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  1. Foundational NVC Skills

    Foundational NVC Skills

    Requests

    John Kinyon

    Audio · 1 hour, 25 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Marshall Rosenberg 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 offers an easy-to-digest overview of how carefully crafted requests inspire joyful relationships.

  2. Staying Present in the Face of Conflict

    Staying Present in the Face of Conflict

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Jim and Jori offer a tip to stay present in the face of our reactivity to witnessed conflict.

  3. Cultivating Gratitude

    Cultivating Gratitude

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 4/5/2020

    Here's a five-step 30 day practice to cultivate gratitude, using the practice of observations, needs, feelings, presence, vitality, awareness of contribution, sharing power and interdependence.

  4. A Worldwide Field of Compassion

    A Worldwide Field of Compassion

    (8 Session Course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 10 - 12 Hours · 4/19/2023

    In A Worldwide Field of Compassion, Robert Gonzales presents an engaging course steeped in compassion-based self-discovery for ourselves and all life. Recorded in 2020, this 8-session course includes handouts, readings, exercises, and video recordings!

  5. Ever since the Women's Movement of the 60s and 70s, we have known that "the personal is the political" – that individual suffering and challenges often have their source in the social systems within which we live.

    How can we mobilize this insight in support of our own and others' healing?

    Join Miki Kashtan for this course designed to shed light on how the social context into which we are born affects our experience, and what we can do about it at the individual level within the paradigm of nonviolence. 

  6. Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

    Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

    Inbal Kashtan

    Video · 16 minutes · 07/28/2010

    See how to better connect with children’s needs, especially when they resist or react to requests.

  7. Patterns That Perpetuate Conflict - Part 2 of 2

    Patterns That Perpetuate Conflict - Part 2 of 2

    Bob Wentworth

    Articles · 8 - 12 minutes · 11/23/2022

    Here we explore variants of conflict patterns in part two (of this two part series) that include: refuting "straw man arguments"; not checking understanding, repeating unhelpful behaviour; repeatedly asking for what's already given; asserting rather than demonstrating responsiveness; assumptions; denying conflict exists; neglecting interdependence; stonewalling; absence of curiosity, humility, respect, empathy or care (even when reflecting).

  8. Create Space to Support Change

    Create Space to Support Change

    Itzel Hayward, Kathy Simon

    Video · 3 min 20 sec · 03/03/2024

    What is empowered speech and how does it link to interdependence? How do you speak in a way that increases the chances of being heard and creates space where individuals are more inclined to listen and act? In this excerpt from the 2021 course, Working Together for Change, Itzel and Kathy explore how to do this by integrating empowered speech, attuned speech, and a commitment to maintaining connections.

  9. The human species is trained and habituated towards separation. This model encourages humans to either give up on their needs or fight for their needs. In this short video, Miki shares how increasing capacity shifts habits of separation and supports holding of all needs. Through intensive lifelong practices we learn to increase our capacity to receive and to increase our capacity to be generous supports our overall capacity to hold all needs.

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