Recently Added
Explore the newest videos added to the NVC Library—featuring fresh teachings, insights, and inspiring NVC demonstrations. This section highlights recently added content so you can easily discover what’s new and continue growing in your NVC practice.
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Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki works with a course participant to transform begrudging attendance at a mandatory meeting into the possibility for collaboration, more connection where little is expected and focus on clarity of purpose for meeting in the first place.
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The Radical Implications of Staying Within Capacity
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Overriding our individual or collective capacities can sustain oppressive systems. Honoring limits better aligns with life and is more likely to dismantle patriarchal culture. Accepting, respecting and staying within capacity instead of constantly pushing bey... -
Sharing NVC With Others
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In this prerecorded telecourse, Miki Kashtan addresses some of the most common questions that arise as we attempt to successfully teach and share Nonviolent Communication with others. Based on her success with the BayNVC organization and her experience buildin...
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Responding to the Call of Our Times - Mentoring, Teaching and Coaching
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen as Miki works with participants. Topics: how small requests serve interdependence; NVC process vs purpose; how to respond when empathy is used to create distance; coping with verbal aggression, and more!
- life purpose
- meaning
- culture
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Responding to the Call of Our Times - Step Into Your Vision
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Enjoy listening to Miki make the distinction between leadership as a position and leadership as an orientation to life. The theme: when is it time to actively step into your vision?! Check it Out.
Keywords:- expression
- strategies
- dialogue
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Not Trusting the “Yes”
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In this 2-part audio series, Miki demonstrates how to stay in a dialogue when you don’t trust someone’s “yes,” how to equalize power between people and how to allow space for others to say “no” to our requests. In this 2-part audio series, Miki demonstrates h...
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Communicating with Family Across Political Divides
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan talks with radio show host Hollis Polk about strategies for communicating with family members whose political views oppose our own.
Keywords:- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- requests
- strategies
- anger
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It's Hard to Communicate When My Partner Drinks
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan hosted Living Room Radio Show on KPFA Radio 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, USA. Listen as she works with a a woman whose relationship is challenged by what happens when her lover drinks. In this segment, Miki encourages the caller to get support ...
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I Want to Repair a Relationship, But I am Scared
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan hosts Living Room Radio Show on KPFA Radio 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, USA. Listen as she works with a mother who is experiencing a strained relationship with her recently married daughter after a verbal “attack” from the daughter. Miki guides...
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Open-Hearted Disagreement
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki demonstrates how to work with judgmental thinking, offering a two-step process to shift from right/wrong thinking about our disagreements to a more open-hearted state of being.
Keywords:- consciousness
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Groups Tip Series: How Can I Support More Collaboration?
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: It seems to me that people see ideas which are different from theirs as threatening. Instead of listening, the group polarizes around the different ideas and a lot of judgments develop, conflicts develop and people feel hurt. Forward progress becomes a battle ...
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My Teen Daughter Dislikes NVC
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In this brief audio segment, Miki works with a woman whose teenage daughter rejects her use of NVC, guiding her in a process of self-awareness and acceptance. Miki helps her see that it's not only about the words we use, but more about being real and staying t...
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Judging and Feeling Judged
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: In this short but potent audio, expert CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan demonstrates the eye-opening experience of translating our judgments into needs. She uses this process in working with a mother who is stuck in a loop of feeling judged by family member...
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The Heart of the Matter: Connecting More Deeply to Your Feelings and Needs
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to increase your capacity to identify and connect with feelings and needs? Would you like to enhance your ability to translate judgments? Join Miki for this deep dive into feelings and needs.
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How to Enjoy Your Family Dinner
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: If you dread family gatherings because of family tensions, you can find ways to excavate through piles of hardened judgments and hopelessness, build on your inner strength, and engage with family conflicts with open-hearted curiosity, greater presence, and con...
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Wanting Fully without Attachment
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to befriend your needs and live without shame about them? Would you like to increase your inner freedom by letting go of attachment to outcome? Many of us equate letting go of attachment with giving up on wanting. This telecourse recording explores...
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Dialogue with Extended Family
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Many families are far more complex and varied than they used to be. In this recording, Miki works with participants, focusing on specific challenges they’re facing with family members. Listen In.
Keywords:- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- requests
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Groups Tip Series: Working with Frequent Interruptions
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How can I deal with someone who is constantly interrupting and derailing our process?
Keywords:- conflict resolution
- groups
- collaboration
- Group Facilitation Tips
- interrupting
- facilitation
- facilitator
- sharing NVC
- teaching NVC
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Fear of Negative Consequences
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible...
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Courageous Living Towards the World We Want
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki leverages her extensive work with nonviolent social change activism, including ongoing work with the U.S. Department of Peace Campaign, to explore the use of NVC as a tool for effective social transformation. Individuals, activists, advocates and communit...
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Choice in Every Moment
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: This 31-minute audio with Miki Kashtan is packed full of power as she uncovers the dynamics of choice that are present 100% of the time, in every situation, regardless of the circumstances. She encourages us to reach for a consciousness that acknowledges our a...
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The Ogre and the Water of Life
Leo Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to three interwoven tales of love, vulnerability, courage and healing by CNVC Certified Trainer and Storyteller Leo Sofer.
The first tale involves an old man who rushes deliriously to the palace with a discovery that he is convinced will change the world. ... -
A Strong Man: A Children’s Story
Leo Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to this captivating story by Leo Sofer. A strong blacksmith comes to the aid of a little girl when she needs protecting. But can he protect her from the harsh words she speaks to herself inside her head?
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How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends
How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends