NVC and Families
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Everyday Parenting Challenges
Ingrid Bauer, Certified NVC Trainer
Ingrid Bauer guides parents to navigate everyday parenting challenges using the NVC model, such as the behavior of a frustrated child, a messy room, transition times and a child who collapses when things don’t work out as she had hoped. When parents integrate ...
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Reconciliation & Healing: Working with Marshall Rosenberg's Four Part Process
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg, over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence, developed a 4-part model of reconciliation and healing.
John Kinyon has worked closely with Marshall over many years ... -
How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season
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...
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Connection Based Parenting
30 items
Ian Peaty and Monica Reu, Certified NVC Trainers
Time Investment: 3 hours 25 minutes, plus handouts
Recorded in 2020This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription...
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Inviting Children Into Solutions: An NVC Approach to Parenting
When a child resists school or another challenge, it's easy for parents to get caught in frustration, urgency, and fixed solutions. In this conversation, Lisa Rothman, Miki Kashtan, and Arnina Kashtan demonstrate how self-empathy, acknowledging a child's experience, and inviting collaboration can...
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Mediating Conflict with Kids
Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, Certified NVC Trainer:
In this brief, yet stimulating audio recording, Stephanie Mattei covers several "hot" parenting topics such as: boundary issues, strategy resilience, how to shift your right/wrong mentality and understanding the concept of fairness in your parent... -
Self-Care Matters: From Self-Connection to Better Parenting
Ian Peatey and Monica Reu explore why caring for ourselves is essential to being present, grounded, and connected as parents. They discuss how self-empathy and small, everyday acts of self-care can increase our capacity to empathize with our children, respond consciously, and move beyond habitual...
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Empathy for Little Hands: Practicing Feelings and Needs
Video free to watch until October 31
Join Gina Simm as she guides children through a hands-on empathy activity using feelings and needs cards to explore a relatable situation involving trust, privacy, and a shared secret. Through an empathy guessing process, they explore how another person might ... -
NVC Life Hack 46: Jackal and Giraffe
Gesine and Shantigarbha introduce the jackal and giraffe puppets as a playful way to explore two different ways of communicating in NVC. Through a role play between a parent and teenager, they contrast jackal language—labels, blame, judgments, demands, and “deserve” thinking—with giraffe language...