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  1. Nonviolent Communication

    Nonviolent Communication

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/28/2020

    Trainer Tip: The Nonviolent Communication process strengthens our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. It provides tools to promote peaceful living on a daily basis. Be aware today of the times that your behaviors or attitudes promote distrust and self-protection, rather than compassion and humanity.

  2. There are five aspects helpful to consider when creating conditions and atmosphere where you can be heard deeply and hear others deeply: context, self-connection, autonomy, security, and specific requests. Read on for more, and reflect on moments when you have been heard deeply and name everything that contributed to that experience.

  3. A Process For Changing Habits

    A Process For Changing Habits

    LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

    Articles · 5 - 7 minutes · 10/9/2021

    Let's take a look at life-serving possibilities for changing a habit: contemplation of the benefits and costs of the habit, changing the conditions in your life to support the new habit, and taking support away from the old habit. Read on for more.

  4. Trainer Tip: Take a moment to consider feelings, our conditioning about expressing or even feeling emotion, and the value of re-evaluating our relationship to feelings.

  5. Recovering from Reactivity Series

    Recovering from Reactivity Series

    Taking a Step Back

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 14 minutes · 5/28/2013

    Join Jim and Jori Manske in a thought experiment exercise designed to help us become more aware of our conditioning, allowing us to make more conscious and connected choices in the face of conflict.

    • Explore the complexities of how we can care for all of life using NVC
    • See the role that power plays in relation to observations, feelings, needs, and requests
    • Learn how to support people from many backgrounds in being able to apply NVC 
    • Discern how to engage with these vast topics as we learn and share NVC
  6. Being Open to Feeling

    Being Open to Feeling

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 6/9/2014

    Trainer Tip: Most of us have been conditioned to withhold the expression of our feelings to some degree. Mary offers a tip to de-stigmatize our feelings and relax into our humanness.

  7. Read how an American Buddhist NVC teacher with Jewish roots reflects on how any dehumanization in the Israel-Hamas conflict can be used to justify all kinds of violence that can escalate for generations. With acknowledgment of the complexities, his desire is for us to bring in respect, dignity and peace -- for both Israelis and Palestinians. He emphasizes compassionate advocacy of all humanity amid the ongoing crisis.

  8. Tips for the Road Series Tip 12

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 12

    Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 10/1/2017

    For many, the word “need” is associated with lack, neediness, and scarcity. These associations are the opposite of the meaning of needs in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In NVC, needs are the motivational energy of our innate wholeness and desire to grow, like the energy of a plant pushing it up through the soil and toward the sun.

  9. Parenting for Connection

    Parenting for Connection

    Eddie Zacapa

    Articles · 5 - 7 minutes · 10/5/2023

    By guessing our child's feelings and needs we open the door to understanding what's behind their behavior, and can better suggest solutions that meet both their and our own needs. In this way we build trust and their desire to seek us out in times of need. Expressing our own feelings and needs also allows us to help them understand the value in fulfilling tasks or requests.

  10. The Cause of Our Feelings

    The Cause of Our Feelings

    John Kinyon, Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: “I would love some clarity about the NVC perspective on the cause of our feelings. It seems to me that my needs may be met or not, but the cause of my painful feelings is my story around the situation.”

  11. Myths Of Power With

    Myths Of Power With

    Everyone Can Be Included

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 7 - 12 minutes · 7/13/2023

    Total inclusion is impossible: inclusion of all can often lead to exclusion of those who can't bear the behaviors of some. Many groups flounder and disintegrate because of too much inclusion. Limited resources and capacities may make it necessary to exclude. Keeping more coherent shared values and strategies may be another reason to place membership conditions so that what appears to be exclusion may give movements a chance to expand.

  12. Going Deep

    Going Deep

    Understanding Your Own and Others’ Deeper Motivations

    Alan Rafael Seid

    Practice Exercises · N/A · 9/22/2016

    One of the premises in NVC is that behind all behavior and expressions are Universal Human Needs as the deeper motivators. And one of the key distinctions in NVC is that between Needs and Strategies. Try Alan Seid's exercise called  "Peeling the Layers of the Onion, " a process for uncovering these needs — the deeper motivations — that underlie words and behaviors we may find disturbing or puzzling.

  13. Tips for the Road Series Tip 13

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 13

    The Eight Most Powerful Things You Can Do to Build an Inspiring Relationship

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 4 - 6 minutes · 10/15/2017

    What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I answered the question with romantic relationships in mind; however, I believe the answer below applies to all important relationships.

  14. Self-Empathy Regulation Process

    Self-Empathy Regulation Process

    Eric Bowers

    Practice Exercises · 30 minutes · 8/10/2021

    Building your body and mind awareness can help you better regulate/calm your emotions.  Regular self-empathy will help you better regulate your emotions as well as increase your body and mind awareness.  If you are not aware of amygdala activation (fight/flight/freeze response), you will react instead of responding with choice. Use this eight-step process to develop your self-empathy/regulation skills.

  15. NVC as Spiritual Practice

    NVC as Spiritual Practice

    Transcendence, Transformation & Self (4 Session Course)

    John Kinyon, Newt Bailey

    Multi-session Course · 6 - 8 hours · 11/27/2017

    This 4 session telecourse recording offers practices while exploring the relationship between the core elements of NVC and universal spiritual principles.

  16. Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life

    Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life

    (6 Session Course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 6 hours, 2 minutes · 9/15/2018

    We invite you to dive into this voyage, where you and Robert will swim ever deeper into the Spiral of Life, coming face-to-face with your divine Life Force – that essential living energy that permeates all.

  17. Integration of Inner and Outer

    Integration of Inner and Outer

    Our Relationship to ALL of Life (5 Session Course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 6 - 9 hours · 4/6/2019

    During this course, you'll deeply examine this process of blending and integrating your inner and outer selves. Not only will you explore various states of being, such as defensive / protective and being / essence, you'll delve into the primary levels of relationship: to others, to the world and to life,  acquire tools for transforming resistance into unconditional acceptance, and much more.

  18. Embodying Compassion Exercise

    Embodying Compassion Exercise

    Robert Gonzales

    Practice Exercises · 30 minutes · 9/5/2021

    Grow your compassionate presence with this 3-process exercise. The processes include: Connecting to and feeling the Life Impulse meditation, Creating your own inner space of compassionate presence exercise, and the Compassionately Embracing visualization. These processes will guide you toward deeper self connection and compassionate presence.

  19. Living the Self-in-Life

    Living the Self-in-Life

    Robert Gonzales

    Downloadable Courses · ·

    • Deepen your capacity for self-acceptance and self-compassion
    • Bring greater compassion to your relationships
    • Increase your capacity for vulnerability and mourning
    • Enhance your sense of trusting your own place in life, as well as your purpose
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