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Rose City NVC

Rose City NVC is a Life Coach in Portland, OR 97214 At Rose City NVC, we’re excited to provide you with the training, skills, and support that you long for.

We offer a broad range of NVC classes as well as counseling and mediation services to individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations. We’re glad to tailor our offerings to meet your needs. Whether you’re entirely new to NVC or have been practicing for years, Rose City NVC offers opportunities to build your skills and consciousness.

10/21/2025

We're here to help you uncover your full potential. As your life coach, we'll guide you toward personal growth and purpose. Let's begin your transformation today—contact us to start your journey!
https://communicationskillsportland.com/life-coach

10/02/2025

Would you like to respond differently to criticism, anger, apathy, or general drama from your family members? Want to cultivate relationships where family share more honestly and see you as on their side? Longing for a different quality of connection with your parents, children, siblings, in-laws, or anyone else with whom you have an ongoing relationship?

Developing the practical skills for Self-connection, listening, and expression can have a profound impact on the quality of connection experienced with our family. Whether you currently talk everyday, a few times a year at holidays and gatherings, or have not been on speaking terms for years, there are tools available within the NVC framework that can shift things toward connection, understanding, belonging and intimacy.

In this workshop we will:
• Learn essential self-empathy tools that can provide a significant amount of relief.
• Develop the capacity to remain grounded so we can better serve family needs (this includes ourselves!).
• Discover the power of silent empathy for others and practice in a safe environment.
• Practice expressing in ways that can be heard by family, including those who “don’t speak NVC.”
• Take steps towards becoming an advocate for peace and connection, even when others in your family are in conflict.

$130 - $330 Sliding Scale

09/22/2025

Starts tomorrow Online, we have more space! If you've taken our Foundation Course, you meet prereq's to join, & can sign up here: https://rosecitynvc.org/classes/
If you can't make it this time around, the next 8-week course starts January 27th! Looking forward to having you again! 😄

08/19/2025

We start out in life without the tools to cope with the intense feelings that emotional withdrawal, violent communication, or physical trauma stimulate. Nor do we have the tools to begin to identify our needs and find strategies to meet these needs. Compassionately admitting to myself, I was repeating a pattern I learned from my family of origin (reaching back several generations at least) was the first step. That self-honesty started my self-empowered path to connect more authentically to my feelings, identify my needs, and meet my needs.

Whether a romantic partner, family member, or employer, when I was experiencing repeat abuse in relationships, it was because of what I was doing. My actions did not warrant abuse. No one deserves abuse, yet I was making unconscious choices that led me into and kept me in the cycle. My own patterns were keeping me from meeting some of my most essential needs.

To register: https://rosecitynvc.org/workshops/

In this introductory workshop, we will:

• Get the empathy, self-compassion, and understanding you need to fight for what you’re most longing for.
• Learn to communicate your thoughts clearly and understand the difference between requests & boundaries.
• Discover the ability to easily set appropriate boundaries and stick to them.
• Start developing the courage and self-confidence needed to leave an abusive relationship if necessary.
• Learn to take accountability for your actions and untangle from your partners.
• Get tools to decrease making assumptions and buying into your stories or obsessive thinking.
• Increase your ability to get clarity discerning whether you need to end your relationship or get the help you need to move through and break the cycle.
• Support grief, mourning, and healing around losses you have experienced from losing yourself in this pattern.

08/06/2025

The subtleties of communication can transform your relationships. Tap into this hidden knowledge in our Foundation Class, an 8-week journey exploring Nonviolent Communication (NVC). You’ll learn how to enrich relationships, cultivate a language that resonates deeply, gain strategies to gracefully navigate challenging dialogues, and more. No prior experience needed—just bring your eagerness to learn!

Info/registration: https://rosecitynvc.org/classes/

Recent testimonials:

"Sandra Amiry’s courses have invited me to address entrenched, maladaptive patterns in my own communication style. As a result, I feel more tenderness and receptivity in my intimate partnership. In my professional role as a mental health advocate, I feel more grounded and attuned to my clients. When I encounter political ideologies with which I disagree, I find myself harmonizing with the feelings and needs of the person instead of reacting to their ideas. Highly recommend Rose City NVC!"

- Molly McCarty

Taking classes at Rose City NVC transformed how I listen—to others and to myself. When my teenage son stormed upstairs slamming the door, I practiced empathic listening: “It sounds like you’re really frustrated—would you like me to sit with you?” He came downstairs a few minutes later and shared what was weighing on him for the first time in weeks. In a high-stakes work negotiation, I noticed my attempts to control a situation were cloaking a need for effectiveness and collaboration. I voiced this transparently, which turned a standoff into a partnership.

Will Clark

Info/registration: https://rosecitynvc.org/classes/

07/30/2025

Do you feel confused, hurt, and sometimes angry when even your best efforts to connect seem to fail repeatedly? Are you hoping for skills and understanding that can transform your experience?

More info/register: https://rosecitynvc.org/workshops/

During our Free Introduction to NVC (also known as Compassionate Communication) we will explore and learn to:

• Understand how our efforts to connect can be affected by unconscious perceptions of danger that can keep us separate and how to regain calm and ease.
• Engage others in a way that creates peaceful, satisfying connections, especially when they are reacting.
• Experience our true selves; able to address our reactions, confident, present, satisfied, and connected.
• Learn to listen to and be heard by others in a way that increases understanding, collaboration, and closeness.

We look forward to meeting you and exploring together what brings us all joy, peaceful and cooperative relationships.

Prerequisites: None
Where: Online. Complete registration to receive Zoom link and other details.
Organizer: Sandra Amiry
Date: Monday, September 8, 2025
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: This is a FREE introduction. Donations inspired by the difference we make are gratefully accepted (not required) following workshop.
Maximum Class Size: 24

Hope to see you then! 🤩

03/18/2025

Did you know that we offer NVC training for organizations, businesses, and schools? Our offerings include, Basic Skills Training, intermediate training, Advanced Level Training, and Targeting Skills Training, each designed to accelerate and clarify communication while also building team cooperation, trust, and motivation. Visit rosecitynvc.org/organizational-trainings to get started!

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03/10/2025

Here's what some participants share, who are taking our current Foundation course:

"When I encounter political ideologies with which I disagree, I find myself harmonizing with the feelings and needs of the person instead of reacting to their ideas."

"With my new NVC tool bag, I've been able to support my adult daughter in her overwhelm and anxiety around the new administration and nation-wide changes being made. I'm overall better equipped to support her in positive ways, fairly consistently, in our conversations."

These same tools are effective for any difficult conversation or scenario.

We have a new series starting April 28th!

For more information and to register click here:
https://rosecitynvc.org/classes/ -course

03/04/2025

Do you long for connection and an experience of belonging, and instead feel confused, hurt, and sometimes angry when even your best efforts to connect seem to repeatedly fail? Are you hoping for skills and understanding that can transform your experience?
Register: www.rosecitynvc.org Workshop Page.

During our Free Introduction to NVC (also known as Compassionate Communication) we will explore and learn to:

• Understand how our efforts to connect can be affected by unconscious perceptions of danger that can keep us separate and how to regain calm and ease.
• Engage others in a way that creates peaceful, satisfying connections, especially when they are reacting.
• Experience our true selves; able to address our reactions, confident, present, satisfied, and connected.
• Learn to listen to and be heard by others in a way that increases understanding, collaboration, and closeness.

We look forward to meeting you and exploring together what brings us all joy, peaceful and cooperative relationships.

Prerequisites: None
Where: Online. Complete registration to receive Zoom link and other details.
Organizer: Sandra Amiry
Date: April 7, 2025
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: This is a FREE introduction. Donations inspired by the difference we make are very gratefully accepted (though not required) following the workshop.
Maximum Class Size: 24

01/21/2025

It can be heartbreaking at times that the closer you want to get to someone, the more reactive you and your partner can become. In our Compassionate Couples workshop, you will explore how increasing intimacy can promote reactivity and how addressing this reactivity can transform your relationships from agonizing to astonishingly beautiful.

In this workshop together, you and your partner will get to explore practicing NVC in Coupleship!

We will:
• Explore the different partnership stories that can keep us in reactive loops.
• Learn and practice making agreements to keep you both comfortable and cared for when in conflict in the workshop (and at home).
• Learn to ask and hear the hard questions about your relationship.
• Make requests of each other and be able to trust that you will be heard in good faith – without hearing a demand.
• Practice hearing a “No” from your partner and skills to navigate where to go from there.
• Increase effectiveness around getting each of your needs met with more ease and efficiency.
• Practice challenging interactions with the guidance and support of your facilitator and the group.
• Learn to make repairs even when it seems the most impossible.
• Discover ways to shift the overall tone of the relationship from one of tension and doubt to one of appreciation, collaboration, and mutual support!

12/10/2024

At Rose City NVC, we bring the latest developments in effective communication, interpersonal neurobiology, and mindfulness in service of calm, peace, and joy in your relationships. Our classes address your experience of disconnection and provide you the skills necessary to establish meaningful and authentic relationships.

Our program is incremental because we believe that more than intellectual understanding is necessary to achieve the peace that you long for. Each course in our Speaking Peace Series below builds on the one before it, resulting in a depth of practice that cements your new skills. Our program is diverse and covers the full range of topics and experiences necessary for successful growth in human connection.

Sign up on Website: https://rosecitynvc.org/classes/

12/02/2024

So done with all your communication problems with family, friends, etc?! To sign up go to workshop page on website listed above. https://rosecitynvc.org/workshops/

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3534 SE Main Street
Portland, OR
97214

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+15033955285

Website

http://rosecitynvc.org/, https://communicationskillsportland.com/

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