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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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  • Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC

    Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: Sarah Peyton explains how your brain's left hemisphere excels at pattern making. NVC can help integrate both hemispheres, enabling you to use the left side's love of patterns for abstract thinking.

    Keywords:

    - hierarchy
    - neurobiology
    - neuroscience...

  • You Sound Like a Therapist!

    Video free to watch until October 21
    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains how using OFNR or "Classic NVC" is for practice, not real life situations.
    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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  • Working with a Difficult Counseling Situation

    Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Clinical psychologist, Robert Gonzales, Ph.D., uses an open dialogue with a practitioner to explore effective, compassionate methods to handle a volatile counseling situation, particularly when the physical or emotional wellbeing of the patient is at risk. ...

  • Why NVC Matters To Me

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer

    What drew you to Nonviolent Communication? In this touching reflection, Mary Mackenzie shares the moment that first lit her up with hope. In her very first class, she was asked to reflect on what she truly wanted in life—and realized there was a growing gap ...

  • Why Do I love Restorative Circles?

    Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares that Restorative Circles have the ability to transform relationships. Groups may start with feelings of worry, anxiety, fear, anger, and even hatred. The dialogue process supports a shift to more ease, connection, and trust.

    Keyw...

  • When to Speak, When to Listen: An NVC Approach

    Oren Jay Sofer, Certified NVC Trainer: Oren J. Sofer offers an NVC approach to navigating tough moments—balancing honest self-expression with deep listening. Discover how centering yourself, naming your intentions, and hearing the other person first can create the understanding needed for true co...

  • What is the Role of the Facilitator in a Restorative Circle?

    Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer
    Duke shares what the role of the facilitator is in a restorative circle.
    - Creating space for dialogue/inviting participation
    - Staying in the present moment
    - Stays in service of agreements
    - Collaborate as a team
    - Willingly restricting involvem...

  • What is the Cost of NOT Setting Boundaries

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

    Just as setting boundaries is beneficial to relationships, NOT setting boundaries can come at a big cost. Listen to Yvette Erasmus share her experience with boundary setting, including:

    - What are the costs to setting boundaries?
    - What are the benefits?
    - Wh...

  • What is Mine to Do?

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How DO we live our lives? What is an effective response to what is happening in the world? Listen in as Miki dialogs with a participant asking, "What is mine to do?", and honors the dissonance we feel when working to change.

    This recording is from session 3...

  • What is Empathy?

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Mary Mackenzie explores empathy as a form of presence—truly understanding someone else's world without imposing our own perspective. Using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), she shows a simple yet profound process for expressing that we have genuinely heard ano...

  • What is Community and Community Well-Being?

    Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares that community well-being is created by the relationships that exist within the community. He discerns two vital components: bonding connections within similar groups and bridging connections between different groups. This interplay...

  • Vaccination and COVID-19: Restoring Togetherness

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Struggling to navigate needs between the vaccinated and unvaccinated? How can we disagree and still understand each other? Listen in as a participant engages with Miki about her struggle to choreograph people's divergent needs around vaccines, and enjoy Miki's...

  • Using Right & Wrong Language

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer.

    Video free to watch until October 28

    Yvette Erasmus shares that we can translate or shift how we hear right and wrong language. We can use the cue - What is needed? I wonder what they are needing? This helps direct my attention to more relationality.

    Keywords

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  • Using Integral Concepts to Improve Discernment

    Wes Taylor, Certified NVC Trainer: Wes Taylor uses Ken Wilber's work to explain the developmental evolution of consciousness. He then connects Wilber's stage development concepts to the development of Nonviolent Communication.

    Keywords:

    - Integral stages
    - consciousness
    - inspiration
    ...

  • Using Images in Your Empathy Guessing

    Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Dian Killian and discover the power of imagery and metaphor in deepening your empathy practice. This segment from her 6 session course explores how visualizing sensations, emotions, and needs through metaphorical language can enhance the connection during...

  • Unappreciated is NOT a feeling

    Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer

    Unappreciated, Judged, Disrespected, Offended, Manipulated ... people use these words to describe feelings but these are all words that describe interpretations instead. They're also words that get people's backs up. Talk about unproductive! The solution? Dev...

  • Unacknowledged Fear Looks Like Aggression

    Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer

    Miki Kashtan shares how Marshall Rosenberg helped her see how unacknowledged fear can be misinterpreted as aggression and offers an elegant and simple strategy for changing this dynamic.

    This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC La...

  • Two Self-Empathy Exercises

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out. This session is from the NVC Academy's 2017 Telethon. Listen in as Mary offers two experiential self-empathy exercises: I Love It When, and What Do I Want / Why Do I Want It. Deepen your ability to connect with self...

  • Two Essential Tips for Facilitating Vibrant NVC Groups

    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Mary Mackenzie as she focuses on her opening premise for group participation, which lays the foundation for developing vibrant groups and then defines the facilitator's role, which is often not known or incorrectly defined.

  • Transforming Needs Into Compassionate Connection

    Iris Bawidamann, Certified NVC Trainer: Iris Bawidamann explains how needs, like appreciation, can easily turn into demands or self-blame when approached from a place of lack or expectation. Instead of blaming others for not meeting our needs or harshly demanding fulfillment from ourselves, livin...

  • Tools to Support Relational Attunement

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

    Yvette Erasmus shares Terry Real's grid as a tool for exploring a spectrum of emotional responses. We all have feelings and sometimes we get dysregulated or frozen up. How do you want to express and be in connection with other people? Can you attune to the relationa...

  • Tips for Bringing NVC to Work

    Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen in as Dian shares her tips and sense of urgency around bringing NVC skills to work: 1) How to use your imagination (visualization!) to help you connect with somatic responses and needs; and 2) Five built-in advantages to sharing NVC in the work place.
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  • The True Role of a Mediator: Beyond Conflict Resolution

    Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer: Yoram Mosenzon shares that the role of a mediator is often misconceived as solving conflicts, which can create stress and exacerbate the conflict. Instead, the true essence of mediation is about remaining untriggered, understanding the pain of the conflictin...

  • The Three Stages of Transition

    Kathleen Macferran and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Learn about the three stages of transition, and how staying connected to needs can help you remain oriented and grounded even through the most challenging transitions.

    Keywords:

    - Resonant Empathy
    - healthy relationships
    - A...