NVC and Social Change
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How do Group Purpose and Group Agreements Differ?
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the distinction between group purpose and group agreements. Group purpose is identified as the reason for gathering, such as learning to facilitate groups with a focus on inclusion and contribution. Group agreements are the policies or i...
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How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects People of Color, Fishbowl Discussion
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Roxy Manning for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect people of color.
What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in ... -
How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects White People
Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Jeff Brown moderates a fishbowl discussion discussing why it's uncomfortable for them to talk about privilege, what they're doing to be aware of / combat racism, and the role of empathy and NVC around privilege.
Keywords:
- hierarchy
- privilege
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How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects Women, Fishbowl Discussion
Dian Killian PhD and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Dian Killian and Mary Mackenzie for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect women.
What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — ... -
How Submission and Rebellion Erode Goodwill
Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer: When you say yes, check if you are saying it out of submission. Similarly, when you say no, are you saying it genuinely or out of rebellion? Marshall Rosenberg calls this a loss or erosion of goodwill which can destroy or undermine relationships. In this vide...
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How to present "harm being done" in an NVC way
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning, Phd, answers a question from a participant in one of Roxy's class: how do we use the term "harm" in NVC? Roxy offers questions to think about how to deal when someone says "harm is being done".
Keywords:
- social change
- Roxy Manning
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Increase Your Capacity and Diminish Separation Habits
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: The human species is trained and habituated towards separation. This model encourages humans to either give up on their needs or fight for their needs. In this short video, Miki shares how increasing capacity shifts habits of separation and supports holding of...
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Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill
Lorraine Aguilar, Certified NVC Trainer: Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from "What's w...
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Navigating Racial Complexity: Balancing Intention and Impact in Facilitation
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning suggests that in navigating a situation where accusations of racism and a white savior complex arise, the facilitator emphasizes the distinction between intention and impact. Acknowledging the pain of the aggrieved person, the facilitator clarifie...
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Navigating Systemic Change: The Role of NVC in Addressing Challenge
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: In this excerpt from Roxy Manning's 2019 Social Change session at the NVCfest, she explores the application of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to address both immediate conflicts and broader systemic issues. She emphasizes the importance of intervening at multi...
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Navigating Uncertainty: The Power of Present-Centered Decision-Making
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In uncertain times, when facing important life decisions, it's common to get caught up in imagining various scenarios and potential outcomes. The desire to predict and control the future often gives a false sense of security. The key is to make decisions based...
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NVC Life Hacks 13: Restorative vs Punitive Approaches
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When people get hurt or harmed, how can we restore trust, safety and connection in the community? A restorative approach which focuses on who got hurt and how can we restore it? Rather than whose fault is it and how can we punish them?
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NVC Life Hacks 30: How to Stay Sane in the Climate and Ecological Emergency
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: With more and more news coverage on the increase in climate events around the world, climate change is slowly becoming accepted as an emergency. But how do we stay sane amongst all the chaos and to go one step further how can we take action whilst being...
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Empathic Attuned Listening Practices
Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainer
Being heard is a core human need. But what if you don't like what the other person is saying: how do you hold onto your awareness of their humanity? Find out in this demonstration from Kathy Simon's course, Connect Across Differences.
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Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects White People, Fishbowl Discussion
Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jeff Brown for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege white people.
What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in full view of a... -
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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Responding to Everyday Racism Role Plays
Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon as they present two role-play scenarios showcasing diverse approaches to navigating difficult conversations. Throughout the demonstration, they underscore the significance of cultivating self-empathy and mind...
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Responding to the Call of Our Times - Living into Your Power
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Want a world that truly works for everyone? What are you going to do right now to help it efficiently move in that direction from wherever you are? Listen to Miki's coaching and guidance as she's helping participants with their challenges.
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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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Shaping the NVC Community Response to the Russia-Ukraine War
Multiple Certified NVC Trainers:
- Hear first-hand how Ukrainian trainers are supporting their communities
- Discover practical ways the worldwide NVC community may support the Ukrainian people
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The Art of Listening: Kathleen Macferran at TEDx Ranier
Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer: In this thought provoking talk, Kathleen Macferran explores the power of listening to open doors and potentially to transform people. This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Keywords:- consciousnes...
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Vaccination and COVID-19: Restoring Togetherness
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Struggling to navigate needs between the vaccinated and unvaccinated? How can we disagree and still understand each other? Listen in as a participant engages with Miki about her struggle to choreograph people's divergent needs around vaccines, and enjoy Miki's...
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What is Mine to Do?
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How DO we live our lives? What is an effective response to what is happening in the world? Listen in as Miki dialogs with a participant asking, "What is mine to do?", and honors the dissonance we feel when working to change.
This recording is from session 3...