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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Self-Empathy "Wrap" Process
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Mary Mackenzie takes the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs to a much deeper and more profound level by adding a "wrapping" component. By staying in the process as Mary demonstrates, you...
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Self-Empathy "Wrap" Process
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Mary Mackenzie takes the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs to a much deeper and more profound level by adding a "wrapping" component. By staying in the process as Mary demonstrates, you...
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Navigating Political Discourse
Discover how Nonviolent Communication can create connection across deeply held differences and emotionally charged topics. In this live demonstration, Aya Caspi supports a participant who feels overwhelmed by political conversations, using empathy, reflection, and compassionate dialogue to transf...
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Speaking About the War in Gaza Without Recreating It Between Us
Explore how Nonviolent Communication principles can transform highly polarized conversations into opportunities for connection and understanding. In this real-life case study, Aya Caspi demonstrates how empathy, reflection, and a focus on shared human needs can de-escalate conflict around deeply ...
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Naturalizing NVC: A brief summary of the 4-part OFNR process
The four components of Nonviolent Communication are more than a communication formula—they are practices for transforming how we experience ourselves and others. Yvette Erasmus explores observation, feelings, needs, and requests as pathways to greater curiosity, embodied awareness, connection, an...
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Valuing My Needs When I Habitually Don't
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to John answer an NVC Library member's question about what we can do when we habitually place other's needs ahead our own. Healing and change can be reached through compassionate self-connection, needs awareness, mourning and mindfulness.
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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Anger is one of the feelings that tell us we are thinking in a way in which we are disconnected from our needs; and from the Source of life within us; and in a way that is almost guaranteed to not create the connection and cooperation to meet our needs. It als...
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Reconciliation & Healing: Working with Marshall Rosenberg's Four Part Process
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg, over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence, developed a 4-part model of reconciliation and healing.
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Foundational NVC Skills: Making Requests
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer
Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC, suggests that there are two requests that are the most transformative to relationships, (1) What’s alive in both of us? and (2) What would make life more wonderful for both of us? This telecourse recording, with John Kinyon,...
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The Life-Changing Practice of an Empathy Buddy
In this practical introduction to the empathy buddy process, Yoram Mosenzon shares how regular, structured listening partnerships can deepen authenticity, self-awareness, and emotional clarity. Through simple agreements and dedicated time for speaking and listening, empathy buddies create a space...
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Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness pra...
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Consciousness, NVC, and Navigating Inner and Outer Conflicts
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to John talk about the inner and outer mediation process, the importance of the "3rd chair," and an experience of working with Pakistani elders.
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Expressing and Receiving No in NVC Consciousness
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: How we deal with “no” is a litmus test of our state of consciousness around power. It is how we see if we are truly making a request or a demand, both in how we respond to someone when we don’t receive a “yes” from them or when we don’t have a “yes” to give som...
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Five Core Principles of Living Compassion
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Listen to Robert describe the five core principles of Living Compassion and the relationship of needs to spirituality. Great material for reflection and reference!
This talk is from Robert's course, Life Force and the Spirituality of Human Needs.
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Inner Maps of Conflict
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer
In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.
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Introduction to NVC Mediation
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: This video is included in a collection with a handout. https://www.nvclibrary.com/introduction-to-nvc-mediation
This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyo...
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Introduction to NVC Mediation
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John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. NVC mediation can be applied to conflict in all types of situations — from organizational and ...
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Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty
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Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Does unworthiness keep you from expressing vulnerably and honestly? Afraid of being "found out?" Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant to discern stories from needs, recognize the tension between se...
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Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back
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Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim and Jori Manske in this thought experiment exercise designed to:
- Train ourselves to become aware of the presence of conflict
- Engage in a perspective broader than our habitual reactive patterns
- Engage our curiosity to remain open
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About Guilt and How Apologizing Falls Short
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Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she examines the nature of guilt and how apologizing often fails to connect us to our needs.
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Witnessing Humanity
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Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan talks about what she calls "witnessing humanity," touching on the gift of presence, empathy vs. identification and staying present in the face of intensity.&
Listen to this multimedia resource and learn how to:- Trans...
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When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety
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Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan tells us to look to our inner dialogue and the other's needs when we're feeling fear of physical violence that's been stimlated by someone's anger.
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Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful
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What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.
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NVC Mediation Role Plays with Aya Caspi
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Aya Caspi's Mediation Role Plays support learning and integration of conflict resolution in the lens of NVC.