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  1. Connecting to Humanity

    Connecting to Humanity

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/2/2015

    Trainer Tip: We can expand our connection to humanity by considering the many strategies people use to meet our common needs.

  2. Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

    Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

    Roxy Manning

    Articles · 6 - 9 minutes · 12/15/2018

    When we have few external resources (money, time, health connections, etc), we can still empower ourselves and one another.  We can strengthen our internal resources, inspire people to join our cause, build solidarity, and influence others who have external resources to support us and our causes.

  3. There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Strategy

    There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Strategy

    Jim Manske

    Articles · 3 - 5 minutes · 12/2/2018

    In the face of needs that are still hungry to be satisfied, we can expand our view, plus generate ideas and creativity that can find new paths forward.  Try these tips to transform our complaint into commitment for a change in strategy that works with needs...

  4. 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.

  5. Financial Freedom and Integrity

    Financial Freedom and Integrity

    (8 Session Course)

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Multi-session Course · 7 hours, 32 minutes · 9/4/2017

    Jim and Jori Manske went from poverty to financial independence in 8 years, and they’re making the process they used available to you! Please join them in this inspiring 8-session program to transform your relationship with money, scarcity and abundance.

  6. Making A Connection In A Difficult Situation

    Making A Connection In A Difficult Situation

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/17/2022

    Trainer Tip: Whether there is the potential of physical or emotional violence, listening deeply to the underlying needs of the people in conflict can be swift, direct, and healing. Look for opportunities to defuse conflicts by reflecting the feelings and needs of the other person.

  7. NVC Conference

    NVC Conference

    17 Trainers

    Live Zoom Course · ·

    • Uncover the expansive possibilities of Nonviolent Communication in growing compassion for a more empathic world
    • Engage with 17 global trainers on 17+ unique topics
    • Connect with an international audience from novices to experts
    • Immerse yourself in a festival of learning, fun, and community
  8. 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.

  9. Life-Alienating Communication

    Life-Alienating Communication

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 1/6/2021

    Trainer tip: Be aware of times when you are judging others, demanding, making comparisons, or denying responsibility for your actions. Notice how these communication patterns affect your connection with other people.

  10. Naturalizing NVC Language

    Naturalizing NVC Language

    (7 Session Course)

    Miki Kashtan

    Audio · 8 - 10 hours · 11/15/2022

    Learn to speak NVC using your own voice and increase ease and flow in all your personal and professional conversations. This 7-session telecourse recording with renowned trainer Miki Kashtan is designed to help you integrate NVC into all aspects of your life by gaining fluency in your practice of NVC and by embodying the principles regardless of the words you use. This course is based on intensive practice and coaching with real-life examples from participants’ lives.

  11. Facing Life as One

    Facing Life as One

    Miki Kashtan

    Live Zoom Course · ·

    • Learn concrete tools for engaging with others as you embrace individual and collective liberation
    • Find your own source of choice even in the face of challenges
    • Release the constriction of scarcity
    • Find an empowered option to respond to what is happening in our world
    • Open the door to the possibility of thriving rather than merely surviving
  12. What the World Needs

    What the World Needs

    Inbal Kashtan

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 7/28/2010

    In this written transcript of a live presentation, Inbal Kashtan shares how she first became aware of poverty. She explains how empathy is a vital and powerful force for creating peace in our world today, and a powerful means of creating a world that works for all of us.

  13. Less than 2 weeks ago from the time I’m writing this letter, Hamas militants crossed from Gaza into Israel and killed more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians. Israel then retaliated and killed over 3,000 Gazans, most of them civilians. The death rate continues to increase every day.  
  14. Prepare for Love

    Prepare for Love

    (12 Session Course)

    Eric Bowers

    Multi-session Course · 9 hours, 7 minutes · 4/14/2017

    Join Eric Bowers in transforming past relationship pain, coming alive in community and creating thriving relationships. This 12 session Telecourse recording brings together Eric's passions for Nonviolent Communication, Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

  15. Greetings dear readers of the Growing Roots Newsletter! Mary Mackenzie invited me to be a guest writer for this issue to which I happily agreed. She also shared that her messages are typically more personal in nature, something I always appreciate in a newsletter. The challenge for me then is to...
  16. What’s Important to You?

    What’s Important to You?

    Penny Wassman

    Practice Exercises · 2 pages · 7/29/2010

    This exercise is most often the first activity in a beginning level workshop after the usual logistics/history/check-in. Penny Wassman experiences it as an opportunity for people to build connection with one another.

  17. Noticing What Is Important

    Noticing What Is Important

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 6/10/2019

    Trainer Tip: Where do you focus most of your life? Are there areas that you could reassess? Are you happy? Engage a new paradigm shift in your life.

  18. The Value of Change

    The Value of Change

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 12/29/2021

    Trainer Tip: Wanting collaboration? Show you value the other person's needs as much as your own. After you both feel heard, you can make joint decisions about specifics of the agreement, such as "division of work", "scope of project", "when the action will take place", "how it'll be done" and "timing of follow up to see how things went". Read on for an example of how this is applied to asking someone to pitch in with doing chores.

  19. Sometimes I Can’t Get Past My Judgments

    Sometimes I Can’t Get Past My Judgments

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 8/4/2022

    Trainer Tip: Whether we listen to our own or the other person’s needs first, connecting to needs can help us release judgments of others, see their humanness, help us to begin to hear them and ultimately connect to them. Be aware today of times when you are judging someone. Then be aware of your own needs to improve your connection to them.

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