Welcome to the NVC Library

Learn the two core aspects of NVC: consciousness and tools to express it.

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.

In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, explores observation in contrast to interpretation, and leads an exercise in observation skills.

Please join us as we remember the work and life of Inbal Kashtan. She offered this parenting Q&A session in NVC Academy's 2013 Parenting Conference.

Discover how Nonviolent Communication helped integrate spirituality into daily life and work.

NVC trainers discuss intrinsic needs in addiction and its alignment with 12-step programs.

Susan Skye unpacks the need for respect, offering clarity for requests and personal experience.

Tired of flat, confusing empathy? Cultivate a natural, authentic flow for greater connection.

Join Susan Skye in this hour-long audio recording to learn how to experience the NVC consciousness as an embodied, living practice of the 'Living Energy of Needs."  This recording includes a supportive learning exercise and tips for expressing needs in a non-mechanical way.

"Over the years, I have noticed that people -- including trainers and facilitators --     use the words of the NVC process without full connection to life energy, often resulting in a failure to get to a full connection with actual life energy of these qualities that we have named "needs." This results in a mechanical communication model, rather than a true empathic connection. Join me in learning how to share NVC as an embodied, living practice of the 'Living Energy of Needs."
—Susan Skye

In this enlightening Trainer Conversation, three veteran CNVC Certified Trainers discuss whether NVC can be learned without first learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as the trainers grapple with the question, eventually covering a wide-range of topics including the spirituality and true essence of NVC.

Explore compassionate ways to handle volatile counseling situations in dialogue form.

Veteran Trainer Sylvia Haskvitz reviews the key distinctions/differentiations in NVC.

Ask the Trainer: Dealing with judgments about you when the speaker's true unmet need is hidden.

Ask the Trainer: Guidance for NVC groups on when and how to make requests, especially negative ones.

Sylvia teaches emotion management, connecting feelings to needs, and "Screaming in Giraffe."

Learn how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can improve the quality of your personal and professional relationships, one interaction at a time.