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  • Articles: Self Empathy

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  • Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out: 6 Session Course

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    Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer
    Time Investment: 4 hours 48 minutes, plus PDF handouts
    Recorded 2019

    This 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 6...

  • Empathy and Boundaries

    Oren Jay Sofer explores how to respond with empathy when someone says something intrusive, inappropriate, or uncomfortable. Through an NVC lens, it highlights the balance between offering generosity and understanding another person’s intention while still honoring personal boundaries, emotional s...

  • Staying Grounded within Negative Conversations and Pressures of World Events

    Video free to watch until July 31

    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,...

  • Self-Empathy: A Unique Approach

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer

    Video free to watch until September 1

    Jim Manske explores 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...

  • An Introduction to Self-Compassion: 10 Session Course

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    Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
    Time Investment: 10 hours 33 minutes, plus PDF handouts
    Recorded

    In 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...

  • Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution: 6 Session Course

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    Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainers
    Time Investment: 6 hours 36 minutes, plus PDF handouts
    Recorded 2011

    This 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.

    Suppor...

  • Embracing the Body: Somatic-Self-Empathy: 6 Session Course

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    Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer:
    Time Investment 5 hours 29 minutes, plus handouts
    Recorded 2021

    This 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 ...

  • Naming the Feeling and Need

    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...

  • Falling in Love with Myself Again: 6 Session Course

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    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
    Time Investment: 7 hours 8 minutes, plus handouts
    Recorded in 2018

    This 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...

  • What Would Be Possible If I Loved Myself?: 3 Session Course

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    Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainers
    Time Investment: 2 hours 44 minutes, plus PDF handouts

    This 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.

    - Learn to hav...

  • Your Resonant Self: Transforming the Critical Inner Voice: 6 Session Course

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    Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer
    Time Investment 7 hours, 50 minutes plus handouts
    Recorded 2017

    This 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.

    You will gai...

  • Implement 3 Pillars of Nonviolence: Self Care, Reducing Harm, Community Building

    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...

  • How Today’s World Is Affecting Our Daily Lives

    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...

  • Staying Grounded Amidst all the Pressure of Local and World Events

    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...

  • Self Regulation - Moving Outside of Triggers

    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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  • Allow Yourself to Feel Your Emotions

    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...

  • An Introduction to Self-Empathy and Focusing

    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...

  • Dialogues with Our Shame

    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...

  • From Self-Connection to Self-Expression

    Yoram Mosenzon, Certified NVC Trainer

    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 dialogue becoming more enriching and life-servin...

  • Make Peace With All Your Feelings

    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...

  • Navigating Self-Judgment: An NVC Self-Empathy Practice

    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 helps you connect deeply with the unmet need...

  • NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing

    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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  • NVC Life Hacks 12: Love the Inner Jackal

    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...