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

Interactive dialogue addresses common questions for new NVC facilitators and trainers.

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

Mary Mackenzie shares how to build vibrant groups and clearly define a facilitator’s role.

Gitta Zimmerman leads an advanced workshop on mediation and entrepreneurship for street workers.

Mary shares how to stay focused on group purpose and offers three tips for handling diversions.

Mary shares tips for tracking group energy, presence, and participation for balanced inclusion.

The focus of this 6-session class is on shifting the intention of your teaching from how to why while embodying the principles and practice of NVC every step of the way - from planning to delivery. The methodology Miki offers is to start with understanding what the people in your audience face in their environment, continue with what they might want to learn and how NVC principles can provide them with what they want, and end with how you can frame the principles in a language and context that speak to your audience’s familiar experience. 

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 how to track requests, agreements, time, and purpose while refining tracking skills.

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

Mary Mackenzie shares how to stay connected and responsive when triggered while leading a group.

Creating your own exercises deepens learning and helps you develop a unique teaching style.

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

Mary shares seven steps to keep NVC groups engaged, energized, and moving forward.

It’s one thing to share NVC with those who’re interested, but what about those who aren’t? How does meeting someone where they are create space for learning, and help you find a pathway forward? Miki Answers this and more.

CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan explains has developed a path to teaching NVC without relying on OFNR: Principle-based Teaching.

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.