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Going Deep

yelling at you. The questions above, if done in a sincere spirit of curiosity and inquiry, will take you and others to deeper and deeper values and Universal Human Needs. --Alan Seid Keywords: exercises/practices needs strategies values interests positions wants desires universal human needs motivations Alan Seid
Beyond Right and Wrong

for anyone who wants to begin their journey of learning NVC, as a refresher on the basics of NVC or as study guide for those who want to learn new ways to teach NVC. Keywords: consciousness exercises/practices expression feelings giraffe and jackal honesty needs observation requests strategies compassion connection inspiration listening personal growth teaching NVC universal human needs NVC...
Healing and Reconciliation

group dynamics group decisions group agreements conflict resolution conflict letting go pain emotional pain old pain acceptance enemy images making agreements amends making amends reconciliation exercises/practices mediation first session free Ike Lasater John Kinyon Mediate Your Life
Principles of Nonviolent Communication

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 explore the concept of "needs" in the NVC process, examine feelings and finally learn the NVC process of self-empathy. True to Mary's style,...
Connected Parenting: Making Observations

and leads an exercise in observation skills. This recording is an excerpt from Inbal's audio CD, Connected Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Family Life. Keywords: interpretation exercises/practices observation connection judgment families parenting relationships family conflict family communication observation skills Inbal Kashtan
From Self-Connection to Self-Expression

This often creates distance instead of fostering connection. Yoram introduces a self-connection exercise to improve the chances of dialogue becoming more enriching and life-serving. Keywords: exercises/practices judgment self connection criticism jackal show jackal thinking self expression Yoram Mosenzon
Working With Anger

Fully connecting to the deeper need under the anger can transform and release the anger, without requiring the other person to do anything differently. From there, you can reach an understanding of the other person's experience, feelings and needs underlying the actions that stimulated your anger to re-establish connection with your own and the other person's humanity. Read this practice...
Somatic-Based Empathy

Use this interactive empathy exercise to track the relationship and shifting of body sensations, feelings and needs as you note them out loud. Read this practice exercise Keywords: empathy somatic Eric Bowers
Working With Our Mixed “Yes”

For this exercise choose a situation in which you have said a “yes” to someone‛s request but you didn't experience your “yes” as given freely or joyfully. Then explore judgements, feelings, needs, and alternate strategies that come up in relation to your “yes”, your “no”, and in relation to what the other person might be experiencing. Read this practice exercise Keywords: mixed yes yes behind...
Working With Others' Mixed “Yes”

In this exercise choose a situation in which you got a “yes” to your request but you are not confident that it was agreed to freely or joyfully. Then explore your response to their “yes”, and possible unexpressed "no", with related observations, judgements, feelings, needs, requests, and alternate strategies that come up. Read this practice exercise Keywords: submission yes behind the no duty...