* All we are doing is a gift from us and an invitation to gift to us *

This NGL courses are offered as a gift to everyone who registers. We never charge for anything we offer.

At the very same time, we completely depend on financial gifts given to us freely to sustain our capacity to do what we do and continue to offer what is ours to offer. Because of this, we want everyone who registers to consider their own financial situation and our needs before deciding whether and how much they will give us. If, after this discernment, people choose to give nothing, we see it as a sign of trust in our commitment to the gift paradigm. We get pleasure out of knowing that in this way we make our offerings available to some people who usually don't have access to the resources necessary for similar offerings elsewhere even as we mourn that such disparities in access exist in the first place.

We vulnerably ask you to fully connect with the needs we are making visible below as well as with your own needs and financial situation, and choose the maximum amount you can gift us without resentment or overstretching. We operate from trust in life that when doing it this way, people will be moved to give us money to care for the material needs of those of us who gift our energy to NGL.

We want to acknowledge that engaging in this way requires more effort than most of us are used to. It's definitely easier to just see an amount and decide if it's within our means or not. We are asking you to join with us in this experimentation – which also gives you a taste of how we function both within NGL and within this course, where liberation and conscious discernment are central.

*Our needs*

Most of what is in this section is now available in a video conversation that you can access here.  

In 2025, it took approximately €500,000 to care for our minimal infrastructure and for the basic material needs – such as shelter, food, healthcare, transportation, clothing, and utilities, including internet to do our work – of more than thirty people who gift their energy and do all it takes for NGL to function. 

Over the last couple of years, we have reached a plateau in terms of resources flowing to us. Some part of it is a response to worsening economic conditions around the world. Some part of it is that we have not yet managed to make our work known in wider circles, and there are only so many people who know of us and choose to support us. And some part of it is that functioning on the basis of needs rather than abstract principles such as market value is often overwhelming. 

What this means is that we operate at reduced capacity, often in overwhelm, and with many voids that hinder us from making it more known what we do, what we are learning, and how many more people and groups could live and function, even now, in more alignment with life's flow. 

You, reading this, may already feel this overwhelm. If so, we ask that you take a breath and connect with the vision that lives in you and that brought you here, and then read on. Or, if this is really daunting, scroll below to where we give some guidelines to help you choose an amount. 

Our best estimate of what it would take for us to break out of this plateau -- so more people can be sustained through the gifts we receive and help us make what we do and how we can contribute to individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and movements align with their vision, values, and purpose -- is about $650,000, which is $150,000 more than last year. We anticipate this supporting about 4-6 more people to join our core group. 

*Where money comes to us from*

Most of the money that comes to us is the gifts of hundreds of people and a few organizations who respond to our requests – either because they have participated in some of our offerings, or simply because they want what we do to continue to be possible. Most of the gifts are small amounts of money that add up, and we received €100,000 from one person who strongly believes in what we are doing and supports it consistently. There are about thirty other people who gift their energy and love to NGL and have other ways of caring for their material needs, including a few who also give us financial gifts.

Through 2025, a significant part of the financial gifts coming to us came through people signing up for courses offered by the NVC Academy. Starting in 2026, the NVC Academy is no longer hosting live courses, and we are going to be doing the registrations and hosting of all our courses. We have noticed over the years that people contribute more when they sign up for courses through the NVC Academy than when they sign up for courses and other offerings that we host ourselves. We don’t know why this is so, and we are asking you to take in deeply just how dependent we are on your choice of how much you will give us. We ask for this reflection especially if this is your first time joining a course through us and we encourage you to learn more about our gift economy here.

In addition to all the above, up until now we have had a fund that was available to us after the closure of BayNVC, the organization that was our fiscal sponsor through 2022 – and this fund has now been used completely. This means that even more money will be needed this year.

We want to repeat: we take pleasure in knowing that many people who do not have the means to give us gifts are regularly attending our offerings. And we depend on others who do have the means to do so to give us financial gifts to keep doing what we are doing. Each time you participate in one of our offerings, we invite you to reflect anew on this request.