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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Thank You: Finding the Gift in Everything That Happens
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori Manske share strategies for employing gratitude to create more joy in life, jettisoning the fear of asking for what you want, and welcoming feedback no matter how it is delivered. Try this thought experiment exercise designed to:
- Train yo...
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Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back
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
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How to Open Your Holiday Presence
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Though the holidays are supposed to be a time of connection and celebration, emotional pain and suffering may arise, even in the midst of the festivities. Before painful situations arrive, you can build resources that will enable you to bounce back more ...
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About Guilt and How Apologizing Falls Short
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.
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Honest & Conscious Expression
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori Manske explore the considerations of expressing ourselves honestly, considerations that lead to more fully conscious and nonviolent connections.
Practices for Honest Expression1. Each evening, review your day and consider how you express...
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Facilitating Connection
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable.
This recording will demonstrate how the power of our honesty is enhanced by ending on a clear and present reque... -
Everyday Parenting Challenges
Ingrid Bauer, Certified NVC Trainer: In this audio download, Ingrid Bauer guides parents to navigate everyday parenting challenges using the NVC model, such as the behavior of a frustrated child, a messy room, transition times and a child who collapses when things don’t work out as she had hoped....
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Developing Discernment
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices.
Discernment Exercise: Using the "Four Choices" for Self-EmpathyOnce each day, write down a messag... -
Witnessing Humanity
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...
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Sharing Power
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori discuss sharing power through exploring our experience of having and not having power, how we make choices about our power and examining our relationship to power itself.
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Developing Patience
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Jim and Jori offer practical tools to help us develop patience through a process they call WAIT: Wake up, Accept, Insight, Take a step.
Practice Opportunities for Patience
A. Practicing W.A.I.T.: Choose a time at the end of each day to review your day... -
Owning Your Own Experience
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share how we are conditioned to disconnect from our own feelings and how we can unlearn this habit to experience more full and rich inner lives.
Practices for owning your own experience1. Set aside about 10 minutes per day to... -
Feelings Awareness
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: In this intriguing audio, Jim and Jori Manske create a framework for growing your feeling awareness, and offer daily practices for working with your feelings. Listen to this audio if you’d like to expand your emotional vocabulary!
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Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel
Jim & Jori Manske, Certified NVC Trainer: CNVC Certified Trainers Jim and Jori Manske show you how to tune into the "Gratitude Channel," sharing exercises and practices to hone your awareness toward gratitude.
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Self-Connection Exercise - What is present in Your Awareness?
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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Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty
Video free to watch until July 10
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... -
Unacknowledged Fear Looks Like Aggression
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Miki Kashtan shares how Marshall Rosenberg helped her see how unacknowledged fear can be misinterpreted as aggression and offers an elegant and simple strategy for changing this dynamic.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC La...
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Street Giraffe Tips
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: "Would you tell me what you heard me say?" Does the thought of asking this of someone stop you cold?
Mary Mackenzie offers a simpler method to support your need for being heard that also helps you to connect more with your non-NVC friends and family. She ... -
Self-Empathy Basics
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Watch this video and feel as if you are actually present at the workshop! Mary Mackenzie demonstrates two exercises that will help you learn fast "on the run" self-empathy techniques. These practical techniques guide you toward noticing your physical sensati...
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Principles of Nonviolent Communication: Identifying Needs
Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Let this inspiring video guide you through exercises as if you are actually present at the workshop with Mary Mackenzie! The video opens with Mary leading you through an exercise that generates a physical experience of the NVC consciousness. You will then ex...
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Navigating Self-Judgment: An NVC Self-Empathy Practice
Kathleen Macferran, Certified NVC Trainer
Inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's teachings, Kathleen Macferran's self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations. This practice helps you connect deeply with the unmet need...
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An Introduction to Self-Empathy and Focusing
Gina Cenciose, Certified NVC Trainer: In this brief video, Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and teacher, Gina Cenciose, teaches that our inner relationship is the basis for both Focusing and NVC work. In NVC, the process of Self-Empathy involves connecting to our feelings a...
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Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Using her own and participants' examples, Inbal enlightens parents on where they might be struggling with connecting to their children's needs, especially in situations where the children are responding to the parent's request. Inbal offers a new definition o...
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Observation: Awareness of Thought, Story & Core Belief to Enhance Connection
John Kinyon, Certified NVC Trainer:
In this recorded session, John Kinyon, CNVC Certified Trainer, guides you through processes to strengthen your capacity for mindful presence and awareness of your thinking, and to develop the skills to translate thoughts into observations.
You will learn to:
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