NVC in our Inner Experience
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Starting a Practice
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Ready to up level your skills for liberation and making life more wonderful? Even if you are a hard grader, you have developed a lot of skills in your life. What if you could use the skills you already have to create more skillful connection with yourself...
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Zero Step
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori's Zero Step helps you focus your attention on your intention to connect, and then affirms your intention to live in the present. Listen in as they demonstrate the process — and learn about the benefits of using and cultivating it! Check it Ou...
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The Tao of Empathy: Breath, Body, Needs, Self Connection Exercise
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: John introduces his Self-Connection Exercise as a mindful way of coming to awareness via OFNR. Breath: immediately observable, a reminder to observe. Body: feeling the body, awareness of sensations. Needs: an experience of wholeness that expands awareness of th...
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The Three Stages of Transition
Kathleen Macferran and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Learn about the three stages of transition, and how staying connected to needs can help you remain oriented and grounded even through the most challenging transitions.
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- Resonant Empathy
- healthy relationships
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Navigating Self-Judgment: An NVC Self-Empathy Practice
Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer: Inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's teachings, Kathleen Macferran's self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations. This practice helps you connect deeply with the unmet need...
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Setting Intentions with Attention
Kristin Masters, Certified NVC Trainer: Kristin Masters explores how to approach goal-setting and self-reflection with compassion and mindfulness grounded in NVC principles. Kristin encourages you to examine how conscious choice plays a role in how we treat ourselves and others. By shifting away ...
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Accepting What Is
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains how naturalizing NVC language involves self care and begins with accepting what is true in the moment.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.
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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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Unacknowledged Fear Looks Like Aggression
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares how Marshall Rosenberg helped her see how unacknowledged fear can be misinterpreted as aggression and offers an elegant and simple strategy for changing this dynamic.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC La... -
Allow Yourself to Feel Your Emotions
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Do your emotions ever feel overwhelming or out of control? You're not alone. In this heartfelt video, Mary Mackenzie shares a simple yet transformative technique inspired by Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that helped her move past the fear of feeling too muc...
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Developing a Needs Consciousness
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful—and challenging—aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consc...
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Embrace Positivity: Transform Life through Joyful Choices and Conscious Action
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Marshall Rosenberg used to talk about every situation with the same level of joy a child might feel. This may seem impossible at first! But when you focus on all the ways something is hard, you miss out on the full experience and remove your sense of choice....
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Embracing Impermanence: Finding Comfort in Life's Moments
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert Gonzales shares how embracing impermanence involves continually growing in his ability to accept unmet needs, to be comfortable with discomfort and unwanted experiences. Robert shares a quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about letting it rain, empha...
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In Robert's Words, A Journey of Gratitude
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert's passion was in the spirituality of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process. He saw NVC both as a process that helps people connect more authentically with themselves and others, and as a spiritual practice and way of living. The worldwide NVC co...
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An Introduction to the Embodied Spirituality of NVC
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert Gonzales talks about his personal search to integrate spirituality into his daily life, and how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) provided the missing link for this integration and has become the focus of his work. Explore the inner dimensions of NVC wi...
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The Nature of Your Reactions
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Responding to your own reactivity is an inside job. Robert reveals how your reactions are often a secondary reaction to a triggering stimulus, and that accepting responsibility for your reactions can lead to less blame and more inner peace.
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Working with a Difficult Counseling Situation
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Clinical psychologist, Robert Gonzales, Ph.D., uses an open dialogue with a practitioner to explore effective, compassionate methods to handle a volatile counseling situation, particularly when the physical or emotional wellbeing of the patient is at risk. ...
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Oh No, Not Again!
Robert Maoz Krzisnik, Certified NVC Trainer: How many times do we fall into the same hole, hit the same wall, get entangled into the same patterns? There seem to be hidden forces within us that keep unconsciously leading us, again and again, into the same melody of our lives. Join Robert Krzisnik...
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Self-Connection Meditation
Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, Certified NVC Trainer: Stephanie Bachmann Mattei leads you through an 8 minute meditation designed to develop a more integrated body and feelings/needs awareness.
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- meditation
- self connection
- presence
- needs
- feelings
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The Living Energy of Needs
Susan Skye, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you experienced inauthenticity, confusion and flatness in expressing empathy with others? Do you long to create a more natural quality of energy as you practice empathy? Or are you a trainer looking for guidance to teach workshop participants a more natural...
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NVC Life Hacks 12: Love the Inner Jackal
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: The "inner jackal" is probably be better known as the "inner critic", that nagging voice of self-sabotage that undermines our confidence. It's a voice that won't go away in a hurry! So here are our four top tips for getting into positive communication w...
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NVC Life Hacks 16: Recovering Perfectionist
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you just keep going with a task, even if your body is screaming for a pause? Maybe you leave tasks incomplete because you can't finish them the way you want? Do you not even attempt some tasks because you know that you won't be able to do them perfec...
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NVC Life Hacks 21: Shame and the fear of doing it wrong
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When was the last time you were in a situation with an overwhelming feeling of shame or an unnerving fear of 'doing it wrong'? Sometimes we get sweaty palms or a dry mouth, maybe we freeze on the spot or start an unhelpful internal monologue that makes ...
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NVC Life Hacks 29: Inner Conflict
Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: A 5-step process to ease inner conflict and gain clarity on tough decisions.
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- Trainer Tip
- Shantigarbha Warren
- decision making
- decisions
- inner conflict
- inner confusion
- meditation