Conflict Resolution
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Supporting NVC Consciousness Especially When Others Don't Know NVC
In this clip from the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Duke Duchscherer explores how to live Nonviolent Communication (NVC) even when others around you are unfamiliar with it. He shares how creating simple, shared systems—especially for conflict—can help families, workplaces, and communities s...
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Navigating Power Dynamics with NVC: 6 Session Course
8 items
Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 6 hours 33 minutes, plus PDF workbook
Recorded in 2024This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/navigating-power-dynamics-with-nvcThis item is also available for streaming as part of the NVC Library...
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Confirmation and Feedback Requests
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori Manske share the wisdom of Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join them to learn why knowing what you want before speaking is essential for clear, meaningful interactions. This snippet from their eight session ...
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De-escalate Yourself: 3 Centering Practices in Times of Conflict
Jesse Wiens Chu, Certified NVC Trainer: In times of conflict, it's easy to lose touch with ourselves and our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to se...
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Equitable Facilitation: Navigating Attention, Needs, and Impact in Group Dynamic
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares that facilitating equitable group dynamics involves tracking attention, needs, purpose alignment, resources, and impact. Identifying patterns in attention distribution, centered needs, and maintaining alignment with the purpose enhances inc...
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Exploring Needs Behind Punitive vs. Restorative Approaches
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer explores responding to people who are committed to a punitive process rather than a restorative process. He suggests looking for what needs are met by the punitive process. Could those needs be met in a restorative process?
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From Control to Collaboration: Reclaiming Shared Decision-Making
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares how decision-making can move beyond either/or thinking into true integration—where your needs matter and so do others'. She speaks to the vulnerability and power of co-creating choices rooted in mutual care, not control. Miki invites us to ...
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From What's Fair to What's Possible
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: So many of us have been taught to solve conflicts by what is "fair." However, Miki Kashtan states that fairness is a separating concept. In this video, she describes how when we do not have the conditions to care for all needs involved, when we live within sep...
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How Do We Build Relationships?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Building relationships happens through dialogue and understanding the deeper meaning behind the words spoken. It's about active listening that focuses on feelings and needs so you may truly comprehend the speaker's message. In this video, Duke introduces t...
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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... -
NVC Life Hacks 13: Restorative vs Punitive Approaches
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When people get hurt or harmed, how can we restore trust, safety and connection in the community? A restorative approach which focuses on who got hurt and how can we restore it? Rather than whose fault is it and how can we punish them?
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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.
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Guided Dialogue: A Structured Approach to Conflict Resolution
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: In this snippet from Duke Duchscherer's course, Restorative Dialogues: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience, he shares a structured approach for conflict resolution or communication facilitation. It involves a facilitator guiding a conversa...
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What is Community and Community Well-Being?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares that community well-being is created by the relationships that exist within the community. He discerns two vital components: bonding connections within similar groups and bridging connections between different groups. This interplay...
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What is the Cost of NOT Setting Boundaries
Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:
Just as setting boundaries is beneficial to relationships, NOT setting boundaries can come at a big cost. Listen to Yvette Erasmus share her experience with boundary setting, including:
- What are the costs to setting boundaries?
- What are the benefits?
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What is the Role of the Facilitator in a Restorative Circle?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares what the role of the facilitator is in a restorative circle.
- Creating space for dialogue/inviting participation
- Staying in the present moment
- Stays in service of agreements
- Collaborate as a team
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Why Do I love Restorative Circles?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares that Restorative Circles have the ability to transform relationships. Groups may start with feelings of worry, anxiety, fear, anger, and even hatred. The dialogue process supports a shift to more ease, connection, and trust.
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Responding to Blame Without Losing Yourself
Oren Jay Sofer explores how to respond when someone directs anger or blame toward you, especially when their accusations feel inaccurate or unfair. Through an NVC lens, the Oren emphasizes balancing self-respect, honesty, empathy, and clarity about your purpose in the conversation. Viewers learn ...
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The Gift of Conflict
Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer
How do you solve a conflict? By not trying to solve it! Yoram suggests building your conflict resolution muscles by practicing connecting to the needs behind the conflict instead. Check out this excerpt from Session 1 of his 2021 course, Connecting in Confli...
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What Do I Really Need Here?
2 items
Frank Gaschler, Certified NVC Trainer
Conflicts revolve around all sorts of little things, especially when living situations get tight. The socks in the living room, the dishes in the sink, or the coffee cup on the counter. Is it really about the socks, or something deeper? Here we will peel the...
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Do the Right Thing! Move Beyond "Right and Wrong" and into CHOICE
3 items
Kathleen Macferran and Jared Finkelstein, Certified NVC Trainers
This session explores the practice of choosing to untangle right/wrong thinking so you can hold all views with compassion. From this place, we find strategies to address the complexities of needs within differences. Learn to create...