Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares that facilitating equitable group dynamics involves tracking attention, needs, purpose alignment, resources, and impact. Identifying patterns in attention distribution, centered needs, and maintaining alignment with the purpose enhances inc...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan clarifies the distinction between empathy and sympathy.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.

Keywords:

- imagination
- empathic presence
- presence
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Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Making Empathy Guessing Easy, via Semantics
Empathy guessing when I was new to NVC seemed magical and mysterious. How could that other person have known that about me? And seen inside me — often in ways I'd missed myself.
While empathy is both intuitive and ...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Are you looking to deepen your connection to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and build powerful empathy skills? In this short video, Mary Mackenzie shares how finding an empathy buddy transformed her life and practice. From learning to give and receive empath...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie reminds us that empathy is not about fixing—it's about presence and truly seeing the world through another's eyes. With the tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), we can show others that we deeply hear and understand not just their words, bu...

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...

Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert Gonzales shares how embracing impermanence involves continually growing in his ability to accept unmet needs, to be comfortable with discomfort and unwanted experiences. Robert shares a quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about letting it rain, empha...

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...

Giorgos Tsitsirigkos, Certified NVC Trainer: Shame is often an invisible companion that travels along with you in your journey, influencing your choices and how you experience life. Often without clear, outward signs, shame can be the unconscious power that prevents you from living life fully — o...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary continues her discussion of tracking skills, focusing on tracking requests, agreements with the group and tracking time. Mary also examines how to monitor the purpose of the session, discerning if and when to shift the agreement about the purpose for me...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary offers tips for developing effective tracking skills, including how the energy of the group is managed discerning the qualities of presence for each of the members, and monitoring group participation and striving for a balance of inclusion.

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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Borrowing teaching exercises from other people is fun and can be relatively easy. However, when we develop our own activities, our learning of the topic that we're teaching is magnified and deepened even more. Developing our own teaching exercises is a power...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer

Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful and challenging aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consc...

Jesse Wiens Chu, Certified NVC Trainer: In times of conflict, it's easy to lose touch with ourselves and our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to se...

Kristin Masters, Certified NVC Trainer: When faced with someone's grief for the world, how do you engage with them in a way that is informed? In this session, Kristin suggests exploring what they might be grieving, what they're afraid of losing, and what it is that they love.
Keywords:

- los...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Mary tackle one of the greatest challenges of facilitating an NVC group: How do you deal with hecklers and people you don't like? Mary offers insightful tips and helpful guidance.

Keywords:

- Group Facilitation Tips
- groups
- listening
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Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainer: What is empowered speech and how does it link to interdependence? How do you speak in a way that increases the chances of being heard and creates space where individuals are more inclined to listen and act? In this excerpt from the 2021 course...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: For many people thinking about creating a workshop outline is overwhelming because they focus on the whole thing at once. Breaking the process down to bite-size pieces eliminates much stress and overwhelm and brings fun and creativity to the process. here's ...

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...

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains how NVC's OFNR process is a tool to train our consciousness, rather than the "correct" way to speak.
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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Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: In this insightful snippet from Sarah Peyton, discover how connecting requests can transform conversations into meaningful exchanges. Referred to as the "steering wheel" of NVC dialogue, connecting requests shift the focus from action to connection, creating c...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori Manske share the wisdom of Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join them to learn why knowing what you want before speaking is essential for clear, meaningful interactions. This snippet from their eight session ...

Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer: Yoram Mosenzon explores the core NVC principle that others do not cause our feelings—our interpretations and unmet needs do. Through a relatable and humorous example, the trainer highlights how different people respond with a wide range of emotions to the sa...

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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