Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer: For many years I have been using crime and punishment (reward and consequences) to discipline because it was the only thing I knew. I knew deep in my heart it was alienating me...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer: Is there any difference between the concept or experience of "love" and that of "empathy?"

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
Is it a good idea to use NVC on persistent guilt, anger or depression without the aid of others?
— B.N., Massachusetts, USA
Trainer Answer
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Keywords:

- feelings
- arg...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
How do I respond to people who believe that consequences are necessary to change behavior?
—B.N., USA
Trainer Answer
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Keywords:

- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- ...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
Can all needs be met when illness limits the capacity of one person to meet the needs of her partner?
—R.A.F., USA
Trainer Answer
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Keywords:

- empathy
- expression
-...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
I feel overwhelmed thinking of writing to someone with cancer. What can I do?
—B.H., London, U.K.
Trainer Answer
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Keywords:

- empathy
- expression
- honesty
- prese...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
My question is about wanting to empathize more with my husband. It is difficult to communicate with him sometimes. Sometimes we connect very deeply when we have decided to use NVC. Other times it seems that we have never even t...

Gina Cenciose and Shulamit Berlevtov, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer and Certified Focusing Teacher Shulamit Berlevtov in this brief exercise called the Wheel of Awareness. This exercise will help you become aware of how to distinguish and differentiate your life experience.
T...

Bob Wentworth, Certified NVC Trainer: How we relate to life parallels how we relate to others! Learn how to have a more healthy way of relating to situations and people when your needs are not being met. Bob Wentworth offers some wisdom on moving from suffering to aliveness through not fighting w...

Eric Bowers, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Eric, as he reveals a clear path from heartbreaking intimate relationships to joyful, thriving intimate relationships.

- Learn practical tips for healing your relationship with yourself
- Understand how your early childhood relationship with your parent...

Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Are you familiar with the NVC model or been practicing for a while and still get “stuck” when you want to use it? Or, maybe it just doesn’t sound natural sometimes? Or, sound like you at all?
Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian guide and ease you int...

Dian Killian PhD and Martha Lasley, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to this newly remastered audio with seasoned Life Coach and CNVC Certified Trainers Martha Lasley and Dian Killian to explore how you can "be the change" in your life, to live fully in integrity with your values in your work, commu...

Jeff Brown, Certified NVC Trainer: Jeff shows us how to emply NVC to supercharge the possibility of transformation between two people in a mediation process.
Please note: This is a session from the 2014 NVC Academy Telethon.
Keywords:

- dialogue
- mediation
- compassion
- willingness
- Diff...

Christine King, Faye Landey, Liv Larsson, Mary Mackenzie and Rita Herzog, Certified NVC Trainer: Many of us have our cars checked / tuned-up regularly, yet we all too easily forget about checking in with ourselves – especially during the holidays. Let’s face it: the stores and malls are crowded a...

Catherine Cadden and Jesse Wiens Chu, Certified NVC Trainer: The wisdom which Nonviolent Communication is based on is as old as humanity itself. This telecourse recording draws insights from NVC’s elder siblings of Taoism, Buddhism and indigenous culture to offer new ways of approaching common NV...

Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie leads listeners through a guided meditation to experience the energy of needs that was created and written by Barbara Larson, CNVC Certified Trainer. This meditation will support you to connect to your feelings and needs in the moment, and to ...

Bridget Belgrave, Jeff Brown and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this enlightening Trainer Conversation, three veteran CNVC Certified Trainers discuss whether NVC can be learned without first learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as...

Godfrey Spencer, Certified NVC Trainer: Ask the Trainer
Dear Trainer,
Can you help me connect with my needs behind the protective use of force I use with my children? Thanks,
—P.R., USA
Trainer Answer
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Keywords:

- protective use of forc...

Alan Rafael Seid, Certified NVC Trainer: We already know that Nonviolent Communication is an excellent tool for preventing and resolving conflicts, for transforming anger, guilt, shame and depression, and for creating a high quality of connection through which people enjoy spontaneously contribut...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: We sometimes forget our intention to stay fully present and awake, it happens to all of us. Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this forgetting, how we hold it and what we can do about it.
Keywords:

- consciousness
- feelings
- hon...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you.
Whether in g...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as explores interdependence, autonomy, valuing self and others, and power-sharing in your relationships. Free yourself to honor your longing for community, belonging, and love.We are all born dependent. We have a lo...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way?Would you like to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic?No one likes demands. Some of the time we respond to perceived demands by saying “Yes” out of fear; and some of the time...

Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: The Compass – Arnina Kashtan's in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only...