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...

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...

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....

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...

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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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. ...

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...

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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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...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Yvette Erasmus shares Terry Real's grid as a tool for exploring a spectrum of emotional responses. We all have feelings and sometimes we get dysregulated or frozen up. How do you want to express and be in connection with other people? Can you attune to the relationa...

Oren Jay Sofer shares how to stay present and grounded during difficult conversations, especially when we feel judged or criticized. He describes how awareness of bodily sensations—such as tension, trembling, or the urge to react—can help us channel our energy in a constructive way. Oren highligh...

Oren Jay Sofer explains how we can stay grounded and maintain choice during overwhelming or emotionally charged conversations. He highlights the importance of presence—feeling our feet, noticing our breath, and expanding our awareness—to counter the fight-or-flight response and self-regulate. Ore...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

Learn how to use Nonviolent Communication to navigate power dynamics by controlling the pace of interactions. Yvette Erasmus explores the differences between mental, emotional, and somatic energy, and demonstrates practical strategies for slowing down conversations, p...

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. ...

From the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Kathleen Macferran shares her three pillars of Nonviolent Communication (NVC): self-connection, community care, and resisting harm. She offers a simple, practical lens for staying grounded and engaged in challenging times. Kathleen highlights how small...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Just as setting boundaries is beneficial to relationships, NOT setting boundaries can come at a big cost. Listen to Yvette Erasmus share her experience with boundary setting, including:

- What are the costs to setting boundaries?
- What are the benefits?
- Wh...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Yvette Erasmus shares that we can translate or shift how we hear right and wrong language. We can use the cue - What is needed? I wonder what they are needing? This helps direct my attention to more relationality.

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- language of life
- needs
- consc...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

How do you protect yourself while staying as connected as possible with others? How can you effectively communicate your limits and boundaries in clear, confident, and compassionate ways that actually enhance and strengthen your relationships?

This session touches ...

Aya Caspi, Certified NVC Trainer

We each have the power to be the creator of our own inner experience, no matter what is going on externally. The moment you imply wrongness on others, you give power to them. In this excerpt, Aya Caspi shows that the more self-responsibility you take, the more fr...

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...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim Manske as he leads you through a self-connection exercise to guide you toward welcoming whatever enters into your awareness.
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- exercises/practices
- feelings
- needs
- observation
- presence
- requests
- self empathy
- connecti...

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...

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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