Downloadable Courses - Nonviolent Communication

Embracing the Body: A Six Week Program on Somatic-Self-Empathy for Greater Empowerment, Insight, Freedom, and Choice

Embracing the Body: A Six Week Program on Somatic-Self-Empathy for Greater Empowerment, Insight, Freedom, and Choice

MP4 Video Download

6 Sessions

Recorded in 2021

Learn your body’s “language” and how to listen deeply to it
Expand your NVC toolbox with emergency self-empathy tips
Explore drawing on your senses to get past what is blocking you
Discover and practice that “missing step” in the NVC process

Unpacking Layers of Discrimination

Unpacking Layers of Discrimination

MP4 Video Download

1 Session

Recorded in 2021

Learn the complexities of intersectionality
Gain a deeper understanding of the affects of differing life experiences
Clear the way for a more authentic connection
Deepen your ability to hold others in compassion

From Shame to Vulnerability

From Shame to Vulnerability

MP4 Video Download

4 Sessions

Recorded in 2021

Discover what triggers shame in you, and how to transform it
Learn to navigate a shame attack and make good use of it
Expand your capacity for recognizing when others are experiencing shame
Connect with others who get trapped in shame avoidance patterns
Allow your vulnerability to bloom by disentangling shame from fear

Set your Intentions with Attention

Set your Intentions with Attention

Kristin Masters

MP4 Video Download

3 Sessions

Recorded in 2019

Inquire into your celebrations and mournings in four important categories of your life – body, heart, mind, and spirit – and "take stock" of how satisfied you are in these areas
Assess your current and past relationships to life, with an eye to leaning into intention setting for the next short (30 days) and midterm (6 months to 1 year) periods of time
Give and capture empathy for your future self, the self that revisits your intentions in 30, 180, and 360 days (this provides companionship for your future self)

NVC for Social Change: Navigating Systemic Issues with Compassion

NVC for Social Change: Navigating Systemic Issues with Compassion

MP4 Video Download

8 Sessions

Recorded in 2020

Understand the essential relationship between personal healing and social change — and how to communicate it to others.
Increase your compassion capacity for different ways of being in the world.
Get clarity about the difference between equity and equality — and how to generate equitable processes in your communities and networks.
Obtain tools to explore the various factors that contribute to your understanding of power and privilege — including your own.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life