Learn NVC in 5 minutes or less
Learn NVC in 5 minutes or less with short, focused videos that introduce core concepts, practical tools, and everyday applications. These bite-sized lessons are designed for quick insight, clarity, and immediate use. Perfect for busy moments, refreshers, or entry points into Nonviolent Communication.
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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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Using Right & Wrong Language
Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:
Yvette Erasmus shares that we can translate or shift how we hear right and wrong language. We can use the cue - What is needed? I wonder what they are needing? This helps direct my attention to more relationality.
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- language of life
- needs
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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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Unappreciated is NOT a feeling
Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer
Unappreciated, Judged, Disrespected, Offended, Manipulated ... people use these words to describe feelings but these are all words that describe interpretations instead. They're also words that get people's backs up. Talk about unproductive! The solution? Dev...
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Unacknowledged Fear Looks Like Aggression
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Miki Kashtan shares how Marshall Rosenberg helped her see how unacknowledged fear can be misinterpreted as aggression and offers an elegant and simple strategy for changing this dynamic.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC La...
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Transforming Needs Into Compassionate Connection
Iris Bawidamann, Certified NVC Trainer: Iris Bawidamann explains how needs, like appreciation, can easily turn into demands or self-blame when approached from a place of lack or expectation. Instead of blaming others for not meeting our needs or harshly demanding fulfillment from ourselves, livin...
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Tools to Support Relational Attunement
Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:
Yvette Erasmus shares Terry Real's grid as a tool for exploring a spectrum of emotional responses. We all have feelings and sometimes we get dysregulated or frozen up. How do you want to express and be in connection with other people? Can you attune to the relationa...
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The Nature of Your Reactions
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Responding to your own reactivity is an inside job. Robert reveals how your reactions are often a secondary reaction to a triggering stimulus, and that accepting responsibility for your reactions can lead to less blame and more inner peace.
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Seven Easy Steps for Keeping Group Energy High
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: NVC groups can sometimes get caught in a rut and lose energy and momentum. Mary shares her extensive experience with seven steps for keeping your group engaged and energized.
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- groups
- listening
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Safe Spaces and Confidentiality Agreements
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: How to create a safe space for a first time group working on power and privileges ? Roxy Manning, Phd, answers that question and goes deeper into exploring what does it mean to have a space space? Is it actually realistic? Roxy offers a distinction about safe ...
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Repairing Relationships with Empathy
Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: Sarah Peyton explores the process of repairing relationships through the lens of Nonviolent Communication. She emphasizes the importance of self-connection and empathy—both for ourselves and others—when addressing moments of hurt or disconnection. Sarah highli...
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Reducing the Gap in Capacity Range
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Each of us has a range of capacities. Miki Kashtan describes this as a range from "floor to ceiling." Floor capacity is what happens when you hit your limitation, ceiling capacity is when you are closest to functioning in line with your values and vision. This...
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Psychological Safety: Navigating Discomfort for Inclusive Teams
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer
Video free to watch until October 13
Roxy Manning delves into the concept of psychological safety, drawing from Amy Edmondson's definition as the shared belief among team members that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. Roxy discusses the common m...
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Parenting with Purpose: Navigating Challenges to Shape Future Outcomes
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the connection between the challenges parents face with their children and the qualities they want them to develop. She highlights the importance of aligning actions with desired outcomes, using the example that if parents value independ...
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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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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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- tips
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NVC Life Hacks 8: Saying No
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer
It can be difficult to be authentic when that means saying no. So how do we say no in a way that invites people to listen? Here are our four top tips for finding the courage to say no.
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- tips
- saying no
- authenticity
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NVC Life Hacks 7: Facilitation
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Leading a Nonviolent Communication workshop is a good way to learn and practice NVC skills. Here are Shantigrabha and Gesine's seven top tips for facilitators.
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- listening
- tips
- sharing NVC
- facilitation
- facilitator
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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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- partnership
- tips
- relationships
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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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- presence
- relationships
- tips
- partnership
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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.
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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...
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NVC Life Hacks 27: Compassionate Parenting
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When the pressure is on whether that's rushing out the door for the school run or getting them to bed on time, it's easy to leave all our best practices to one side. Luckily Nonviolent Communication gives us some useful tools to add to our metaphorical ...
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NVC Life Hacks 26: Life-enriching education
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: A lot of us picked up new hobbies and learning new things during the COVID lockdown. After recently posting a puzzle on Facebook, Shantigarbha ended up being delightfully surprised at the conversation it began around NVC in relation to learning and educ...