Self Empathy
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Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out: 6 Session Course
18 items
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 48 minutes, 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.
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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...
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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,...
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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.
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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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Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution: 6 Session Course
10 items
Kelly Bryson, Certified NVC Trainers
Time Investment: 6 hours 36 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2011This 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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Embracing the Body: Somatic-Self-Empathy: 6 Session Course
22 items
Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer:
Time Investment 5 hours 29 minutes, plus handouts
Recorded 2021This 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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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...
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Falling in Love with Myself Again: 6 Session Course
14 items
Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 7 hours 8 minutes, plus handouts
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.
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What Would Be Possible If I Loved Myself?: 3 Session Course
5 items
Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainers
Time Investment: 2 hours 44 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.
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Your Resonant Self: Transforming the Critical Inner Voice: 6 Session Course
13 items
Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment 7 hours, 50 minutes plus handouts
Recorded 2017This 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...