Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer

In this audio recording, Sylvia Haskvitz, veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, offers an in-depth discussion of the Nonviolent Communication process of empathy. Included is clarity about what empathy is and is not, information about the presence suggested to mai...

Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer:
Sylvia Haskvitz uses a personal example to illustrate the cause of our feelings. Many of us habitually blame other people for our feelings but our own state of needs is the true cause. In this powerful audio, Sylvia teaches you how to manage your emotions...

Nonviolent Communication is presented as a spiritual practice that transforms both our inner relationship with ourselves and the way we connect with others. Robert Gonzales explores how feelings serve as guideposts to the beauty and fullness of our needs, inviting us to experience them as life-gi...

Jared Finkelstein offers an NVC process for cultivating self-acceptance by looking beneath inner judgments to discover the feelings and needs underneath them. Rather than labeling ourselves as right or wrong, good or bad, we can explore what we were trying to accomplish in a given moment and conn...

Olga Nguyen leads a guided tuning-in practice. She invites participants to connect with their breath, body sensations, feelings, and needs while gently reflecting on experiences of loss and change. Using a timeline visualization, participants explore what may have been lost during periods of col...

Jim and Jori Manske introduce a daily gratitude practice designed to build resilience by noticing what has made life more wonderful, identifying the needs that were met, and savoring the feelings that arise. Participants are invited to record three gratitudes each day and explore what they themse...

Ian Peatey and Monica Reu explore why caring for ourselves is essential to being present, grounded, and connected as parents. They discuss how self-empathy and small, everyday acts of self-care can increase our capacity to empathize with our children, respond consciously, and move beyond habitual...

In this first of three lessons, Gesine and Shantigarbha introduce the “Tree of Compassionate Connection,” a big-picture map of NVC that illustrates its purpose and learnable skills. They explore compassionate connection as the heart of NVC, with self-empathy and self-connection as the roots and e...

In this Life Hack, we explore ways of creating space for self-empathy when your emotional fuel tanks are low. We suggest practising negotiating a time out with your loved ones so that they know what's going on before things get out of hand.

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and helpless when you notice that you got triggered by someone's behavior?

Do you feel fearful when you notice that anger is rising in you, and could come out as uncontrolled intensity?

Are you longing to find a way to express feelings with authenticity so yo...

In today’s Life Hack, Gesine will share with you how to identify core beliefs that might have been helpful at one time but are now limiting you. She will also help you to see these core beliefs for what they are – artefacts from the past rather than the truth about your present.

Are you looking to deepen your work in transforming anger?

Part of the process of labeling and pigeonholing people is to create a hostile or ‘enemy’ image of them. It’s the mental equivalent of a visual caricature used for target practice. Relating to the image rather than the person makes it e...

Shantigarbha explores safety as a universal need and distinguishes the need for safety from the strategies we use to meet it. Through stories from a maximum-security prison and an exploration of self-empathy, resilience, and choice, he considers how inner connection can contribute to a sense of p...