NVC in Our Inner Experience
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Why Am I Cringing? And What Can I Do About It?
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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...
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The Energy of Aliveness: Eros & NVC
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Mitch Miyagawa, Certified NVC Trainer
This workshop is a playful and fun exploration of eros, the energy of aliveness, in relationships. You'll explore your ""eroself"" through imaginal exercises and movement, solo and in empathic pairs. Come discover the link between eros and NVC by examining f...
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2 itemsSpeak Up, Or Let Go?
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Ranjitha Jeurkar, Certified NVC Trainer
Have you ever been told to choose your "battles" wisely? If yes, have you wondered how to make that choice? How do you know when it's better to speak up, or just let it go? In this session, we will take some time to explore these questions using the self-e...
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NVC Zen: The Paradox of Responsibility
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Aya Caspi, Certified NVC Trainer
How do we not take responsibility for other’s experiences while taking full responsibility for the impact of our choices? Come learn how to support the move from emotional “slavery” to emotional liberation, while still maintaining interdependence. You will come a...
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Healing the Dance of Shame in Relationship
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Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer
How do the nervous systems of friends and partners respond to contempt, shame, or disappointment? Profound neurobiological changes happen in such moments and, despite their impact, NVC can help us become shame-resilient. Come experience some life-changing brai...
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Do the Right Thing! Move Beyond "Right and Wrong" and into CHOICE
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Kathleen Macferran and Jared Finkelstein, Certified NVC Trainers
This session explores the practice of choosing to untangle right/wrong thinking so you can hold all views with compassion. From this place, we find strategies to address the complexities of needs within differences. Learn to create...
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Self-Connection Exercise - What is present in Your Awareness?
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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Feelings Awareness
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: In this intriguing audio, Jim and Jori Manske create a framework for growing your feeling awareness, and offer daily practices for working with your feelings. Listen to this audio if you’d like to expand your emotional vocabulary!
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Owning Your Own Experience
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share how we are conditioned to disconnect from our own feelings and how we can unlearn this habit to experience more full and rich inner lives.
Practices for owning your own experience1. Set aside about 10 minutes per day to... -
Developing Patience
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori offer practical tools to help us develop patience through a process they call WAIT: Wake up, Accept, Insight, Take a step.
Practice Opportunities for Patience
A. Practicing W.A.I.T.: Choose a time at the end of each day to review your day... -
Witnessing Humanity
Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Video free to watch until July 31
Arnina talks about what she calls "witnessing humanity," touching on the gift of presence, empathy vs. identification and staying present in the face of intensity.Learn how to:
- Transform judgments of others
- Stay pre... -
Developing Discernment
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices.
Discernment Exercise: Using the "Four Choices" for Self-EmpathyOnce each day, write down a messag... -
How to Open Your Holiday Presence
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Though the holidays are supposed to be a time of connection and celebration, emotional pain and suffering may arise, even in the midst of the festivities. Before painful situations arrive, you can build resources that will enable you to bounce back more ...
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Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim and Jori Manske in this thought experiment exercise designed to:
- Train ourselves to become aware of the presence of conflict
- Engage in a perspective broader than our habitual reactive patterns
- Engage our curiosity to remain open
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How to Understand Your Partner When Being Impacted by What They Say
In this conversation, a couple explores the challenges that arise when one partner is seeking empathy while expressing difficult experiences related to gender, socialization, and classroom dynamics. The dialogue highlights how easily conversations can shift from one partner’s need for understandi...
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2 itemsWitnessing Humanity
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Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan talks about what she calls "witnessing humanity," touching on the gift of presence, empathy vs. identification and staying present in the face of intensity.&
Listen to this multimedia resource and learn how to:- Trans...
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Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back
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Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim and Jori Manske in this thought experiment exercise designed to:
- Train ourselves to become aware of the presence of conflict
- Engage in a perspective broader than our habitual reactive patterns
- Engage our curiosity to remain open
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Inner Maps of Conflict
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer
Video free to watch until July 31
In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.
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Five Core Principles of Living Compassion
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Listen to Robert describe the five core principles of Living Compassion and the relationship of needs to spirituality. Great material for reflection and reference!
This talk is from Robert's course, Life Force and the Spirituality of Human Needs.
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Consciousness, NVC, and Navigating Inner and Outer Conflicts
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to John talk about the inner and outer mediation process, the importance of the "3rd chair," and an experience of working with Pakistani elders.
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Reconciliation & Healing: Working with Marshall Rosenberg's Four Part Process
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg, over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence, developed a 4-part model of reconciliation and healing.
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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Anger is one of the feelings that tell us we are thinking in a way in which we are disconnected from our needs; and from the Source of life within us; and in a way that is almost guaranteed to not create the connection and cooperation to meet our needs. It als...
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Valuing My Needs When I Habitually Don't
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to John answer an NVC Library member's question about what we can do when we habitually place other's needs ahead our own. Healing and change can be reached through compassionate self-connection, needs awareness, mourning and mindfulness.
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Naturalizing NVC: A brief summary of the 4-part OFNR process
The four components of Nonviolent Communication are more than a communication formula—they are practices for transforming how we experience ourselves and others. Yvette Erasmus explores observation, feelings, needs, and requests as pathways to greater curiosity, embodied awareness, connection, an...
