Vintage NVC
A collection of treasured NVC resources from the early years of Nonviolent Communication. These vintage recordings capture the wisdom, teachings, and presence of longtime NVC trainers and pioneers through workshops, talks, and trainings recorded before 2016. Many original audio recordings have been lovingly restored and converted into accessible video formats with captions and searchable transcripts, preserving these gems for future generations of learners.
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Mediating Conflict with Kids
Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, Certified NVC Trainer:
In this brief, yet stimulating audio recording, Stephanie Mattei covers several "hot" parenting topics such as: boundary issues, strategy resilience, how to shift your right/wrong mentality and understanding the concept of fairness in your parent... -
Looking at "Shoulds"
Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer:
Using real-life examples from class participants, Sylvia Haskvitz demonstrates the life-changing results of clarifying the needs underlying "shoulds." Some of the situations covered in this audio are:- A grandmother shares how she was able to spend time...
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Cause of Feelings
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... -
Empathy: An In-depth Study
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...
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An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer:
Learn the fundamental principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and you will gain useful communication tools you can apply in all aspects of your life. This audio is recommended if you’d enjoy a short introduction to NVC or a quick refresher. -
Key Differentiations in Nonviolent Communication
Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer: Veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Sylvia Haskvitz, reviews the key distinctions (sometimes referred to as the key differentiations) in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Listen to this audio to deepen your NVC consciousness and skills through differentiating "gi...
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Sherlock Holmes of the Heart
Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified NVC Trainer: In this audio recording, Veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Sylvia Haskvitz uses real-life situations to help us find more natural expressions of what is harmony with our hearts.CNVC Certified trainer Sylvia Haskvitz:
"People have often said to me, 'Can you sa... -
Addictions and Intrinsic Needs
Mary Mackenzie and Susan Skye, Certified NVC Trainer: In this compelling dialogue, veteran CNVC Certified Trainers, Susan Skye and Mary Mackenzie, discuss the intrinsic needs present in addictive behaviors, and how Nonviolent Communication aligns with the 12-step programs’ process for treating ad...
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Daily Self-Empathy Practice
Want to expand your needs vocabulary, and build your capacity to identify needs, even when you’ve been triggered? Check out Mary Mackenzie's powerful teaching on Self-empathy using her interpretation of Barbara Larson's Self-empathy meditation.
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Simple Self-Empathy Tools to Help You Enjoy the Holidays
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie to learn a few of her tried-and-true simple Self-Empathy techniques, especially focused on the challenges of the holiday season.
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How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: This holiday, shift your focus from what disappoints you to the true whisperings of your heart. Compassion is an inside-outside process. It starts with acknowledging what’s important to you and then naturally flows from you. In this telecourse recording, you...
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The Tao of Empathy: Practice the Four Elements of Empathic Connection (2009)
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John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: “The Chinese philosopher, Chuang-Tzu, stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: ‘…it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is righ...
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The Tao of Empathy: Practice the Four Elements of Empathic Connection
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: “The Chinese philosopher, Chuang-Tzu, stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: ‘…it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is righ...
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Self-Empathy "Wrap" Process
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Mary Mackenzie takes the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs to a much deeper and more profound level by adding a "wrapping" component. By staying in the process as Mary demonstrates, you...
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Self-Empathy "Wrap" Process
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: In this inspiring audio, Mary Mackenzie takes the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs to a much deeper and more profound level by adding a "wrapping" component. By staying in the process as Mary demonstrates, you...
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Valuing My Needs When I Habitually Don't
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to John answer an NVC Library member's question about what we can do when we habitually place other's needs ahead our own. Healing and change can be reached through compassionate self-connection, needs awareness, mourning and mindfulness.
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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Anger is one of the feelings that tell us we are thinking in a way in which we are disconnected from our needs; and from the Source of life within us; and in a way that is almost guaranteed to not create the connection and cooperation to meet our needs. It als...
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Reconciliation & Healing: Working with Marshall Rosenberg's Four Part Process
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg, over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence, developed a 4-part model of reconciliation and healing.
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Foundational NVC Skills: Making Requests
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer
Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC, suggests that there are two requests that are the most transformative to relationships, (1) What’s alive in both of us? and (2) What would make life more wonderful for both of us? This telecourse recording, with John Kinyon,...
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Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness pra...
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Expressing and Receiving No in NVC Consciousness
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: How we deal with “no” is a litmus test of our state of consciousness around power. It is how we see if we are truly making a request or a demand, both in how we respond to someone when we don’t receive a “yes” from them or when we don’t have a “yes” to give som...
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Five Core Principles of Living Compassion
Robert Gonzales, Certified NVC Trainer
Listen to Robert describe the five core principles of Living Compassion and the relationship of needs to spirituality. Great material for reflection and reference!
This talk is from Robert's course, Life Force and the Spirituality of Human Needs.
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Inner Maps of Conflict
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer
In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.
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Introduction to NVC Mediation
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: This video is included in a collection with a handout. https://www.nvclibrary.com/introduction-to-nvc-mediation
This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyo...