An invitation to NVC trainers, candidates and practitioners
Eight online sessions to design a Mutual Wellbeing Agreement with NVC colleagues, and to work out together how we earn from our NVC work.
A conversation about this Wellbeing Team pilot on Zoom.
In the video
Tuesday 24 November 2026 on Zoom, 11.30am AEDT
Tuesdays, 1 December 2026 to 16 February 2027, with a summer break
December 2026 to June 2027, as part of the NVC community research project
We hold integrity in our community relationships. We also need an income. Holding both at the same time is the question this pilot sets out to answer, together.
The question has been alive in our community for a long time. At the NVC International Intensive in Queensland in January 2013, conversations about income generation kept returning to three kinds of belief.
“I have struck the match many times to try to flourish in my business, I've put in a committed effort and met plenty of the challenges and learned much along the way.”
Kaz T. Anderson
In my generating income story, I've met my own fear, shame, anger and grief and been able to go from charging $120.00 per coaching hour to now selling packages for $3,600.00. Breaking these individual and cultural patterns has been challenging alone.
Working together has not been an idyllic picnic either. Team dynamics, leadership, legal structure and income sharing all test our intention for Power With. Having a mutual wellbeing agreement as a first step is critical.
We're soaking in the same Western culture: individualist, capitalist, patriarchal, military complex and colonial ideas. Mine came with an Air Force childhood and a household where money ‘did not grow on trees’, even though, by the facts, we had plenty.
Separating the facts (observations) from the fiction (evaluations) is the first piece of work.
Beneath the stories sits a perceived unmet need to feel safe and valued. The strategies we inherited for correcting and protecting when we feel unsafe or not valued are completely understandable, and have been the best we've known how to do.
"Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognise that our wellbeing and the wellbeing of others are in fact one and the same."
Dr Marshall Rosenberg, 1934 to 2015
Our thriving and our joy too. On that basis then, income, which is an energy for wellbeing, is something we're more likely to enjoy as a process if we're designing and playing together (instead of carrying it alone).
When I tried to practise that, first with my family in 2016 and later with an NVC purpose team, I found I longed for three things: an NVC paradigm in common, a shared map of the cultural and inherited power dynamics we are all living inside, and structural integrity in how we agree power works.
Our culture offers either a hierarchy, or a circle where everyone is equal. That binary runs deep, and I have watched unspoken arguments about it undo good teams.
I vision structural integrity conversations where we design for flourishing that can hold more than either / or.
I call it wellbeing coordination. It gives us six areas of life to relate to, and four practices that neuroscience shows light up the brain as states of wellbeing: compassion, generosity, gratitude and dignity.
In this pilot we focus on one area, finances. The other five will be explored in future phases.
The current pilot sits inside the research year with the Australian NVC community (which started in July 2026) and will continue between December 2026 and June 2027. Phase 1 of the pilot is eight online sessions that end with a draft of a Mutual Wellbeing Agreement that can be part of the foundation for Phase 2.
What have we inherited about income and integrity?
What do we value, but overlook in our financial choices?
What would we agree on if we decided to play together in 2027?
Phase 2 is for those who want to continue to play together. We work with the Community Canvas to explore our shared purpose, values and definition of success. Phase 2 may not start until March, a decision for those who choose to move forward.
Eight Tuesday sessions on Zoom, with a break over the summer holidays.
Dates have been amended to allow for a holiday break over the New Year. Phase 2 may not start until March, a decision for those who choose to move forward.
*Proposed start time, to be confirmed by an availability poll.
Content for the sessions will include: belief audit, joy audit, designing the money game, joint promotion agreement, and drafting the Mutual Wellbeing Agreement.
Focus content for the sessions will be prepared and co-created as the weeks together unfold.
NVC colleagues who would like to try something different from the individual route, and who are willing to be experimenters with me.
It sits inside the 2026 to 2027 NVC community research project into the business of mutual thriving. That work looks at community technology systems, community business models, longevity and wellbeing research, and economics and social value, to learn how other communities are solving these same problems and then brings that knowledge into consideration as we design the Wellbeing Team.
Nothing here is a finished program. We build it, test it and adjust it together.
I am Kaz T. Anderson, a social entrepreneur, facilitator and speaker based in Melbourne. I have practised NVC for more than fifteen years and founded Activate Wellbeing as a coaching and consulting company serving the NVC and For-Purpose Community in Australia.
My work sits where community development, nonviolent communication, technology and power dynamics meet. I have spent ten years looking for a way to make NVC consciousness, power dynamics consciousness and structural integrity work together. This pilot is my next experiment.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Practising structural and relational integrity with power is at the heart of doing income and integrity together. It rests on three things, combined in a Mutual Wellbeing Agreement.
Enjoying the business of our mutual thriving. Come and talk it through with colleagues.
If you're willing, please watch the video once you've registered (if you haven't already).
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