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.
To grow our empathy skills, we mu...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary continues her discussion of tracking skills, focusing on tracking requests, agreements with the group and tracking time. Mary also examines how to monitor the purpose of the session, discerning if and when to shift the agreement about the purpose for me...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary offers tips for developing effective tracking skills, including how the energy of the group is managed discerning the qualities of presence for each of the members, and monitoring group participation and striving for a balance of inclusion.

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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Borrowing teaching exercises from other people is fun and can be relatively easy. However, when we develop our own activities, our learning of the topic that we're teaching is magnified and deepened even more. Developing our own teaching exercises is a power...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer

Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful and challenging aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consc...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Mary tackle one of the greatest challenges of facilitating an NVC group: How do you deal with hecklers and people you don't like? Mary offers insightful tips and helpful guidance.

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- Group Facilitation Tips
- groups
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: For many people thinking about creating a workshop outline is overwhelming because they focus on the whole thing at once. Breaking the process down to bite-size pieces eliminates much stress and overwhelm and brings fun and creativity to the process. here's ...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Ever wondered how to balance everyone's needs when leading a NVC group? In the first part of this interactive video, Mary shares tips on how to balance the facilitator's, the individuals members' and the group's needs. In the second part, Mary talks about tr...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Do your emotions ever feel overwhelming or out of control? You're not alone. In this heartfelt video, Mary Mackenzie shares a simple yet transformative technique inspired by Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that helped her move past the fear of feeling too muc...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever found yourself passing judgment on a co-worker's seemingly disorganized desk? Mary Mackenzie's experience sheds light on the fact that she and her colleague with the "messy desk" shared a common need for order. Recognizing that our needs align ...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie shares her understanding and experience of empathy.

Included in this inspiring video are:

- Clarity about "tragic expressions of unmet needs," a phrase originally coined by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg, creator of Nonviolent Communication...

One of the core principles of Nonviolent Communication is the understanding that everything people say or do is an attempt to meet a need. In this teaching, Mary Mackenzie explores how shifting to this perspective can transform how we interpret difficult or frustrating behavior. When we recognize...

AK-LL-MM-RM-SBM, Certified NVC Trainer: Please listen as we discuss and grapple with the issues of growing polarization in our world, political structures and personal relationships.

Dian Killian PhD, Gregg Kendrick, Martha Lasley, Mary Mackenzie, Melanie Sears, Wes Taylor, Certified NVC Trainer: A recent study showed that the number one thing great bosses all had in common was their ability to understand and care about their employees and team members. Join us as six senior...

Barbara Larson, Deborah Bellamy, Jeff Brown, Kristin Masters, Louise Romain and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Does your workplace convey a sense of “community?” And how does that sense of community you feel at work differ from what’s present at your church, your sangha or dojo? What abou...

Jeff Brown, Jean Morrison, Kathleen Macferran, Karl Steyaert, Mary Mackenzie, Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jeff Brown, Jean Morrison, Karl Steyaert, Kathleen Macferran, Mary Mackenzie and Sylvia Haskvitz in a lively Q&A session focusing on naturalizing NVC ...

Mary Mackenzie and Susan Skye, Certified NVC Trainer: In this compelling dialogue, veteran CNVC Certified Trainers, Susan Skye and Mary Mackenzie, discuss the intrinsic needs present in addictive behaviors, and how Nonviolent Communication aligns with the 12-step programs’ process for treating ad...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie to learn a few of her tried-and-true simple Self-Empathy techniques, especially focused on the challenges of the holiday season.
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- consciousness
- feelings
- presence
- self empathy
- compassion
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Mary Mackenzie takes the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs to a much deeper and more profound level by adding a "wrapping" component. By staying in the process as Mary demonstrates, you...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Want to expand your needs vocabulary, and build your capacity to identify needs — even when you’ve been triggered? Check out Mary’s powerful teaching on Self-Empathy.
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- triggers
- expression
- self empowerment
- jackal talk
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: “Everything someone does or says is an attempt to meet a need,” says CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie. This simple statement is a foundational understanding in Nonviolent Communication; once you gain skills at living in a “needs-consciousness” you will ...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: This holiday, shift your focus from what disappoints you to the true whisperings of your heart. Compassion is an inside-outside process. It starts with acknowledging what’s important to you and then naturally flows from you. In this telecourse recording, you...

Christine King, Faye Landey, Liv Larsson, Mary Mackenzie and Rita Herzog, Certified NVC Trainer: Many of us have our cars checked / tuned-up regularly, yet we all too easily forget about checking in with ourselves – especially during the holidays. Let’s face it: the stores and malls are crowded a...

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 ...