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How to Stay Present & Vulnerable in Difficult Conversations
Video • 2 min 10 sec • 12/5/2025
Oren Jay Sofer shares how to stay present and grounded during difficult conversations, especially when we feel judged or criticized. He describes how awareness of bodily sensations—such as tension, trembling, or the urge to react—can help us channel our energy in a constructive way. Oren highlights the shift from focusing on others’ judgments to identifying our own feelings and needs, which restores clarity and empowerment. By learning these skills, we can transform reactive moments into opportunities for understanding, connection, and self-awareness.
What is Empathy?
Video • 2 - 3 minutes • 11/25/2025
Empathy is presence: Mary Mackenzie shows how NVC helps us deeply hear and understand others.
Pause Difficult Conversations with Skill and Self-Connection
Video • 4 minutes • 11/20/2025
Oren Jay Sofer explains how we can stay grounded and maintain choice during overwhelming or emotionally charged conversations. He highlights the importance of presence—feeling our feet, noticing our breath, and expanding our awareness—to counter the fight-or-flight response and self-regulate. Oren also teaches a simple three-part structure for pausing a conversation without damaging the relationship: affirm the connection, state your limit, and offer a next step. By practicing and even memorizing a short version of this framework, we can exit challenging moments with clarity, care, and self-respect.
Healing Trauma, Finding Forgiveness Partners, Parents, Children, and Self (7 session course)
Video • 7 session course • 11/10/2025
What happens when empathy isn't enough?
When you and the people you love keep getting into the same argument again and again with no resolution or change, it can feel deeply distressing. It may even be challenging to hold on to hope. Realizing what trauma is – a phenomenon that affects us all – increases your self-compassion and gives you solid ground to stand on. Then, when you begin to integrate the tool of unconscious contract work, you can become intimate with your own survival strategies and those of the people you love.
Why NVC Matters To Me?
Video • 2 minutes • 10/20/2025
What drew you to Nonviolent Communication? In this touching reflection, a longtime NVC trainer, Mary Mackenzie, shares the moment that first lit her up with hope.
The Power of Making Requests
Video • 10 minutes • 10/05/2025
Mary Mackenzie shares how making requests in NVC builds honesty, trust, and deeper connection.
Facilitating Deeper Understanding
Video • 1 min 43 sec • 09/25/2025
Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a meaningful way.
Clarifying the Confusion About Responsibility for Others' Feelings
Video • 7 minutes • 09/20/2025
Yoram Mosenzon explores the core NVC principle that others do not cause our feelings—our interpretations and unmet needs do.
What do we do when someone speaks to us in a way that doesn’t feel respectful? In this video, Oren Jay Sofer explores how NVC invites us to listen for the feelings and needs behind harsh or judgmental words — not because we “should,” but because it gives us more choice and freedom in how we respond.
Oren J. Sofer offers an NVC approach to navigating tough moments—balancing honest self-expression with deep listening. Discover how centering yourself, naming your intentions, and hearing the other person first can create the understanding needed for true connection.
What Is NVC? A Restorative Path to Connection and Healing
Video • 2 minutes • 08/20/2025
NVC can be seen as a restorative practice that reconnects us with life, trust, and the experience of mattering.
Overcoming Fear and Taking Action
Video • 2 min 34 sec • 07/05/2025
Fear and self-doubt often hold us back from taking action, but Roxy Manning urges us to confront these barriers, prepare for challenges, and build strong support systems. Social change is tough, and frustration is inevitable, but by embracing our humanity and staying committed, we can create meaningful impact. The key is to step in with courage, empathy, and a plan to sustain the journey.
Empathizing with Loved Ones
Video • 4-5 minutes • 06/20/2025
Mary Mackenzie explains that empathizing with our closest loved ones can be difficult because they matter so deeply to us, past experiences might create emotional barriers, and we might fear losing ourselves in the process.
Connection Before Solution: Building Stronger Relationships
Video • 3 minutes • 05/20/2025
Prioritize connection before solutions by understanding each other's needs first.
In times of conflict, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves and our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to self-connection, empathy, and choice.
Empathy Buddy Practice Helps Develop Empathy Skills
Video • 2 minutes • 04/25/2025
Are you looking to deepen your connection to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and build powerful empathy skills? In this short video, Mary Mackenzie shares how finding an empathy buddy transformed her life and practice.
Repairing Relationships with Empathy
Video • 4 minutes • 04/20/2025
NVC trainer Sarah Peyton explores the process of repairing relationships through the lens of Nonviolent Communication. She emphasizes the importance of self-connection and empathy—both for ourselves and others—when addressing moments of hurt or disconnection.
Transforming Needs Into Compassionate Connection
Video • 2-3 minutes • 04/10/2025
Iris Bawidamann explains how needs, like appreciation, can easily turn into demands or self-blame when approached from a place of lack or expectation. This practice is based on the work of Living Compassion, shared by Robert Gonzales, focusing on the beauty of needs and the living energy of needs
How to Express Gratitude and Appreciation in Intimate Relationships
Video • 6 minutes • 04/05/2025
CNVC trainer Yoram Mosenzon shares how expressing specific and authentic appreciation can deepen connection in intimate relationships. He emphasizes the importance of making clear observations without judgment and connecting with the feelings and needs that arise from meaningful gestures.
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.
