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  1. Confirmation and Feedback Requests

    Confirmation and Feedback Requests

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Video · 4 minutes · 11/27/2024

    Jim and Jori Manske share the wisdom of Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join them to learn why knowing what you want before speaking is essential for clear, meaningful interactions. This snippet from their eight session course, 9 Skills for Navigating Conflict, explores how to make "confirmation requests" to ensure you're understood—whether you're navigating a tough conversation or simply ordering pizza!
  2. Breaking Barriers:

    Breaking Barriers:

    Roxy Manning

    Live Zoom Course · ·

    • Explore how gender power dynamics impact everyday interactions
    • Learn how to navigate these complexities with curiosity and compassion
    • Gain the skills to build inclusive personal and professional environments
    • Contribute to a world where every voice matters!
  3. Can 12 Seconds Save the World?

    Can 12 Seconds Save the World?

    Iris Bawidamann

    Peaceful Living Blog · ·

    Hello,

    I’m Iris Bawidamann. When Mary reached out to me asking if I’d write this letter, I sat for some time meditating on what is alive for me and what I want to share with you… This is what surfaced for me… Fear sits with me—on my shoulders, in my chest. A familiar presence I consciously keep in check so it doesn’t take over. Watching global politics, conflicts, and rising polarization, I often feel overwhelmed. The world is shifting.

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    Melissa .

    Author Support · ·

  5. Intrinsic Need for Respect

    Intrinsic Need for Respect

    Susan Skye

    Audio · 13 minutes · 7/31/2010

    In this short but profound audio, Susan Skye unpacks the various ways one may view (and experience) the need for respect. By deepening your understanding of respect, you will enjoy greater choice and clarity in your own experience of respect and in making a request of others.

  6. About Empathy

    About Empathy

    Mary Mackenzie

    Video · 8 minutes · 07/29/2010

    Mary Mackenzie, renowned CNVC Certified Trainer, shares her understanding and experience of empathy.

  7. Self-Management = More Joy at Work

    Self-Management = More Joy at Work

    Dian Killian

    Articles · 5 - 8 minutes · 3/30/2019

    Want to manage more effectively with more ease and joy and get your staff to make changes? The first, crucial step is to learn how to change your behavior to impact what's happening. For example, we can get the inner clarity we need to reframe questions we ask ourselves, recap, make clear requests, give concrete feedback, etc. This article expands on how self-management can increase influence...

  8. Responding to Criticism

    Responding to Criticism

    At Work and At Home

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Articles · 7 - 11 minutes · 9/24/2019

    In general, criticism is a reactive response discomfort. When someone criticizes, they are not yet able or willing take responsibility for their needs. All criticism is a tragic expression of feelings and unmet needs. When you meet that criticism skillfully you not only care for yourself, you can facilitate clarity, and constructive communication, about what the other person is truly asking for.

  9. Abusive Relationships and Nonviolence

    Abusive Relationships and Nonviolence

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 8 - 12 minutes · 9/5/2020

    In order to bring in more nonviolence into the world, we need to take our own needs seriously and recognize that no amount of seeing someone’s innocence would mean putting up with more of their harmful behavior. We need to disentangle compassion towards another from the willingness to tolerate more harmful actions. At times this means finding enough self-love, support, or clarity, to take decisive action. Read on for more.

  10. Intention and Effect

    Intention and Effect

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 12 - 18 minutes · 8/9/2020

    When someone expresses upset about our actions, and we focus on our intention being seen and understood (e.g. "I didn’t mean to hurt you”) it doesn't support the speaker in being heard more deeply with care. Here we'll explore this dynamic in a way that supports more clarity and the possibility of greater personal liberation. Read on for more.

  11. Finding Worthiness and Belonging

    Finding Worthiness and Belonging

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 4/12/2021

    Worthlessness and shame are linked to the idea of not belonging or being unworthy of belonging -- that is, a deep sense of belonging to life, to your sense of self, and to our earth. Compensatory strategies to win worthiness and belonging arise from here and effectively block the very thing it is pursuing. Transformation occurs when there is a critical mass of clarity about the harm of a particular way of thinking and behaving.

  12. Crafting Connection Requests

    Crafting Connection Requests

    Inbal Kashtan, Miki Kashtan

    Practice Exercises · 2 - 3 minutes · 11/14/2021

    Try this four step exercise for making connection requests to support understanding, and to learn what effect your words had on the listener. In this exercise you'll choose a situation where you have clarity about what outcome will really work for you (your solution request), but where you imagine your desired outcome may not work for the other person, and/or are not sure there is sufficient connection for mutual trust.

  13. Six Ways That Support You Being Heard

    Six Ways That Support You Being Heard

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 6 - 9 minutes · 1/16/2022

    When you don't have a sense of being heard you can apply skills to help you can interrupt cycles of reactivity and resentment, and create connection. Let's look at six ways that will support you in being heard. These are clarity about the topic and needs; supportive conditions; respect for autonomy; sharing your intention; attending to emotional security; and making clear requests.

  14. Exercise On Self Responsibility

    Exercise On Self Responsibility

    Robert Gonzales

    Practice Exercises · 1 - 2 minutes · 2/18/2022

    Self responsibility is owning what's yours. It involves identifying your observations, evaluations, feelings, longings, and more. When we identify what's truly ours we are unlikely to mistake it as coming from outside of us. Self responsibility is not self blame. Without self responsibility, we project, blame and judge. Self-responsibility is central to clarity and full self-awareness. This exercise will guide you there.

  15. A Positive Relationship With Reactivity

    A Positive Relationship With Reactivity

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 4 - 6 minutes · 4/22/2022

    With practice we can prevent reactivity from overtaking and harming: notice signs of reactivity, bring compassion to it, see reactivity as the misperception of threat and a distortion of what's happening, plus engage and pursue connection and the clarity to weaken reactive impulses. In taking responsibility like this overtime, you can live from your values and from care. And life can get easier for you and others around you.

  16. The Basics of Life-Serving Boundaries

    The Basics of Life-Serving Boundaries

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 4 - 6 minutes · 11/26/2022

    Setting boundaries takes being firmly grounded in self-respect and clear about what works for you. This means making conscious choices about how you relate to another or behave in a situation. Such clarity allows you to put your attention and energy where you want it to go. Thus we can have care and compassion without taking responsibility for others, nor feeling guilty when we say “no”. This takes awareness, skills, practice, healing and compassion.

  17. In this insightful snippet from Sarah Peyton, discover how connecting requests can transform conversations into meaningful exchanges. Referred to as the "steering wheel" of NVC dialogue, connecting requests shift the focus from action to connection, creating clarity and understanding.
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