Dear NVC Community,

After a lifetime of trying to scale what I believe to be lifesaving work, I am beginning the journey of scaling down. We, at The Bigbie Method, have tried everything we could possibly think of to get this work deeply rooted in as many people as possible. Our efforts have included:

1) Spending years and thousands on building a scalable, performance-based curriculum that can be accessed worldwide

2) Recording close to 200 podcast episodes

3) Writing my book - My Link to Mildred - Interrupting the Epidemic of Trauma via NVC

4) Posting weekly blog posts

5) Posting weekly social media posts

6) Sending a weekly newsletter

7) Paying for Google ads and analyzing trends

8) Hiring a marketing expert

9) Offering free video content

10) Developing and implementing an extensive sales strategy

I know these efforts have made an impact and supported many people, organizations, and businesses. I am grateful to all the people who have shared and supported my vision, especially my advisory team, my facilitators, Ryan and my husband. However, all the efforts and support have not been enough to keep TBM going as it currently is. I’m tired.

So, we are making some considerable changes to scale back time, effort and resources to keep it going. The Intro Course will now be offered as a self-paced course for $97. If someone cannot afford to pay, they can reach out to me, and I will waive the fee as I don’t want money to be a barrier for anyone: the material is too important.

In the past, the Intro Course had the weekly live zoom practice sessions in our Empathy Gym that went along w the self-paced material. That part of the Intro is going away except that participants will be invited to try out the live zoom Empathy Gym practice sessions when they get to week 7 and 8 in the curriculum.

For the time being, we will continue to honor the memberships for those of you currently enrolled in the Empathy Gym. I’m hoping to keep Empathy Gym practice sessions going in some format but think that the level up system in Empathy Gym will likely go away eventually (and unfortunately) because it takes considerable resources to keep it going and few people are currently taking advantage of it.

I appreciate you taking the time to read all of this. I hope you understand why I’m making this difficult decision and can support it or that you will use your NVC skills to communicate otherwise.

To let people know about the $97 Intro Course you can direct them here. I feel sad that it won’t have as much practice as in the past, but I still believe there is a ton of valuable content. Once people finish the Intro, they can join the Empathy Gym and practice.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me back. I hope this is not too hard for people to hear. I am sad but in acceptance.

Warmly

Cindy