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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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  • Building Understanding: NVC for Mediating Polarized Groups

    Liv Larsson, Certified NVC Trainer: Using NVC to foster understanding and connection across divided groups.
    Keywords:

    - presence
    - blame
    - judgment
    - personal growth
    - relationships
    - politics
    - Liv Larsson

  • What Are Enemy Images?

    Liv Larsson, Certified NVC Trainer: In this compelling interview with Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer from Sweden, the NVC concept of enemy images — how they develop, what they represent and how they affect our relationships with others and self — is explored. At the end of the audio, Liv tel...

  • Effectiveness of the NVC Process in Coping with Violence and Pain

    Liv Larsson, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer

    Dear Trainer,
    An NVC Academy member from Bosnia asks: Is the NVC process truly effective in places where so much violence has occurred and people's pain is very deep?
    —M.T., Bosnia
    Trainer Answer
    Dear M.T.,
    Listen to the Audio above for the co...

  • Two-Way Street Empathy and Honesty

    Liv Larsson, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
    Dear Trainer,
    I recently attended an NVC workshop where the focus was entirely upon empathy, and expressing honestly was not covered. Aren't both empathy and honesty both vital components of NVC?
    —NVC Academy member
    Trainer Answer
    Dear NVC Acade...

  • Resolving Conflict in Congregations

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM, Certified NVC Trainer: LoraKim explores what gets in the way of seeing the inherent worth and dignity of others when there is conflict in congregations. The language of needs and feelings bonds us together and can lead us into creating communities where our hearts share a co...

  • The Needs of the Many

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM, Certified NVC Trainer: LoraKim Joyner addresses the sense of overwhelm, sometimes accompanied by ideology, that can impede holding the needs of the many. Practicing self-empathy is a pathway to living in the tension of mutually holding my needs and the needs of others.
    Keywor...

  • Transforming Drama in Congregations

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM, Certified NVC Trainer: Developing interpersonal relationship skills in congregations is integral to working with the conflicts that arise. NVC helps us turn toward conflict and connect us to life so we can sit with unmet needs, grow the trust to accept our humanity and shift ...

  • Feast for the Soul: Awakening

    Kathy Ziola, Certified NVC Trainer: Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable. From the depths of internal winter to the melting open in the warm sunshine of spring to rest in the ocean of Spirit,...

  • Truth as an Act of Love

    Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainer: Speaking the truth creates congruence, which creates trust, facilitating understanding and cooperation. Without truth there is no growth in our relationships and community. Without truth, we create growing resentment which subtlely and inevitably undermines re...

  • Stop Suffering

    Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Kelly Bryson, veteran CNVC Certified Trainer and author of many NVC books and articles, explores the importance of setting a clear intention and then clarifies the difference between pain and suffering. Kelly tells us that pain is diff...

  • Love Without Conditions, Control or Coercion

    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...

  • Growing Intimacy and Expanding Love

    Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you crave greater intimacy with your partner? Wish you had more ease for asking for what you want?
    You’re not alone!
    Nearly 50% of adults long for more intimacy in their relationships (according to attachment science).
    Take a step forward and learn practica...

  • Transparency: What We Are Afraid to Say

    Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainer: Kelly Bryson, CNVC Certified Trainer who is especially known for his skill in teaching people how to live authentically, focuses this audio on honesty: how to express what you're most afraid to say, when honesty is the best choice to support connection and how...

  • Apologizing in NVC Language

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: In this brief audio, Jim Manske uses a live situation to demonstrate how to use the NVC process in an apology. Jim starts by identifying the four steps to self-connection before expressing your apology:

    - Identify what you are apologizing for
    - Clarify...

  • Recovering from Reactivity

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jim and Jori Manske for this session that will help you minimize your reactivity and live in greater choice.
    This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference.

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  • Three Necessities for Integrating NVC

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Inspired by a talk given by Marshall Rosenberg, Jim offers an interactive exploration of powerful strategies for making NVC an integral part of your everyday life. Topics include:

    - Remembering the Purpose of NVC
    - The Shared Power of Gathering Support...

  • The Zero Step

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jori and Jim Manske offer a process they call "The Zero Step," encompassing the characteristics of warmth toward self and other, care for the vitality of both yourself and other(s), wonder/interest, vulnerability(scary honesty) and empathy, which leads di...

  • Mourning and Celebration

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jori and Jim Manske to explore, learn and practice an NVC approach to mourning and celebration.
    This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference.
    Keywords:

    - empathy
    - exercises/practices
    - feelings
    - honesty
    ...

  • Receiving the Word "No"

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jori and Jim Manske to explore, learn and practice the art of receiving the word "no," re-framing it from fear into fun.
    This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference.
    Keywords:

    - empathy
    - exercises/practice...

  • From Flipping Your Lid to Flipping the Script

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim Manske for practice exercises that will help you navigate away from reactivity toward a more compassionate way of being in the world, and learn to express vulnerable honesty(scary honesty} .
    This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leade...

  • The Transforming Power of Authenticity

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jori and Jim Manske offer writing practices to help us become more firmly grounded in the authorship of our lives. That grounding helps us share ourselves with others more authentically and vulnerably(scary honesty).
    This recording is from the Taste of Co...

  • Sowing the Quilt of Connection

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim Manske offers practices to stay in dialogue without defensiveness, especially when it's difficult. Listen to Jim discuss the refining of our commitment to connection and how to respond to others' defensiveness too.
    This recording is from the Taste of ...

  • Winning the Blame Game

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori Manske offer insight into blame, how it arises and how do we handle being blamed and our own blame of others. This session includes exercises that will help you transform blame into connection and resolution.
    This recording is from the Taste ...

  • Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

    Ike Lasater and John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: When you have intrusive thoughts about yourself and feel "crummy," Ike recommends using the Chooser / Educator map as a guide to lead you out of the primitive part of your brain and back to your prefrontal cortex. Both the Chooser and the Educat...