Self Empathy

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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...

  • Self-Empathy: A Unique Approach

  • Stay Grounded within Negative Conversations and Pressures of World Events

    This video is free to view until March 23, 2026

    From Reclaiming Hope event 2025: Jesse Wiens Chu answers 2 questions How do you deal with so much negativity that is prevalent in everyday conversation? How do you stay grounded amidst all the pressure of local and world events?

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

    From Reclaiming Hope event 2025: Kathleen Macferran answers 2 questions Describe the 3 pillars of nonviolence and how you implement. What do you do when you feel scared?

  • 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...

  • Using Right & Wrong Language

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

    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

    - language of life
    - needs
    - consc...

  • 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...

  • Setting Loving Boundaries

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer:

    How do you protect yourself while staying as connected as possible with others? How can you effectively communicate your limits and boundaries in clear, confident, and compassionate ways that actually enhance and strengthen your relationships?

    This session touches ...

  • 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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  • Make Peace With All Your Feelings

    Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

    This video is free to view until March 24, 2026

    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 ...