Beyond NVC Basics
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Effective Collaboration
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Plowing ahead without collaboration can result in taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Would you enjoy more ease and co-operation with others? More partnership? More warmth?
Learning more about collaborating effectively can help you:
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Experiencing Feelings Outside of Right & Wrong
Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:
Many of us have been raised within a right/ wrong culture. From very young ages, we are asked, "What is wrong?" Yvette Erasmus shares a different view where emotions can be seen as expansion and contraction, where they can help us identify our needs.
I celebrate fe...
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Finding Our Authentic Expression
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan offers 3 steps we can take to access and express our deepest authentic expression.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.
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- NVC consciousness
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How Submission and Rebellion Erode Goodwill
Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer: When you say yes, check if you are saying it out of submission. Similarly, when you say no, are you saying it genuinely or out of rebellion? Marshall Rosenberg calls this a loss or erosion of goodwill which can destroy or undermine relationships. In this vide...
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How to present "harm being done" in an NVC way
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning, Phd, answers a question from a participant in one of Roxy's class: how do we use the term "harm" in NVC? Roxy offers questions to think about how to deal when someone says "harm is being done".
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- social change
- Roxy Manning
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How to Use Positive Language When Making Requests
Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer: Yoram Mosenzon suggests that when we make positive language requests, we tell people what we want. We give them an image of what would make life more wonderful. What we usually do is tell people what we do not want. This tends to create resistance.
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Calling In vs Calling Out
How can Nonviolent Communication (NVC) create more constructive conversations in the workplace? Lorraine Aguilar explores the key difference between calling someone in and calling them out, emphasizing the power of care over annoyance. Discover three essential NVC strategies for professional envi...
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I Don't Know Whether to Express Myself or Offer Empathy
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan discusses how focusing on connection and care can guide us in expressing honestly and offering empathy.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.
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Increase Your Capacity and Diminish Separation Habits
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: The human species is trained and habituated towards separation. This model encourages humans to either give up on their needs or fight for their needs. In this short video, Miki shares how increasing capacity shifts habits of separation and supports holding of...
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Life-Serving Boundaries
Elia Paz, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Elia Paz as she shares a story that beautifully illustrates how boundaries are akin to consciously directing our precious energy. She artfully expands upon this concept by highlighting that life-serving boundaries embody the wisdom of discernment.
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Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill
Lorraine Aguilar, Certified NVC Trainer: Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from "What's w...
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Listening Beyond the Words: Respect, Needs, and Choice
Oren Jay Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: What do we do when someone speaks to us in a way that doesn't feel respectful? In this video, Oren Jay Sofer explores how NVC invites us to listen for the feelings and needs behind harsh or judgmental words — not because we "should," but because it gives us ...
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Making Your Empathy Guesses More Natural
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Mary Mackenzie as she offers a simple approach incorporating NVC into everyday conversations. Her observation is that sometimes speaking NVC empath guesses of feelings and needs can feel un-natural or robotic. A possible solution is to slightly shift th...
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Navigating Polarizing Conversations
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you find yourself in difficult conversations, wishing to be understood? Do you receive comments that you do not know how to navigate effectively?
Does it sometimes seem that the other person wants to argue? Do you long to connect in ways that can me... -
Navigating Uncertainty: The Power of Present-Centered Decision-Making
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In uncertain times, when facing important life decisions, it's common to get caught up in imagining various scenarios and potential outcomes. The desire to predict and control the future often gives a false sense of security. The key is to make decisions based...
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NVC Life Hacks 10: Winter Blues
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Quite a few of us find the darker winter months emotionally tricky. If you're one of those sorts of people, here are three NVC-oriented tips to help you through to spring!
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- seasonal affective disorder
- tips
- Shatigharba Warren
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NVC Life Hacks 15: Scary Honesty
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: It's normal for us to keep something inside, avoiding sharing it with someone else as the risk may feel too high. Maybe they will reject me, or be offended and not speak to me again? It can be difficult to know when to share your truth and when to keep ...
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NVC Life Hacks 18: How to Give Quick Feedback
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Giving feedback can be a difficult task, sometimes we try to avoid getting to the point and instead end up spending a long time attempting to communicate. We find there are mostly two types of feedback. The first focuses on what is wrong with the person...
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NVC Life Hacks 19: How to Give Values-Based Feedback
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this Life Hack, we take a closer look at 'values-based' feedback and give you 7 practical tips that will help you provide useful feedback.
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NVC Life Hacks 20: How to Receive Feedback
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: We all know what it's like to be on the end of feedback that we receive as clumsy, unbalanced or even spiteful. We don't have any control over the skill level of people who give us feedback, or their motivations. So how do we receive feedback without ta...
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NVC Life Hacks 22: Embodied NVC Part One: Fight, Flight, Freeze
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When we're faced with certain situations we tend to go into a fight, flight or freeze mode. While these can sometimes be helpful and even lifesaving, they can also be crippling when the situation may not be life-threatening. In this episode, we give you...
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NVC Life Hacks 23: Embodied NVC Part Two Empathy Skills
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Welcome to Part Two of our 3 part Embodied NVC Life Hack series. Last time we looked at rewiring your brain to navigate our primitive mind and sometimes default reactions such as fight, flight or freeze when faced with conflict. In this episode, we're g...
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NVC Life Hacks 24: Bridge & Self Expression
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Welcome to the final video in our 3 part Embodied NVC Life Hack series. So far we've learnt about rewiring our brain from a flight, fright or freeze reaction to the choice of self-empathy, allowing us to centre and check-in with ourselves. In part two, ...
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NVC Life Hacks 28: Celebrating Life
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Sometimes life gets so busy that even the things you enjoy seem to go by without you receiving that feeling of joy. It's important that even when we are busy to celebrate life to the full. In this month's Life Hack Gesine explores 7 things to keep in mi...