NVC and Parenting
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Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Inbal offers parents and anyone with children in their life a lucid discussion of the important role self-empathy plays in creating healthy, supportive relationships.
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Parenting Series: Understanding Requests and Demands
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Inbal speaks to a group about our habit of demanding something of our children but making it sound like a request, the components of a true request and the importance of being honest when making a demand. Through an inspirational dialogue, Inbal demonstrates ...
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Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has "No" for an Answer
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
In this video, expert parent trainer and author of Parenting From Your Heart, Inbal Kashtan responds to the age-old question: "Why do children do things to annoy parents?" Using jackal and giraffe puppets to illustrate common parent/child dialogues, Inbal ans...
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Parenting Tip: How to Engage when Young Children Comment on Differences
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares some strategies to support a child's natural curiosity when asking questions about physical differences using NVC skills.
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- curiosity
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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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Positive Relationships in Parenting
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer
Roxy Manning emphasizes positive relationships in parenting, while highlighting acceptance and understanding. She stresses the importance of being aware of one's needs, attuning to the other person's needs, fostering trust, and encouraging open communication, ...
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Strengthening Parent-Child Connections: The Power of Attachment
Ingrid Bauer, Certified NVC Trainer: Discover how fostering strong attachment and connection with your child can lead to fewer conflicts and more harmonious interactions. Ingrid Bauer offers practical guidance on using empathy, self-connection, and consistent care to create a secure and loving en...
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Sharing Power
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori discuss sharing power through exploring our experience of having and not having power, how we make choices about our power and examining our relationship to power itself.
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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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Rebels with a Cause: How Creative Disobedience Makes Kids Their Best Selves
What happens when Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is woven directly into children's television storytelling? In this engaging panel discussion, educational psychologist Laura Brown, NVC trainer Aya Caspi, producer Kim Howitt, and creator Nuria Gonzalez Blanco reveal how subtle script changes trans...
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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... -
Transforming Self-Judgment into Self-Connection
Jared Finkelstein offers an NVC process for cultivating self-acceptance by looking beneath inner judgments to discover the feelings and needs underneath them. Rather than labeling ourselves as right or wrong, good or bad, we can explore what we were trying to accomplish in a given moment and conn...
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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...