Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen as Mary Mackenzie shares an eight step path to create your own NVC learning activities, based on your own NVC learning experience. In this session, Mary uses the value of requests and observations as teaching examples.
8 Easy Steps for Developing Teaching Activities
Opening premise: Borrowing teaching exercises from other people can be fun and easy. However, when we develop our own activities, our learning of the topic that we're teaching is deepened. It can also be a powerful consciousness-building process that helps us clarify our own way of learning and to develop our unique style of teaching. Here are a few tips for starting to develop your own teaching exercises:
1. Identify the topic you want to teach. Be specific.
2. Ponder how you experience the topic in your own life.
3. If you can't remember how you experience the topic, go out into your life and watch yourself and others experiencing it.
4. Now ponder how you learned the topic. Was there a particular ""aha"" moment for you when you ""got"" it? What was happening in that moment?
5. Ponder how you could recreate that moment in a workshop; play with ideas.
6. When you have an exercise that you like, try it out on friends - NVC practitioners or not.
7. Fine tune it and then try it out on one of your NVC groups. Make notes to yourself about what you liked and didn't.
8. Keep copies of all the activities that you develop, and add your name and contact information to the bottom of any papers you hand out. Keywords:

- Group Facilitation Tips
- groups
- listening
- facilitation
- facilitator
- sharing NVC
- facilitate
- teaching NVC
- teaching NVC groups
- NVC groups
- the value of requests
- observations
- Mary Mackenzie