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. ...

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...

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...

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.

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- language of life
- needs
- consc...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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- exercises/practices
- feelings
- needs
- observation
- presence
- requests
- self empathy
- connecti...

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...

Yvette Erasmus, NVC Trainer

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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 sel...