Robert Gonzales Training Legacy
Welcome to the Robert Gonzales Training Legacy. Here you can learn more about Robert and the powerful teachings he dedicated his life to. NVC Academy is proud to house and share with you the complete body of his life's work. We invite you to explore, learn, and help keep his legacy alive!
Robert's passion was in the spirituality of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process. He saw NVC both as a process that helps people connect more authentically with themselves and others, and as a spiritual practice and way of living. The worldwide NVC community mourned when Robert died in 2021. He left behind a legacy of work that emerged from a lifetime of inquiry into the intersection between spirituality and human communication.
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NVC & Spirituality
In this profound conversation, Leo Sofer and Robert Gonzales explore the relationship between spiritual awakening, Nonviolent Communication, and the human experience of feelings, needs, and love. Robert shares a deeply personal story of a childhood awakening into boundless awareness and reflects ...
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Living the Fullness of Life: 9 Session Course
24 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 11 hours 51 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2010This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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The Nature of Your Reactions
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Responding to your own reactivity is an inside job. Robert reveals how your reactions are often a secondary reaction to a triggering stimulus, and that accepting responsibility for your reactions can lead to less blame and more inner peace.
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Living the Self-in-Life: 6 Session Course
17 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment 6 hours, 16 minutes plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2016This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is ...
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The Embodied Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication: 5 Session Course
16 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 16 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2006This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is...
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Living Compassion in an Ever-Changing World: 10 Session Course
42 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 14 hours 31 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2020This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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The Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication: 6 Session Course
17 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 6 hours 36 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2020This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
Disco...
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Living Compassion in Challenging Times: 6 Session Course
14 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment 6 hours, 1 minute plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2019This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is al...
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A Worldwide Field of Compassion: 8 Session Course
22 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 8 hours 6 minutes, plus handouts
Recorded in 2020This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is a...
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Integration of Inner & Outer: Our Relationship to ALL of Life: 5 Session Course
20 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 53 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2015This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
Durin...
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Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment: 6 Session Course
18 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 6 hours 29 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
In this course you’...
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Life Force and the Spirituality of Human Needs: 6 Session Course
28 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 6 hours 27 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2012This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
This ...
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Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life: 6 Session Course
24 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 5 hours 27 minutes, plus PDF handouts
RecordedThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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Living the Heart of Life Unfolding: 8 Session Course
8 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 5 hours 28 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2014This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
If yo...
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An Introduction to Self-Compassion: 10 Session Course
20 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 10 hours 33 minutes, plus PDF handouts
RecordedIn this course recording, discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence. The heart of self-compassion is coming to an inn...
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Embodying the Consciousness of NVC: 6 Session Course
13 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 5 hours 47 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
Explore how you can...
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Embracing Impermanence: Finding Comfort in Life's Moments
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert Gonzales shares how embracing impermanence involves continually growing in his ability to accept unmet needs, to be comfortable with discomfort and unwanted experiences. Robert shares a quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about letting it rain, empha...
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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. ...
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An Introduction to the Embodied Spirituality of NVC
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert Gonzales talks about his personal search to integrate spirituality into his daily life, and how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) provided the missing link for this integration and has become the focus of his work. Explore the inner dimensions of NVC wi...
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In Robert's Words, A Journey of Gratitude
To support wider access to NVC learning, we’re offering this course free to watch until September 1, 2026.
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: Robert's passion was in the spirituality of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process. He saw NVC both as a process that helps people connect more a...
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Living the Self-in-Life: Presence and Self-Compassion
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer: My Compassion has Become My Teacher
During this very moving session, you'll dive into Robert's exercises for supporting connection to your true self as opposed to your conditioned self.
You'll:- Observe your thinking;
- Get in touch with your soul's lon... -
Letting Go and Being Free: 7 Session course
19 items
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 14-16 hours
Recorded in 2018This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is also available for pur...
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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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The Embodied Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication: Intro Teaser
Nonviolent Communication is presented as a spiritual practice that transforms both our inner relationship with ourselves and the way we connect with others. Robert Gonzales explores how feelings serve as guideposts to the beauty and fullness of our needs, inviting us to experience them as life-gi...
