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Responding to Everyday Racism Role Plays
Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon as they present two role-play scenarios showcasing diverse approaches to navigating difficult conversations. Throughout the demonstration, they underscore the significance of cultivating self-empathy and mind...
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Cultivating Vitality
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori share their work integrating Martin Seligman's work on Positive Psychology with Nonviolent Communication in a 5-point system they call REMAP, focusing on:
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Embrace Positivity: Transform Life through Joyful Choices and Conscious Action
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Marshall Rosenberg used to talk about every situation with the same level of joy a child might feel. This may seem impossible at first! But when you focus on all the ways something is hard, you miss out on the full experience and remove your sense of choice....
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NVC Life Hacks 3: How to Listen
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In the third in a series on applying NVC to daily life, Shantigarbha follows directly on from Episode 2, showing us that listening isn't a passive activity, and offers five tips for how to improve our listening skills.
Keywords:
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The Empathy Factor in Workplaces Where People Thrive: Session 2
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Social Change: Inclusion and Shared Power: Session 2
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Using Images in Your Empathy Guessing
Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Dian Killian and discover the power of imagery and metaphor in deepening your empathy practice. This segment from her 6 session course explores how visualizing sensations, emotions, and needs through metaphorical language can enhance the connection during...
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How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects White People
Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Jeff Brown moderates a fishbowl discussion discussing why it's uncomfortable for them to talk about privilege, what they're doing to be aware of / combat racism, and the role of empathy and NVC around privilege.
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Groups Tip Series: How Can I Support More Collaboration?
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: It seems to me that people see ideas which are different from theirs as threatening. Instead of listening, the group polarizes around the different ideas and a lot of judgments develop, conflicts develop and people feel hurt. Forward progress becomes a battle ...
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Feelings vs Feelings Mixed with Thought (NVC Key Differentiations #9)
Katrina Vaillancourt, CNVC Certified Trainer and Mediator, shares that the key distinctions of NVC are valuable in our quest to live in a more compassionate, heart-centered way. She asserts that this Key Distinction, when fully understood, has the power to create paradigm shifts in the way you ex...
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Empathy Buddy Practice Helps Develop Empathy Skills
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Are you looking to deepen your connection to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and build powerful empathy skills? In this short video, Mary Mackenzie shares how finding an empathy buddy transformed her life and practice. From learning to give and receive empath...
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Facilitating Deeper Understanding
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a me...
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Persisting Vs Demanding (NVC Key Differentiations #18)
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Empathizing with Loved Ones
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie explains that empathizing with our closest loved ones can be difficult because they matter so deeply to us, past experiences might create emotional barriers, and we might fear losing ourselves in the process.
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Facilitating Connection
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable.
This recording will demonstrate how the power of our honesty is enhanced by ending on a clear and present reque... -
Feast for the Soul: Awakening
Kathy Ziola, Certified NVC Trainer: Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable. From the depths of internal winter to the melting open in the warm sunshine of spring to rest in the ocean of Spirit,...
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A Strong Man: A Children’s Story
Leo Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to this captivating story by Leo Sofer. A strong blacksmith comes to the aid of a little girl when she needs protecting. But can he protect her from the harsh words she speaks to herself inside her head?
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I Want to Repair a Relationship, But I am Scared
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan hosts Living Room Radio Show on KPFA Radio 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, USA. Listen as she works with a mother who is experiencing a strained relationship with her recently married daughter after a verbal “attack” from the daughter. Miki guides...
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Open-Hearted Disagreement
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki demonstrates how to work with judgmental thinking, offering a two-step process to shift from right/wrong thinking about our disagreements to a more open-hearted state of being.
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Choice in Every Moment
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: This 31-minute audio with Miki Kashtan is packed full of power as she uncovers the dynamics of choice that are present 100% of the time, in every situation, regardless of the circumstances. She encourages us to reach for a consciousness that acknowledges our a...
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Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In most business environments, purpose holds a higher priority than connection. Listen to Miki discuss the strategy of using minimum connection to remain true to the purpose at hand, and how the purpose of empathy may differ in the workplace. She suggests crea...
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NVC Life Hacks 25: Deepening the Roots of Self-Empathy
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this Life Hack, we're going deeper into self-empathy with a simple guided reflection that you can work through. This will be followed by a short exercise with a fill-in sheet (link above) led by Gesine and is something you can come back to as you wis...
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It's Hard to Communicate When My Partner Drinks
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan hosted Living Room Radio Show on KPFA Radio 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, USA. Listen as she works with a a woman whose relationship is challenged by what happens when her lover drinks. In this segment, Miki encourages the caller to get support ...
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Workplace Series: Distinction Between Giving Feedback and Wanting to Be Heard
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Miki make an important distinction between giving feedback, which is grounded in a desire to contribute to another, and our own need to be heard.
Keywords:- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- needs
- requests
- self empathy
- strategies
- co...