In this clip from the 2025 Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Jesse Wiens Chu explores how to navigate negativity in everyday conversations using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and empathy. He emphasizes staying grounded by first tending to one’s own reactions, rather than trying to fix others. ...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Watch this video with Jim Manske to explore the practice of Self-Empathy through a different lens. Included is a unique four-step Self-Empathy process that culminates in a focus of gratitude.

The four-step process of Self-Empathy as seen by Jim Manske ...

Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: When you experience an emotion, your body send a message to your brain that lights up the amygdala. Then what? Listen as Sarah Peyton demonstrates the NVC practice of Naming the Feeling and Need, which calms the amygdala and enables you to move into relational...

From the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Kathleen Macferran shares her three pillars of Nonviolent Communication (NVC): self-connection, community care, and resisting harm. She offers a simple, practical lens for staying grounded and engaged in challenging times. Kathleen highlights how small...

Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim Manske as he leads you through a self-connection exercise to guide you toward welcoming whatever enters into your awareness.
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In the 2025 Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Catherine Cadden, Duke Duchsherer, Jesse Wiens Chu, Kathleen Macferran, and Mary Mackenzie explore how global events impact daily life, emotional resilience, and self-connection. Through a focus on empathy, grounding, and parenting, they share hones...

Grounding, mindfulness, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practices come together in this reflective response on staying centered amid global and local stress. This clip features Jesse Wiens Chu speaking at the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event (2025), offering insight into connection, presence...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

Yvette Erasmus shares practices to help us develop a regulated nervous system. We all get hijacked and triggered at some point. When that happens we can travel a blame and shame road or we can greet ourselves with graciousness and self compassion.

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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Do your emotions ever feel overwhelming or out of control? You're not alone. In this heartfelt video, Mary Mackenzie shares a simple yet transformative technique inspired by Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that helped her move past the fear of feeling too muc...

Gina Cenciose, Certified NVC Trainer: In this brief video, Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and teacher, Gina Cenciose, teaches that our inner relationship is the basis for both Focusing and NVC work. In NVC, the process of Self-Empathy involves connecting to our feelings a...

Giorgos Tsitsirigkos, Certified NVC Trainer: Shame is often an invisible companion that travels along with you in your journey, influencing your choices and how you experience life. Often without clear, outward signs, shame can be the unconscious power that prevents you from living life fully — o...

Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer

Video free to watch until June 25, 2026

Yoram Mosenzon discusses judgmental dialogue and its hidden aim to meet needs. This often creates distance instead of fostering connection. Yoram introduces a self-connection exercise to improve the chances of dialogu...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

Yvette Erasmus suggests that making peace with our feelings reduces suffering. Sometimes we want to hurry through our feelings and just feel better. A nonviolent way of working with our feelings is to be present as our feelings change. We will notice that as needs are...

Video free to watch until June 18, 2026

Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer: Inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's teachings, Kathleen Macferran's self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations. This practice hel...

Gina Cenciose, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring video, Gina Cenciose, Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and Instructor, offers an in-depth view of the distinctions and similarities between NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing (also known as IRF and Focusing).
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Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: The "inner jackal" is probably be better known as the "inner critic", that nagging voice of self-sabotage that undermines our confidence. It's a voice that won't go away in a hurry! So here are our four top tips for getting into positive communication w...