Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: How can you ask for feedback without checking your authenticity at the workplace door? Jeff Brown explains that connection requests can help by attending to the quality of your relationship before the content of your request.

Keywords:

- empathy
- feeli...

Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer: When you say yes, check if you are saying it out of submission. Similarly, when you say no, are you saying it genuinely or out of rebellion? Marshall Rosenberg calls this a loss or erosion of goodwill which can destroy or undermine relationships. In this vide...

Join Dian Killian PhD and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainers for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect women.

What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in...

Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer, moderates a fishbowl discussion discussing why it's uncomfortable for them to talk about privilege, what they're doing to be aware of / combat racism, and the role of empathy and NVC around privilege.

From the 2017 Seeing the Impact of Power and Privilege: Fish...

Join Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect people of color.

What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in full view of a...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Children interpret and create meaning from everything they observe. They form a narrative about themselves and their place in the world. Roxy Manning shares how the stories of parents contribute to this narrative. Roxy shares a personal story where she, in an ...

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...

Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the distinction between group purpose and group agreements. Group purpose is identified as the reason for gathering, such as learning to facilitate groups with a focus on inclusion and contribution. Group agreements are the policies or i...

Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer: Are we really safer when we put those who harm others behind bars and forget about them? Explore turning our prisons into houses of healing and creating connections that lead to greater safety for our communities. Listen to Kathleen offer examples of emp...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares a tip on holding a group's needs while empathizing with a single person in the group.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

Keywords:

- acceptance...

Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen in as Dian shares her vision for spreading NVC through the world, and engages with participants in sharing their visions, and the areas in which they are seeking support. This session stresses the value of visioning work.

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- Worksplace
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Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever been in a meeting where the agenda is full and someone gets triggered? Did you get stuck in an empathy spiral that leads to a never ending meeting? Roxy Manning differentiates between healing empathy and functional empathy, and how you can be bot...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: So many of us have been taught to solve conflicts by what is "fair." However, Miki Kashtan states that fairness is a separating concept. In this video, she describes how when we do not have the conditions to care for all needs involved, when we live within sep...

Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer

Yoram Mosenzon discusses judgmental dialogue and its hidden aim to meet needs. This often creates distance instead of fostering connection. Yoram introduces a self-connection exercise to improve the chances of dialogue becoming more enriching and life-servin...

Kirsten Kristensen, Certified NVC Trainer: How can we create a partnership and eye-level dialog with people who we perceive to have more power? Kirsten Kristensen creates a practice of humanizing ourselves and others through empathy, practicing scary honesty, and making requests that serve both p...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares how decision-making can move beyond either/or thinking into true integration—where your needs matter and so do others'. She speaks to the vulnerability and power of co-creating choices rooted in mutual care, not control. Miki invites us to ...

Liv Monroe, Certified NVC Trainer: In this lively video, Liv Monroe, introduces the NVC mascots of jackal and giraffe by detailing what they represent and how they are used to teach NVC dialogue to others. She then uses the jackal and giraffe puppets and ears to outline the four basic ways we can...

Mary Mackenzie shares how Marshall Rosenberg's Four D's of Disconnection live in her. Learn how you can reframe the 4 D's to enhance connection.

💡Inspired by this short teaching? Join Mary Mackenzie in December for Presence Over Presents: Navigating Holiday Relationships from the Heart, a live o...

Not Attached to Strategy with Roxy ManningRoxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer

Roxy discusses the tendency to get attached to certain parenting strategies for control and emphasizes the importance of attuning to the child's needs rather than imposing fixed ideas of right or wrong. Using a persona...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan offers 3 steps we can take to access and express our deepest authentic expression.

This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

Keywords:

- NVC consciousness
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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.

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a me...

Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer explores responding to people who are committed to a punitive process rather than a restorative process. He suggests looking for what needs are met by the punitive process. Could those needs be met in a restorative process?
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Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

Many of us have been raised within a right/ wrong culture. From very young ages, we are asked, "What is wrong?" Yvette Erasmus shares a different view where emotions can be seen as expansion and contraction, where they can help us identify our needs.

I celebrate fe...