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  1. Would you like to learn how to:

    • Use line and color to deeply connect with the feelings and needs that are alive for you ?
    • Find a way forward that comes from your creative self ?
    • Meet your creative self, even if you have never had the pleasure of meeting it before ?

    Come join Olga Nguyen for Neuroart / Visual NVC– even if you have never drawn or painted before, and even if you are a professional in the midst of a creative block!

  2. Unappreciated is NOT a Feeling

    Unappreciated is NOT a Feeling

    Rachelle Lamb

    Video · 2 minutes · 03/26/2017

    Unappreciated, Judged, Disrespected, Offended, Manipulated ... people use these words to describe feelings but these are all words that describe interpretations instead. They're also words that get people's backs up. Talk about unproductive! The solution? Develop a vocabulary of feelings so you can minimize defensiveness in others and facilitate connection.

  3. Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel

    Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 52 minutes · 10/25/2011

    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.

  4. Sharing Power

    Sharing Power

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 39 minutes · 10/25/2011

    Jim and Jori discuss sharing power through exploring our experience of having and not having power, how we make choices about our power and examining our relationship to power itself.

  5. How Does Change Take Place?

    How Does Change Take Place?

    Miki Kashtan

    Audio · 5 minutes · 9/18/2013

    How does change take place?  In this brief segment, Miki explores the three key ingredients that make change possible for individuals as well as for societal change.

  6. Open-Hearted Disagreement

    Open-Hearted Disagreement

    Miki Kashtan

    Audio · 6 minutes · 9/18/2013

    Miki demonstrates how to work with judgmental thinking, offering a two-step process to shift from right/wrong thinking about our disagreements to a more open-hearted state of being.

  7. The Needs of the Many

    The Needs of the Many

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM

    Audio · 11 minutes · 9/18/2013

    LoraKim Joyner addresses the sense of overwhelm that can accompany holding the needs of the many. Practicing self-empathy is a pathway to living in the tension of mutually holding my needs and the needs of others.

  8. Resolving Conflict in Congregations

    Resolving Conflict in Congregations

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM

    Audio · 10 minutes · 9/18/2013

    LoraKim explores what gets in the way of seeing the inherent worth and dignity of others when there is conflict in congregations. The strategies LoraKim offers can be applied to any spiritual community.

  9. Transforming Drama in Congregations

    Transforming Drama in Congregations

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM

    Audio · 7 minutes · 9/18/2013

    Developing interpersonal relationship skills in congregations is integral to working with the conflicts that arise. These skills can be applied to any spiritual community.

  10. Listen as Liv shares her experience of mediating conflict between two groups: using NVC to ascertain the needs of both sides, raise awareness, and diminish polarization.

  11. We can trick ourselves into keeping the status quo, feeling unworthy, and blocking access to critical awareness necessary that allows for new creative solutions to emerge -- when we think in terms of who has "earned" or “deserved” what.

  12. Attending to Inner Conflict

    Attending to Inner Conflict

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 13 - 19 minutes · 5/17/2019

    When we have an inner conflict, how can we bring ourselves closer where we want to be? Miki explains about how we can deepen our self understanding in a way that can transform our own reactivity, urges, and false either/or views -- so that we can bring in more presence, choice, and options.

  13. Do you want to increase your capacity to identify and connect with feelings and needs?  Would you like to enhance your ability to translate judgments? Join Miki for this deep dive into feelings and needs.

  14. Five Tips For Reading The News Without Losing It

    Five Tips For Reading The News Without Losing It

    Oren Jay Sofer

    Articles · 5 - 8 minutes · 12/26/2019

    Is it dangerous for large numbers of people to be absorbing disturbing news alone? Given the intensity of our times, making choices based on conscious awareness and discernment in relation to current events is essential for our ability to stay engaged, and to also wisely meet our collective challenges with agency and power. Here are five tips for how to help stay sane in relation to the news cycle.

  15. How to Find Strength During a Crisis

    How to Find Strength During a Crisis

    Oren Jay Sofer

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 4/7/2020

    During a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, we can draw upon inner and outer resources: gratitude, awareness of our senses and breath, plus compassion for self and others. We can also expand our understanding to curtail fear -- and limit the amount of time and energy we spend fighting and resisting the truth of what’s happening.

  16. A Brief Introduction to "The Work"

    A Brief Introduction to "The Work"

    Arnina Kashtan

    Video · 8 minutes · 09/05/2021

    In this brief introduction to The Work from Byron Katie, Arnina shows the connection of The Work to Nonviolent Communication. Arnina points out how the first two questions of The Work correspond to the observation step of the NVC process, and invites us into deeper self-inquiry.

  17. However indirectly expressed, any judgement or criticism is about the person's own thoughts, feelings, needs, and requests.This awareness can help you take people's comments less personally, and give you options: silent self-empathy, standing in your truth, contact and curiosity, and honest expression.

  18. When was the last time you were in a situation with an overwhelming feeling of shame or an unnerving fear of 'doing it wrong'? Sometimes we get sweaty palms or a dry mouth, maybe we freeze on the spot or start an unhelpful internal monologue that makes the situation feel even worse. In this months NVC Life Hack Gesine takes a closer look at her own experience with shame and the fear of doing it wrong.

  19. We can get stuck in our heads. All kinds of thoughts float into our minds. We then get thoughts about those thoughts, they might even make you feel a certain way or change a behaviour. But what happens when we connect our feelings with the physical sensations in our bodies? As part of our teaching at NVC we have incorporated movement work to help us connect with where we hold emotions and how we can process them effectively.

  20. Integrating Inner And Outer

    Integrating Inner And Outer

    Robert Gonzales

    Practice Exercises · 1 - 2 minutes · 2/24/2022

    This exercise brings forth presence, awareness, and witnessing regarding what you observe. And also the inner form of experiencing: thinking, feeling, sensing, longing, and noticing any inner resistance. This exercise is designed to allow self-compassion to clear the inner space, and to help you feel it as a flow of energy, presence to the other, and bring in a more relaxed experience and more availability to vulnerability.

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