Gregg Kendrick and Marie Miyashiro, Certified NVC Trainer: Gregg Kendrick and Marie Miyashiro share the importance of nonviolent communication and needs awareness at multiple levels of organizational structure —individual, interpersonal, and organizational. Supportive systems are crucial in maint...

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...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: In this excerpt from Roxy Manning's 2019 Social Change session at the NVCfest, she explores the application of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to address both immediate conflicts and broader systemic issues. She emphasizes the importance of intervening at multi...

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...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning suggests that in navigating a situation where accusations of racism and a white savior complex arise, the facilitator emphasizes the distinction between intention and impact. Acknowledging the pain of the aggrieved person, the facilitator clarifie...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you find yourself in difficult conversations, wishing to be understood? Do you receive comments that you do not know how to navigate effectively?

Does it sometimes seem that the other person wants to argue? Do you long to connect in ways that can me...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: In parenting, Roxy Manning notes the tendency for self-judgment and external judgment. Roxy suggests that being a single parent or a working parent influences your ability to implement parenting strategies. The importance of assessing the feasibility of strate...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary illustrates how we can get diverted from our group's purpose by the needs of a single indvidual in the group, especially requests for prolonged empathy. Listen to Mary reframe these scenarios and offer three helpful tips for handling these situations.
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Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: In this session Jim and Jori Manske facilitate the exploration of the topic of Mourning using the three modes of NVC: self-empathy, honesty and empathic presence. Using an array of tools and exercises such as metaphors, somatic experience, connecting with...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: As parents, aligning our values with our actual behavior can be challenging. In this video, Roxy discusses the importance of modeling behavior for children, both in how they handle challenges and in their overall approach to life. Her message encourages using ...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Mary Mackenzie as she offers a simple approach incorporating NVC into everyday conversations. Her observation is that sometimes speaking NVC empath guesses of feelings and needs can feel un-natural or robotic. A possible solution is to slightly shift th...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

Yvette Erasmus suggests that making peace with our feelings reduces suffering. Sometimes we want to hurry through our feelings and just feel better. A nonviolent way of working with our feelings is to be present as our feelings change. We will notice that as needs are...

Wes Taylor, Certified NVC Trainer: In this vintage 1999 video, Wes Taylor leads a group of young people in a lively discussion on working with anger. He clarifies that anger is a valid feeling that is a product of "jackal" thinking and points out that anger is never the primary emotion; there is ...

Oren Jay Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: What do we do when someone speaks to us in a way that doesn't feel respectful? In this video, Oren Jay Sofer explores how NVC invites us to listen for the feelings and needs behind harsh or judgmental words — not because we "should," but because it gives us ...

Lorraine Aguilar, Certified NVC Trainer: Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from "What's w...

Elia Paz, Certified NVC Trainer

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Join Elia Paz as she shares a story that beautifully illustrates how boundaries are akin to consciously directing our precious energy. She artfully expands upon this concept by highlighting that life-serving boundaries embody ...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: The human species is trained and habituated towards separation. This model encourages humans to either give up on their needs or fight for their needs. In this short video, Miki shares how increasing capacity shifts habits of separation and supports holding of...

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...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan discusses how focusing on connection and care can guide us in expressing honestly and offering empathy.
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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How can Nonviolent Communication (NVC) create more constructive conversations in the workplace? Lorraine Aguilar explores the key difference between calling someone in and calling them out, emphasizing the power of care over annoyance. Discover three essential NVC strategies for professional envi...

Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer

Yoram suggests that when we make positive language requests, we tell people what we want. We give them an image of what would make life more wonderful. What we usually do is tell people what we do not want. This tends to create resistance.

For example: Ho...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning, Phd, answers a question from a participant in one of Roxy's class: how do we use the term "harm" in NVC? Roxy offers questions to think about how to deal when someone says "harm is being done".

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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...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen as Mary Mackenzie shares an eight step path to create your own NVC learning activities, based on your own NVC learning experience. In this session, Mary uses the value of requests and observations as teaching examples.
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