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Mind Matters Most And You Reap What You Sow
Articles • 2-3 minutes • 04/02/2025
Our inner world shapes what we do, including the results we see in relationships and social change efforts. Physical and verbal actions are expressions of what’s happening in our minds. If we want certain outcomes, it helps to be mindful of the intentions we plant within ourselves.
It is time to create true transparency, empathy and trust in your intimate relationships! In this inspiring telecourse recording, Kelly Bryson combines humor, music, group readings and experiential exercises to help you realize the fulfilling and intimate relationships you long for.
Developing a Needs Consciousness
Video • 2 minutes • 03/20/2025
Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful—and challenging—aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consciousness and transform how you experience your world and relationships.
Distinguishing between needs and strategies to meet needs is crucial for solving conflict. For example, the need for peace can be met through various strategies beyond solitude or gratitude. Similarly, sex is a strategy. Sexual expression is the need behind it, and can be met in various ways to meet that need without having sex itself. Such flexibility can foster creativity and deeper connection, enhancing relationships.
Discover how fostering strong attachment and connection with your child can lead to fewer conflicts and more harmonious interactions. Ingrid Bauer offers practical guidance on using empathy, self-connection, and consistent care to create a secure and loving environment for your child.
Exploring Conflict Agreements
Building Restorative Systems Across Diverse Communities
Video • 9 minutes • 03/04/2025
Here are five practical ideas from Ceri, Jo, and Sarah for creating simple agreements with any group you are working with when conflict arises!
Building Empathic Community in Organizations, Networks, and in our Personal Lives
Trainer Tips • 2-5 minutes • 3/1/2025
In a world facing crisis and deep divides, there's a need for empathic community and connection. Here we reflect upon the importance of empathy, consciousness, and building a sense of community to address complex challenges and promote well-being. Slowing down, engaging in empathic conversations, and committing to a practice of empathy and mindfulness could be essential for personal and societal transformation.
The Facilitator's Role
Video • 12 minutes • 02/25/2025
Listen in as Mary deftly blows the role of facilitator wide open in this excerpt from her very popular 2021 course, Facilitate NVC Groups with Joy and Confidence. She also covers a variety of useful tips such as what to do if you feel lost or confused, how to trust your gut, and ideas around utilizing empathy for yourself!
Inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's teachings, Kathleen Macferran's self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations.
Going Beyond Fear
Trainer Tips • 2 - 3 minutes • 2/15/2025
Fear can show up as a thought or feeling. When we think and dwell on fear and get stuck, fear becomes our worst enemy. For a healthier approach, discover what brings up the emotion of fear by looking for the unmet need behind it. Next, identify the stimulus for the fear. Then satisfy the need(s) with suitable strategies. You can also reassure yourself based on the truth, evidence, and facts. Or ask a friend for support.
Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill
Video • 7 min 40 sec • 02/05/2025
Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from “What’s wrong with them?” to “What's important to me?”
You Are Not Responsible for Other People's Feelings
Trainer Tips • 1 - 2 minutes • 2/1/2025
Trainer Tip: While everyone's feelings are a result of their own met or unmet needs it's still important that we take responsibility for our actions. This means acknowledging when our behaviors are a stimulus for another's pain, and expressing regret -- to support our own needs for care and consideration. In the process, taking responsibility where it's due in this way can enhance and deepen our relationships.
The 4-Part Nonviolent Communication Process
Learning Tools • 1 - 2 minutes • 01/29/2025
There are four components to the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) model, as developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. The 4-Part NVC Process can guide you to express how you are, or they can be used to empathically receive how another is.
Navigating Systemic Change
The Role of NVC in Addressing Immediate and Long-term Challenges
Video • 12 minutes • 01/25/2025
In this excerpt from Roxy Manning's 2019 Social Change session at the NVCfest, she explores the application of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to address both immediate conflicts and broader systemic issues. She emphasizes the importance of intervening at multiple levels, from stopping harmful behavior in the moment to driving long-term societal change.
Setting Intentions with Attention
Video • 8 minutes • 01/20/2025
Kristin Masters explores how to approach goal-setting and self-reflection with compassion and mindfulness grounded in NVC principles. She encourages you to examine how conscious choice plays a role in how we treat ourselves and others.
“Do Over” Roleplay
Practice Exercises • 1-2 minutes • 01/15/2025
Instead of doing an "apology" using the NVC framework, you can do a "do over" to express regret. This roleplay exercise shows you how. You'll be talking about your needs that were not met by what you did, expressing what you wanted to say instead of what you said, and more.
Come. Let us journey together into our own authentic Life force: the essential living energy that permeates all of our lives.
Your journey will begin at the center: with the divine / life force, or soul force.
Robert Gonzales shares how this fundamental life energy is the tender expression of your inner being, or soul. It unfolds through the heart as your deepest longings, which manifest themselves in all forms of human needs and values. When you live from the energies of compassion, creativity, love, and clarity – while remaining wholly grounded and aware of needs and values – then you are living your passion… You are living the Self-In-Life.
How do our nervous systems sync during connection, and what happens when disconnection occurs? In this Sarah Peyton video, we explore the profound interdependence of human relationships through the lens of Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
"Acting from the Zero Step" Roleplay
Practice Exercises • 2-3 minutes • 01/01/2025
When Marshall designed NVC, he said that the purpose of it was to create a quality of connection, that inspires compassionate giving and receiving. The zero step is awakening or remembering your intention to support compassionate giving and receiving. Do this practice exercise to awaken this intention and to roleplay with it in your heart.
Calling In vs. Calling Out
NVC Strategies for Workplace Communication
Video • 5 min 37 sec • 12/25/2024
How can Nonviolent Communication (NVC) create more constructive conversations in the workplace? This video explores the key difference between calling someone in and calling them out, emphasizing the power of care over annoyance.
