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Simple Self-Empathy Tools to Help You Enjoy the Holidays

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. Keywords: consciousness feelings presence self empathy compassion connection gratitude healing personal growth self compassion self talk families relationships Family Conflict family communication self connection holidays...
Honest & Conscious Expression

Jim and Jori Manske explore the considerations of expressing ourselves honestly, considerations that lead to more fully conscious and nonviolent connections. Practices for Honest Expression 1. Each evening, review your day and consider how you expressed your honesty, and if and how you would like to do it differently in the future. 2. With a practice partner, replay scenarios with you playing...
Connected Parenting: Everyone's Needs Matter

In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, offers a profound insight that can change how we see and relate to our children. This recording is an excerpt from Inbal's audio CD, Connected Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Family Life. Keywords: demands empathy expression feelings giraffe and jackal needs anger connection...
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 Kinyon and Ike Lasater. NVC mediation can be applied to conflict in all types of situations — from organizational and community to personal relationships, and in four mediation contexts – internal, interpersonal, informal, and formal – as well as pre-...
Theoretical Underpinnings of NVC

Access this complete 8 session course Listen to this 8-part course recording and you will learn to: Understand the body of knowledge that makes up the NVC practice Get answers to all the “why” questions you always wanted to ask about NVC Shift NVC from mechanics to deep practice by understanding the power of each element Learn the principles that underlie the practice Make the connection...
Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration

Miki works with a course participant to transform begrudging attendance at a mandatory meeting into the possibility for collaboration, more connection where little is expected and focus on clarity of purpose for meeting in the first place. In this segment, Miki refers to 4 questions that workshop participants were asked to consider coming into the session . Think of a situation in your...
Connecting to Humanity

Trainer Tip See into life—don’t just look at it. —Anne Baxter Consider the possibility that everyone on the planet has the same basic needs—that in fact, having the same needs is part of what makes us human. We all need love, shelter, food, water, connection, fulfillment, and to be valued. In each household, culture, or country, the ways we go about meeting these needs might vary, but not the...
Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

Trainer Tip “I think patience is what love is,” he said, “because how could you love somebody without it?” —Jane Howard You pop into your colleague’s office to say hi and ask what time it is. He offers a lengthy dissertation on how clocks work. You think you could walk out the door without him noticing, but deep down, you respect him and you want to maintain a cordial relationship. On the other...
Neither Rioting Nor Colluding

Young people in Baltimore and elsewhere are continuing to be killed for unfathomable reasons. Hurting people on all sides are roaring out in pain, demanding to be heard, and delivering hostile condemnation of each other’s actions. How do we talk about this? How to we say why the violence isn’t working for us without giving the impression that we’re condoning injustice? And how do we keep the...
Dealing with Loss

Access this complete 3 session course This gentle, healing telecourse recording will assist you in unearthing feelings and issues that have become tangled up with loss, enabling you to face whatever is blocking your grief. Gain an understanding of your relationship to grief Recognize and free yourself from your judgmental mind Change guilt and shame into life-serving empathy Distinguish between...