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  1. Street NVC

    Street NVC

    "Street Ease" Empathy Exercise

    Dian Killian

    Practice Exercises · 5 minutes · 02/26/2020

    Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian guide and ease you into a more natural expression of empathy. This is a three person exercise. Listen in and then give it a try!

  2. Crafting Connection Requests

    Crafting Connection Requests

    Inbal Kashtan, Miki Kashtan

    Practice Exercises · 2 - 3 minutes · 11/14/2021

    Try this four step exercise for making connection requests to support understanding, and to learn what effect your words had on the listener. In this exercise you'll choose a situation where you have clarity about what outcome will really work for you (your solution request), but where you imagine your desired outcome may not work for the other person, and/or are not sure there is sufficient connection for mutual trust.

  3. Poetic License

    Poetic License

    Christine King, Jean Morrison

    Practice Exercises · N/A · 3/16/2011

    Poetic License is a fun group exercise that's sure to incite laughter in your NVC group!

  4. Practice Tracking Various Living States of Being

    Practice Tracking Various Living States of Being

    Robert Gonzales

    Practice Exercises · 3 - 5 minutes · 2/3/2022

    Use this exercise to identify what state you're in at any moment, and as an exercise to grow capacity for self-awareness and self-compassion. Identify what happened, thoughts, sensations, feelings, longings, etc. Includes a table that outlines three states of being: Protective/Defensive, Vulnerability, Essence.

  5. Expressing Anger Peacefully

    Expressing Anger Peacefully

    Raj Gill

    Audio · 1 hour, 16 minutes · 7/29/2010

    In this prerecorded telecourse, Raj Gil uses an interactive dialogue and proven exercises to help you develop a profoundly healthy response to anger, right in the moment.

  6. Join Jim Manske for practice exercises that will help you navigate away from reactivity toward a more compassionate way of being in the world, and learn to express vulnerable honesty (scary honesty)

  7. Living the Self-in-Life

    Living the Self-in-Life

    Presence and Self-Compassion

    Robert Gonzales

    Audio · 30 minutes · 10/1/2016

    During this very moving session, you'll dive into Robert's exercises for supporting connection to your true self as opposed to your conditioned self.

  8. CNVC Certified Trainers Jim and Jori Manske show you how to tune into the "Gratitude Channel," sharing exercises and practices to hone your awareness toward gratitude.

  9. Needs Consciousness

    Needs Consciousness

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Video · 1 hour, 35 minutes · 07/31/2019

    Jim and Jori discuss the root of Nonviolent Communication, needs consciousness. Participate in guided processes to deepen your own needs consciousness.

  10. Recovering from Reactivity Series

    Recovering from Reactivity Series

    Taking a Step Back

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 14 minutes · 5/28/2013

    Join Jim and Jori Manske in a thought experiment exercise designed to help us become more aware of our conditioning, allowing us to make more conscious and connected choices in the face of conflict.

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