In the 2025 Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Catherine Cadden, Duke Duchsherer, Jesse Wiens Chu, Kathleen Macferran, and Mary Mackenzie explore how global events impact daily life, emotional resilience, and self-connection. Through a focus on empathy, grounding, and parenting, they share hones...

This NVC mediation role play with Aya Caspi demonstrates how Nonviolent Communication can transform conflict through empathy, reflection, and skillful facilitation. Focusing on connection, conflict resolution, and dissolving enemy images, Aya Caspi guides participants through a structured dialogu...

In this clip from the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Duke Duchscherer explores how to live Nonviolent Communication (NVC) even when others around you are unfamiliar with it. He shares how creating simple, shared systems—especially for conflict—can help families, workplaces, and communities s...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

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 self compassion.

It sounds like:
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Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainer: In this compelling, prerecorded telecourse, discover how freedom and autonomy are the basis for all healthy relationships. Kelly provides tools to help anyone improve or create outstanding relationships with others. The critical first step is creating a giving...

Mukti Jarvis, Certified NVC Trainer: Mukti Jarvis shares seven types of conversations vital to healthy, flourishing intimate relationships. These conversations include:

- Our Bright Future
- Drama Dialogue
- Healing Our Raw Spots
- Making Amends
- Responsiveness
- Touch and Sex
- ...

Lore Baur, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever seen something happen that made you feel uncomfortable and you didn't know what to do? That's the "bystander effect:" a well-researched and commonly experienced phenomenon. Training can help you overcome it, enabling you to discern what to do and ho...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How do you repair a relationship when you've already said things you regret, and want to reconnect with explaining or defending yourself? Listen as Miki Kashtan offers two valuable tips.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC La...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

The purpose of setting boundaries is to prevent harm to yourself and others. Boundaries are about knowing yourself and teaching others about you. You must ask yourself:

What do you need to prune the weeds in your relationships?
What will you welcome into your space?
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Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer: It seems death cafes are everywhere these days. But how changed are we by the conversations we're now having? Not everyone is open to talking about death. It may well be that someone in your life is nearing the end of their days and their refusal to talk abou...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Plowing ahead without collaboration can result in taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Would you enjoy more ease and co-operation with others? More partnership? More warmth?

Learning more about collaborating effectively can help you:

- Empower y...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie explains that empathizing with our closest loved ones can be difficult because they matter so deeply to us, past experiences might create emotional barriers, and we might fear losing ourselves in the process.
To grow our empathy skills, we mu...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Yvette Erasmus shares her interpretation of the difference between "faux" feelings and feelings. "Faux" feelings imply that someone is doing something to you and generally connote wrongness or blame.

Keywords:
- OFNR
- feelings
- faux feelings
- Yvette Era...

Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Building relationships happens through dialogue and understanding the deeper meaning behind the words spoken. It's about active listening that focuses on feelings and needs so you may truly comprehend the speaker's message. In this video, Duke introduces t...

Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer: Yoram Mosenzon shares how expressing specific and authentic appreciation can deepen connection in intimate relationships. He emphasizes the importance of making clear observations without judgment and connecting with the feelings and needs that arise from me...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In uncertain times, when facing important life decisions, it's common to get caught up in imagining various scenarios and potential outcomes. The desire to predict and control the future often gives a false sense of security. The key is to make decisions based...

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: This is the first in a series of tips on applying NVC to daily life. In this episode, Shantigarbha offers five tips for improving communication in relationships.

Keywords:

- partnership
- tips
- relationships
- presence
- Shantigarbha Warren

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer

Falling in love is quite an experience, especially when it comes to that moment of saying 'I love you'. So what happens once you're in a relationship but still need to express the way you feel? Sometimes people feel like just saying 'I love you' is too ...

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this, the second in a series on applying NVC to daily life, Shantigarbha offers five tips for recognizing where communication is likely to go awry.

Keywords:

- presence
- relationships
- tips
- partnership
- listening
- Shantigarbha ...

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In the third in a series on applying NVC to daily life, Shantigarbha follows directly on from Episode 2, showing us that listening isn't a passive activity, and offers five tips for how to improve our listening skills.

Keywords:

- listening
- p...

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Anger is an emotion we'd often like to disown! Shantigarbha offers us five tips for "finding the life" in our anger, and ends with a short, guided reflection.

Keywords:

- presence
- relationships
- tips
- partnership
- anger
- Shantigar...

Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Conflict occurs when disagreements undermine the sense of trust and safety in family, workplace, or community. Shantigarbha shares nine tips for addressing, and even transforming conflict.

Keywords:

- partnership
- tips
- relationships
- pr...

Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: In this snippet from Duke Duchscherer's course, Restorative Dialogues: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience, he shares a structured approach for conflict resolution or communication facilitation. It involves a facilitator guiding a conversa...