NVC Basics

NVC Basics

NVC Basics includes resources to help you understand and practice compassionate, connection-centered communication in everyday life. These resources introduce the foundational principles of Nonviolent Communication, including key concepts like observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

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NVC Basics
  • NVC Reference Guides

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  • NVC Practices and Exercises

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    The NVC Practices and Exercises collection offers practical, hands-on ways to integrate Nonviolent Communication into your everyday life. They are designed to support you in deepening understanding, building skill, and bringing N...

  • Articles on the Basics of NVC

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  • What Is NVC? A Restorative Path to Connection and Healing

    Aya Caspi, Certified NVC Trainer:

    Aya describes Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a restorative practice one that reconnects us with life, trust, and the experience of mattering. She reflects on Marshall Rosenberg's vision of NVC as a "language of life," helping us shift from disconnection to c...

  • Connection Before Solution: Building Stronger Relationships

    Alan Rafael Seid, Certified NVC trainer:

    Alan Rafael Seid explores the principle of connection before solution, emphasizing the importance of understanding each other's needs before jumping to fix a problem. He explains how rushing to solutions can lead to resentment, resistance, or ineffective ...

  • Beyond Right and Wrong

    Bridget Belgrave, Certified NVC Trainer:

    In this vintage NVC video, Bridget Belgrave, CNVC Certified Trainer from the United Kingdom, uses a Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate the key principles of Nonviolent Communication. Starting with needs at the center, Bridget builds a visual structur...

  • Without Judgment or Blame

    Bridget Belgrave, Certified NVC Trainer:

    Carl Munson interviews Bridget Belgrave on Traydio, after Carl attends an NVC and Dance Floors workshop with her. Carl shares his reaction to the term “Nonviolent Communication.” Bridget shares how she deals with people"s reaction to the term Nonviolent ...

  • Theoretical Underpinnings of NVC: 8 Session Course

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    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
    Listen to this 8-part course recording and you will learn to:

    - Understand the body of knowledge that makes up the NVC practice
    - Get answers to all the “why” questions you always wanted to ask about NVC
    - Shift NVC from mechanics to deep practice by unde...

  • Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out: 6 Session Course

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    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer:
    This 6-session course is designed to deepen your ability to connect with self and heal your past through the process of Self-empathy.Known and practiced worldwide, Mary's signature Self-empathy processes provide clear insight into the emotional triggers and...

  • Contextualizing the NVC Process

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains how NVC's OFNR process is a tool to train our consciousness, rather than the "correct" way to speak.
    This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

    Keywords:...

  • Embracing Empathy: Practice Getting Empathy into Your Bones: 4 Session Course

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    Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer:

    This course recording will help you:

    - Increase clarity of what empathy is and is not
    - Increase self-compassion through self-empathy
    - Provide hands-on practice in empathizing
    - Explore “touching the dream” in empathy
    - Find out what prevents yo...

  • Fundamentals of NVC: An Exploration of the Basics: 8 Session Course

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    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer:

    This item is also available for purchase as a download.
    https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/fundamentals-of-nonviolent-communication

    Feeling frustrated about the stress that is present in your life and in your relationships?

    Then consider the following: ...

  • Needs Consciousness

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori discuss the root of Nonviolent Communication, needs consciousness. Participate in guided processes to deepen your own needs consciousness.

    Keywords:

    - consciousness
    - presence
    - needs
    - needs not met
    - NVC consciousness...

  • The Amazing Power of Empathy: 4 Session Course

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    "Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer:

    This item is also available for purchase as a download.
    https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/the-amazing-power-of-empathy

    Have you ever had the experience of being truly heard and understood by another person? Or felt the astounding, breath-taking connect...

  • Empathy vs. Sympathy

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan clarifies the distinction between empathy and sympathy.
    This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

    Keywords:

    - imagination
    - empathic presence
    - presence
    ...

  • NVC Basics: A Foundational Course: 6 Session Course

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    "Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer:
    Are you longing for more harmonious interactions at home and work? If so, then this prerecorded telecourse is for you! One of our most popular courses, Sylvia brings more than 25 years experience as a CNVC Certified Trainer to introduce the core concepts ...

  • Why Am I Cringing? And What Can I Do About It?

    Mika Maniwa and Leonie Smith, Certified NVC Trainers

    Why do we cringe? Perhaps we've been asked to convey our feelings and our needs but we have a sense that this authentic expression is not welcome. How do we handle this? In this session, you are invited to come and explore the power dynamics o...

  • Exercise: Connecting Sensations to Emotions and Needs

    Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Puzzling about needs and feelings? Check out this excerpt from Dian Killian's course, Embracing the Body: Somatic Self Empathy, where she leads participants through an exercise that demonstrates how our physical sensations connect us to our feelings and needs....

  • Four Ways to Respond to a "Jackal" Message

    Liv Monroe, Certified NVC Trainer: In this lively video, Liv Monroe, introduces the NVC mascots of jackal and giraffe by detailing what they represent and how they are used to teach NVC dialogue to others. She then uses the jackal and giraffe puppets and ears to outline the four basic ways we can...

  • You Sound Like a Therapist!

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains how using OFNR or "Classic NVC" is for practice, not real life situations.
    This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

    Keywords:

    - empathy
    - express...

  • Four D's of Disconnection: Diagnosis, Denial, Demand, Deserve

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie shares how Marshall Rosenberg's Four D's of Disconnection live in her. Join Mary and learn how you can reframe the 4 D's to enhance connection.

    1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand...

  • The Power of Making Requests

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie explores the fourth component of Nonviolent Communication—making requests—and why it feels like "graduate level" NVC. Asking for what we truly want is vulnerable, yet it's also a profound gift of honesty and connection in our relationships. Wi...

  • Principles of Nonviolent Communication: Identifying Needs

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Let this inspiring video guide you through exercises as if you are actually present at the workshop with Mary Mackenzie! The video opens with Mary leading you through an exercise that generates a physical experience of the NVC consciousness. You will then ex...

  • Self-Empathy Basics

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Watch this video and feel as if you are actually present at the workshop! Mary Mackenzie demonstrates two exercises that will help you learn fast "on the run" self-empathy techniques. These practical techniques guide you toward noticing your physical sensati...