop on 7th March!
I’ve made registration easier and faster:
💳 Smooth checkout via Eventbrite – just a few clicks and your spot is secured.
💡 I’m absorbing the Eventbrite fees, so the price you see is what you pay.
Spots are limited to keep it small and interactive, so grab yours today and step into more understanding, connection, and ease in your conversations!
🌿 Meet the Trainers: We’re excited to bring two Compassionate Communication (NVC) Foundation Trainings to Tasmania this March! 🌿
This is your chance to:
✨ Learn practical skills to express yourself clearly and be heard
✨ Practice connecting with empathy, even in tricky conversations
✨ Take away tools you can use immediately in your work, relationships, and daily life
Meet the trainers in the pictures below
Spaces are limited to keep our groups interactive and supportive.
Come and discover how small shifts in communication can make a big difference. We can’t wait to meet you!
Ever notice how quickly conversations turn into analysis, blame, or fixing?
We often communicate from:
• Evaluations about what’s wrong
• Stories about what someone meant
• Strategies about how it “should” be solved
• Demands, even subtle ones
Sometimes we walk away feeling less connected than we intended.
Recognising the pattern matters. New skills can be learned. With practice, you can create communication habits that strengthen and enrich your relationships.
In this 4-hour introduction to Compassionate Communication in Ocean Shores, we’ll explore a different way.
We will practise how to:
• Shift from evaluation to clear observation
• Recognise what you’re feeling and what matters to you
• Move from demands to genuine requests
• Untangle stories from what’s actually happening
• Listen in a way that builds connection rather than defensiveness
There will be guided exercises and space to explore your real-life situations in a supportive group.
Small group.
Interactive.
Designed around practical tools you can use immediately.
📍 Ocean Shores Hub Church
🕒 4-hour workshop
Saturday, March 7 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEDT
🌻 Our October Foundation Course is officially full! A waitlist is now open — thank you for the incredible response.
✨ The good news? There are still places left in our Next Steps Course (11–12 October, Kent Town).
If you’ve already completed an NVC Foundation Course — whether with us or elsewhere — you’re warmly invited to join us for the next stage of your NVC journey. This weekend is all about deepening skills, building confidence, strengthening self-connection, and addressing real-life challenges that matter most.
📍 Kent Town, South Australia
💰 $210
📅 11–12 October 2025
🌿 Introduction to Compassionate Communication – & what it can do for you
🗓 Brunswick Heads | Saturday 23 August | 1.30–4.30pm
Do you ever feel like you’re doing your best to keep the peace—but end up feeling resentful, shut down, or like you’ve disappeared in the process?
Maybe it’s the same conversations going in circles.
Maybe it’s struggling to ask for what you need—or even to know what that is.
Maybe it’s setting boundaries at work… only to backtrack because it feels too hard or too risky.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
And there’s a different way.
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I’m holding this introduction workshop because I love sharing Nonviolent Communication (NVC). It has helped me so much personally, and I see the difference it makes in my clients’ lives every day.
I’d love to see more people learn NVC and experience all the ways it can support healing, clarity, and connection. Honestly, I’d like the whole world to learn it—a world where communication helps us build understanding and respect, so life works better for everyone.
This workshop is an invitation for anyone curious about discovering new things about themselves and new ways to communicate—ones that can genuinely improve your life and relationships.
It’s a chance to explore and play with NVC processes in a space that supports:
💬 Being truly heard
💛 Being seen with kindness
🌱 Growing and learning
🎈 Having fun
🤝 Feeling community and belonging
I’m also excited to expand my local connections and meet others who share this interest.
Alongside the workshop, I offer empathic coaching for anyone wanting deeper, 1:1 support to apply NVC in their own life.
If you’re ready to explore a way of communicating that feels honest, liberating, and deeply human, this is for you.
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Efter at have søgt i lang tid, mange steder, efter en bedre måde at kommunikere på og opretholde forbindelse til det essentielle i mennesket på, fandt Ikkevoldelig kommunikation mig.
Jeg har været heldig at modtage en fantastisk empatisk tilstedeværelse på meget vigtige tidspukter i mit liv og har fundet det være utroligt transformerende. Så nu efter at have studeret ikkevoldelig kommunikation (NVC) i flere år, er jeg glad for at kunne tilbyde effektiv empatisk support, kommunikationscoaching og sparringstøtte til andre.
Jeg samarbejde med LIVKOM OG Kommunikation for Livet
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After looking many places over a very long time for a better way to communicate and connect, Nonviolent Communication found me.
I've been fortunate to receive amazing empathic presence at very pivotal moments in my life and have found it to been incredibly transformational. So now having been studying Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for several years, I'm happy to be able to offer effective empathic support, communication coaching and sparring support to others.
I collaborate with LIVKOM OG Kommunikation for Livet