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Discovering our Unconscious Biases
Authentic Communication Group:
As human beings, our inherent goodness makes most of us believe in equality and yet sometimes our conviction in this same 'goodness' may make us blind to the reality of our own behavior. We are so convinced about the innocence of our intention that we cease to loo...
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Houses of Healing: Kathleen Macferran at TEDx
Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer: Are we really safer when we put those who harm others behind bars and forget about them? Explore turning our prisons into houses of healing and creating connections that lead to greater safety for our communities. Listen to Kathleen offer examples of emp...
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Expressing Anger Peacefully
Raj Gill, Certified NVC Trainer: In this prerecorded telecourse, Raj Gill uses an interactive dialogue to help you transform old habits and to develop a new, and profoundly healthy response to anger. While cultural norms often teach us to suppress or control anger, Nonviolent Communication sugges...
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Experience More Joy and Success at Work
Dian Killian PhD, Gregg Kendrick, Martha Lasley, Mary Mackenzie, Melanie Sears, Wes Taylor, Certified NVC Trainer: A recent study showed that the number one thing great bosses all had in common was their ability to understand and care about their employees and team members. Join us as six senior...
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Embodying the Consciousness of NVC: Session 2
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Prepare for Love: Session 11
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From Domination to Partnership
Kirsten Kristensen, Certified NVC Trainer: How can we create a partnership and eye-level dialog with people who we perceive to have more power? Kirsten Kristensen creates a practice of humanizing ourselves and others through empathy, practicing scary honesty, and making requests that serve both p...
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Fear of Negative Consequences
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible...
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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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Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful
Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.
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Navigating Conflict: Session 1
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Parenting Series: Understanding Requests and Demands
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Inbal speaks to a group about our habit of demanding something of our children but making it sound like a request, the components of a true request and the importance of being honest when making a demand. Through an inspirational dialogue, Inbal demonstrates ...
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How Do I Begin Bringing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to Work?
Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Jeff Brown explains that it's truly easy to begin bringing NVC to your workplace. Start internally and avoid using NVC as a structured or "right" way to speak. And also, two low-risk, high reward strategies are: express gratitude and appreciation for others, and...
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Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment: Session 6
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Choice in the Face of Demands
Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way?Would you like to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic?No one likes demands. Some of the time we respond to perceived demands by saying “Yes” out of fear; and some of the time...
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Getting Past Childhood Trauma: Transform Chronic Messages: Session 8
To support wider access to NVC learning, we’re offering this course free to watch until September 1, 2026.
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Two Self-Empathy Exercises
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out. This session is from the NVC Academy's 2017 Telethon. Listen in as Mary offers two experiential self-empathy exercises: I Love It When, and What Do I Want / Why Do I Want It. Deepen your ability to connect with self...
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NVC Life Hacks 9: If Yes Really Means No
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this NVC Life Hack, we look at those circumstances when we're saying yes ... but only kinda! Because we're still actually saying no. Shantigarbha and Gesine look at the needs that aren't being met.
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The Vortex of Submission: Session 5
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The Vortex of Submission: Session 8
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The Vortex of Submission: Session 6
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NVC Life Hacks 4: Anger
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Anger is an emotion we'd often like to disown! Shantigarbha offers us five tips for "finding the life" in our anger, and ends with a short, guided reflection.
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Parenting Tip: How to Engage when Young Children Comment on Differences
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares some strategies to support a child's natural curiosity when asking questions about physical differences using NVC skills.
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Integrating NVC: Session 4