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

Exploring ways to stay compassionate and connected when someone seems angry or controlling.

Listen as Mary Mackenzie shares an eight step path to create your own NVC learning activities, based on your own NVC learning experience. In this session, Mary uses the value of requests and observations as teaching examples.

Mary explains group participation and clarifies the often-misunderstood facilitator role.

Learn three tips to handle distractions from a group’s purpose, like long empathy requests.

Learn tips for tracking group energy, presence, participation, and inclusion effectively.

Learn to track requests, agreements, time, and session purpose with helpful tips.

Listen to Miki talk about the value of participating in groups, recognizing our inherent nature to do so, how industrialization has hindered our skills and the value of participating in a time when it's most needed.

It seems to me that people see ideas which are different from theirs as threatening. Instead of listening, the group polarizes around the different ideas and a lot of judgments develop, conflicts develop and people feel hurt. Forward progress becomes a battle ground. How can I support more collaboration?

How can I deal with someone who is constantly interrupting and derailing our process?

Learn tips for responding with care and connection when triggered in NVC groups.

Creating teaching exercises builds consciousness and helps develop your unique teaching style.

Breaking workshop planning into bite-size steps reduces overwhelm and sparks creativity.

Learn seven steps to keep NVC groups engaged and energized.

Listen to Mary tackle one of the greatest challenges of facilitating an NVC group: How do you deal with hecklers and people you don't like? Mary offers insightful tips and helpful guidance.

CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan shares a tip on holding a group's needs while empathizing with a single person in the group.

Ever wondered how to balance everyone’s needs when leading a NVC group? In the first part of the video, Mary shares tips how to balance the facilitator's, the individuals members' and the group's needs. In the second part, Mary talks about transparency as a facilitator - what does it mean, what does it look like and how to be transparent in a way that is supportive for the group.

Leading an Nonviolent Communication workshop is a good way to learn and practice NVC skills. Here are Shantigrabha and Gesine's seven top tips for facilitators.

Certified CNVC trainer Roxy Manning, Phd, answers a question: how to create a safe space for a first time group working on power and privileges ?