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  1. Modeling Behaviors You’d Like to Receive

    Modeling Behaviors You’d Like to Receive

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Trainer Tip: The ways that we interact with our children shape the way they will interact in their world. How do your actions model compassion, tolerance, and love for your children?

  2. Finding Our True Self

    Finding Our True Self

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Trainer Tip: Accepting our true feelings, needs and values can lead us to a more compassionate life. Are you being true to yourself?

  3. Meeting Our Need for Honesty

    Meeting Our Need for Honesty

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Trainer Tip: Mary offers a perspective on how to know if our need for honesty is being met.

  4. The Power of Empathy

    The Power of Empathy

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/26/2014

    Trainer Tip: When someone is in pain and lashing out, might be a time when empathy is needed most. Empathizing in these moments can be very challenging. Mary offers a few words of ecouragement for these situations.

  5. Taking Responsibility for Your Choices

    Taking Responsibility for Your Choices

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/10/2014

    Trainer Tip: Giving up on blame and taking responsibilty for our choices is immensely empowering. Mary offers a tip for growing in this direction.

  6. Transforming Bias

    Transforming Bias

    Oren Jay Sofer

    Articles · 5 - 8 minutes · 2/10/2020

    Mindfulness is paying attention in a balanced and nonjudgmental way. To practice mindfulness is to uncover our own biases, revealing we less neutral and objective than we think. This takes great humility. Each time we become aware of our own unconscious biases and blind spots, our world expands. Read on for more about practices to help us see, and transform, our own biases.

  7. How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends

    How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends

    Liv Larsson

    Trainer Tips · 21 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: "Could you explore why people 'talk too much' and how I could connect with them and myself empathically when I'm also talking too much?"

  8. Shifting the Way We Do Things

    Shifting the Way We Do Things

    Bob Wentworth

    Articles · 3 - 5 minutes · 11/10/2020

    The way we talk to one another, and think about or react to our lives, may seem "normal" but eventually, this may reach a point where we realize something isn't working, and we make adjustments. But often the suffering continues if we aren't addressing root causes. In studying NVC we can become more aware of what we are doing and its effects -- plus imagine and implement alternatives that lead to greater fulfillment for self and others.

  9. Healthy Differentiation

    Healthy Differentiation

    Learning To Be Your Authentic Self

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 6 - 9 minutes · 10/15/2022

    Healthy differentiation is key to personal growth, learning and thriving relationships. When healthy differentiation is present, you can discern what's true for you and what you are and aren't responsible for in an interaction, and can be fully who you are in the presence of others. There are a number of ways you can become aware of and cultivate healthy differentiation. Let’s look at two here: self-connection and autonomy.

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