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In this clip from the 2025 Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Jesse Wiens Chu explores how to navigate negativity in everyday conversations using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and empathy. He emphasizes staying grounded by first tending to one’s own react...

In this reflection, Rachelle Lamb shares her experience of meeting Marshall Rosenberg for the first time. She describes how one heartfelt question revealed the essence of Nonviolent Communication and left a lasting impression. The moment marked the beginning of something she had been searching for.

Oren Jay Sofer explains how we can stay grounded and maintain choice during overwhelming or emotionally charged conversations. He highlights the importance of presence—feeling our feet, noticing our breath, and expanding our awareness—to counter the fight-or-flight response and self-regulate. Ore...

Oren Jay Sofer shares how to stay present and grounded during difficult conversations, especially when we feel judged or criticized. He describes how awareness of bodily sensations—such as tension, trembling, or the urge to react—can help us channel our energy in a constructive way. Oren highligh...

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Aya Caspi demonstrates a role play using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to connect with someone holding polarized political beliefs. Watch how she uncovers underlying needs, fosters empathy, and models compassionate listening while staying present to her ow...

Why do so many organizational change efforts fail despite significant investment? In this teaching, Miki Kashtan explores Marshall Rosenberg's distinction between peripheral change and radical change, arguing that lasting transformation only occurs when the way decisions are made changes—not just...

Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: When you experience an emotion, your body send a message to your brain that lights up the amygdala. Then what? Listen as Sarah Peyton demonstrates the NVC practice of Naming the Feeling and Need, which calms the amygdala and enables you to move into relational...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki responds to a 2014 NVC in Business Conference participant’s question concerning the focus on needs over other aspects of NVC in business communication.
Keywords:

- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- needs
- strategies
- connection
- values
- leade...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Miki talk about the value of participating in groups, recognizing our inherent nature to do so, how industrialization has hindered our skills and the value of participating in a time when it's most needed.
Keywords:

- expression
- honesty
- self ...

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 ...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How can I deal with someone who is constantly interrupting and derailing our process?
Keywords:

- conflict resolution
- groups
- collaboration
- Group Facilitation Tips
- interrupting
- facilitation
- facilitator
- sharing NVC
- teaching NVC
- teach...

Liv Larsson, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
I recently attended an NVC workshop where the focus was entirely upon empathy, and expressing honestly was not covered. Aren't both empathy and honesty both vital components of NVC?
—NVC Academy member
Trainer Answer
Dear NVC Acade...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer: Is there any difference between the concept or experience of "love" and that of "empathy?"

Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Are you familiar with the NVC model or been practicing for a while and still get “stuck” when you want to use it? Or, maybe it just doesn’t sound natural sometimes? Or, sound like you at all?
Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian guide and ease you int...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie leads listeners through a guided meditation to experience the energy of needs that was created and written by Barbara Larson, CNVC Certified Trainer. This meditation will support you to connect to your feelings and needs in the moment, and to ...

Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, offers a profound insight that can change how we see and relate to our children.
This recording is an excerpt from Inbal's audio CD, Connected Pare...

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...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: What would it be like if we raised children who already knew how to be inclusive, who already understood climate change, and who knew that they had a role in keeping our planet liveable? Roxy Manning believes that how we parent can support the next generation ...

Nonviolent Communication is presented as a spiritual practice that transforms both our inner relationship with ourselves and the way we connect with others. Robert Gonzales explores how feelings serve as guideposts to the beauty and fullness of our needs, inviting us to experience them as life-gi...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:

Receiving anger from another can be a reactive trigger for many of us. In this brief segment, Arnina provides us a strategy for staying in the conversation instead of physically leaving.

Keywords:

anger
strategy
fear
triggers
connection requests
Arnina Ka...

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...

Aya Caspi, Certified NVC Trainer:

Aya describes Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a restorative practice one that reconnects us with life, trust, and the experience of mattering. She reflects on Marshall Rosenberg's vision of NVC as a "language of life," helping us shift from disconnection to c...