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 reactions, rather than trying to fix others. ...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Many of us have been raised within a right/ wrong culture. From very young ages, we are asked, "What is wrong?" Yvette Erasmus shares a different view where emotions can be seen as expansion and contraction, where they can help us identify our needs.

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Ike Lasater and John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: When you have intrusive thoughts about yourself and feel "crummy," Ike recommends using the Chooser / Educator map as a guide to lead you out of the primitive part of your brain and back to your prefrontal cortex. Both the Chooser and the Educat...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

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Yvette Erasmus shares practices to help us develop a regulated nervous system. We all get hijacked and triggered at some point. When that happens we can travel a blame and shame road or we can greet ourselves with graciousness and sel...

Gina Cenciose, Certified NVC Trainer: In this brief video, Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and teacher, Gina Cenciose, teaches that our inner relationship is the basis for both Focusing and NVC work. In NVC, the process of Self-Empathy involves connecting to our feelings a...