Vintage NVC

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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Vintage NVC
  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.
    John Kinyon has worked closely with Marshall over many years ...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Introduction to NVC Mediation

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    John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer: This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. NVC mediation can be applied to conflict in all types of situations — from organizational and ...

  • Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty

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    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Does unworthiness keep you from expressing vulnerably and honestly? Afraid of being "found out?" Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant to discern stories from needs, recognize the tension between se...

  • Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back

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    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Jim and Jori Manske in this thought experiment exercise designed to:

    - Train ourselves to become aware of the presence of conflict
    - Engage in a perspective broader than our habitual reactive patterns
    - Engage our curiosity to remain open
    - Conn...

  • About Guilt and How Apologizing Falls Short

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    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she examines the nature of guilt and how apologizing often fails to connect us to our needs.

  • Witnessing Humanity

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    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan talks about what she calls "witnessing humanity," touching on the gift of presence, empathy vs. identification and staying present in the face of intensity.&
    Listen to this multimedia resource and learn how to:

    - Trans...

  • When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety

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    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan tells us to look to our inner dialogue and the other's needs when we're feeling fear of physical violence that's been stimlated by someone's anger.

  • Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful

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    What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.

  • When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety

    Arnina Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan tells us to look to our inner dialogue and the other's needs when we're feeling fear of physical violence that's been stimlated by someone's anger.

  • Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness

    Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim leads a self-connection exercise focused on how our lives are interwoven with people we love, acquaintances, people unknown to us, and even those who have come before us or will come after us.