Compassionate Communication

Courses & Workshops

Practical communication skills for real life, real workplaces and real relationships

Whether you’re joining a 4-hour introduction, a multi-day Foundation Training, or booking a tailored program for your organisation, these courses are designed to build practical, usable skills that you can use immediately.

What You’ll Learn

Skills that strengthen connection, clarity and confidence

Across all formats, participants learn how to:

Express themselves clearly without blame, criticism or withdrawal
Listen in a way that helps others feel heard and understood
Navigate tension without escalating conflict
Recognise reactive patterns and choose more conscious responses
Transform internal self-talk into supportive inner dialogue
Create communication patterns that enrich relationships at work and at home

Recognising old patterns is part of the process.
Learning and practising new skills makes change possible.

Training Formats

Flexible delivery for different needs

4-Hour Workshops

A focused, interactive introduction to Compassionate Communication.
Ideal for community groups, workplaces or teams wanting practical tools in a short timeframe.

Foundation Trainings

A deeper, experiential learning journey over multiple sessions or days.
Participants build strong foundations in empathic listening, honest expression and conflict navigation.

Workplace & Sector-Specific Programs

Tailored training for organisations, including:

Health care teams
Education settings
Community services
Leadership teams
Small businesses and corporate workplaces

Content can be adapted to real scenarios relevant to your team, helping participants develop communication strategies they can apply immediately.

Integrated Learning Pathways

While standalone workshops create insight and momentum, real transformation happens when learning is supported over time.

For organisations wanting deeper impact, I offer integrated programs that combine group training with individual coaching for every participant.

This approach supports both skill development and personal integration.

Reflections from previous courses and programs

What Participants Say

I really enjoyed the NVC weekend seminar. It was sensitively and patiently delivered and packed full of good ideas and information. The participation was fun, engaging, and interestingly reinforced, to clarify and integrate the ideas and themes. The exercises were thought-provoking and challenging. The printed information and format, in a take-home folder reinforced in clear simple print the facilitation into our daily routine of experience and practice.

Well organised, and clearly presented, especially given the amount of material covered and incorporated. Would highly recommend to anyone and everyone and would love to see it incorporated at both primary and secondary school programes.

– Carlene, Adelaide Foundation Course participant 2023

Melinda is an excellent communicator and created a safe, purposeful and really fun environment for us in the two days we had together during the NVC foundation course. The exercises in particular were engaging, creative and helped me to learn the curriculum in a wholesome and enjoyable way.

– Tom, Adelaide Foundation Course participant 2023

I want to thank you for the warm, friendly space you created at the recent Adelaide workshops. I quickly felt supported and connected, which made it easy for me to learn. I left with new clarity and a deeper understanding of how to use NVC in my relationships with myself and others. I’m now connecting more from the heart, recognising needs with more ease, and offering myself care even when I’m not at my best. I truly appreciate the energy you both bring to this work.

– Heather, Foundation Training and Next Steps Course Participant 2025

Find a course near you

Upcoming Trainings

All currently scheduled public workshops and Foundation Trainings are listed on the Events Calendar.

If there is no suitable date listed, please reach out. I’m happy to open new trainings based on location, interest and design tailored programs for workplaces and organisations, including comprehensive training and coaching pathways.

Whether you are joining as an individual or exploring options for your whole team, we can create a structure that supports meaningful and sustainable change.

Let’s design a pathway that supports your goals

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Any questions or feedback? I look forward to hearing from you.

I really enjoyed the way Melinda included fun exercises in the course which really helped me to understand what she was trying to share. We had so much fun as we practised the different ways of hearing messages. This course has a lot of practical things that can really improve the way I communicate and connect with myself and others.

Just spent 2 days in an amazing NVC workshop facilitated by Melinda. My first time experience with the content and found it practical and challenging. It met my need for self-improvement in an inclusive compassion filled space. Melinda delivered an energetic well-timed workshop that covered lots of new information in an easily digestible manner. Many thanks for meeting my needs.

The NVC course was a Real eye opener with regard to providing methods of authentic compassionate communication. It gave clear guidance on self-compassion as well as ways to clearly communicate difficult and emotionally charged topics / situations. Thank you Melinda! 🙂

I read the NVC book many years ago and have often re-read it. To do a 2 day workshop led by Melinda, helped very much to bring all the NVC ideas alive and to another level. Hence I’m now keen to learn and practice NVC much more by attending more trainings and practice groups etc. Melinda is a superb trainer and communicator. She walks the talk. Highly recommended.