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  • Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects White People, Fishbowl Discussion

    Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jeff Brown for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege white people.

    What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in full view of...

  • 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...

  • 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:

    - listening
    ...

  • 3 Steps to Reflect on When a Social Change Strategy is not Working

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning, Phd, shares in this short video three steps on how to reflect on what needs are being served when deciding to implement a strategy. Why are we so attached to strategies that are not working?

    - Understand your motives
    - Have a empathic su...

  • Navigating Racial Complexity: Balancing Intention and Impact in Facilitation

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning suggests that in navigating a situation where accusations of racism and a white savior complex arise, the facilitator emphasizes the distinction between intention and impact. Acknowledging the pain of the aggrieved person, the facilitator clarifie...

  • 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:

    - Relationships — how being in relationship with others is a natural and deeply i...

  • Dealing with Loss: Engaging with Someone's Grief for the World

    Kristin Masters, Certified NVC Trainer: When faced with someone's grief for the world, how do you engage with them in a way that is informed? In this session, Kristin suggests exploring what they might be grieving, what they're afraid of losing, and what it is that they love.
    Keywords:

    - los...

  • NVC Life Hacks 16: Recovering Perfectionist

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you just keep going with a task, even if your body is screaming for a pause? Maybe you leave tasks incomplete because you can't finish them the way you want? Do you not even attempt some tasks because you know that you won't be able to do them perfec...

  • NVC Life Hacks 5: Conflict

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Conflict occurs when disagreements undermine the sense of trust and safety in family, workplace, or community. Shantigarbha shares nine tips for addressing, and even transforming conflict.

    Keywords:

    - partnership
    - tips
    - relationships
    ...

  • Conversations about Death

    Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer: It seems death cafes are everywhere these days. But how changed are we by the conversations we're now having? Not everyone is open to talking about death. It may well be that someone in your life is nearing the end of their days and their refusal to talk abou...

  • How do I bring NVC into a job that isn't suited for NVC?

    Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: What if you work in construction or someplace that you are concerned would not to be open to bringing in Nonviolent Communication(NVC)? The answer depends on what you mean when you say, "Bring NVC into business."

    Keywords:

    - empathy
    - feelings
    -...

  • 7 Transformative Conversations

    Mukti Jarvis, Certified NVC Trainer: Mukti Jarvis shares seven types of conversations vital to healthy, flourishing intimate relationships. These conversations include:

    - Our Bright Future
    - Drama Dialogue
    - Healing Our Raw Spots
    - Making Amends
    - Responsiveness
    - Touch and Sex
    - ...

  • Expressing and Receiving No in NVC Consciousness

    John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: How we deal with “no” is a litmus test of our state of consciousness around power. It is how we see if we are truly making a request or a demand, both in how we respond to someone when we don’t receive a “yes” from them or when we don’t have a “yes” to give som...

  • Punishment, Needs and the Protective Use of Force

    Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer: For many years I have been using crime and punishment (reward and consequences) to discipline because it was the only thing I knew. I knew deep in my heart it was alienating me...

  • The Compass - Taking Responsibility in the Face of Guilt and Judgment

    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: The Compass – Arnina Kashtan's in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only...

  • Tao of Empathy: Session 4

  • Tao of Empathy: Session 3

  • Tao of Empathy: Session 2

  • NVC Life Hacks 37: Connecting Your Feelings With Your Body

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: We can get stuck in our heads. All kinds of thoughts float into our minds. We then get thoughts about those thoughts, they might even make you feel a certain way or change a behaviour. But what happens when we connect our feelings with the physical sens...

  • 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...

  • Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim leads a self-connection exercise focused on how our lives are interwoven with people we love, acquaintances, people unknown to us, and even those who have come before us or will come after us.
    Keywords:

    - consciousness
    - exercises/practices
    - pres...

  • Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC

    Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: Sarah Peyton explains how your brain's left hemisphere excels at pattern making. NVC can help integrate both hemispheres, enabling you to use the left side's love of patterns for abstract thinking.

    Keywords:

    - hierarchy
    - neurobiology
    - neuros...

  • Managing Collaboratively: New, Empowered Ways to Get Things Done

    Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Enjoy Dian's overview of the 4-step model and its application to the workplace. Learn how NVC can help you: generate intrinsic motivation… discover creative solutions… create greater accountability and buy-in…reinforce behaviors you like and change others… and...

  • Holding the Group's Needs

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares a tip on holding a group's needs while empathizing with a single person in the group.
    This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

    Keywords:

    - acceptance...