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  1. Mourning Our Losses

    Mourning Our Losses

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/25/2016

    Trainer Tip: Mourning enables us to heal the pain and gain clarity about how to meet our needs in the present moment.

  2. Defusing Anger

    Defusing Anger

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 1/25/2018

    Trainer Tip: Many of us are afraid of our anger because we haven’t learned how to express it in a way that brings relief or that helps us meet our needs in the situation. Consider a different approach to anger, one that helps you fully express your anger and is more likely to help you meet your needs for relief, to be heard, or to be understood.

  3. Perceiving Reality

    Perceiving Reality

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 9/12/2019

    Trainer Tip: When we try to make another person fit into a reality that we prefer in order to meet our own needs everyone suffers. Instead, bring your focus back to yourself. Notice which of your needs are met or unmet when you spend time with someone. Don’t judge them; just focus on your feelings and needs. Then, decide whether continuing the relationship will meet them.

  4. A Focus on Needs

    A Focus on Needs

    Mary Mackenzie

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

    There are endless ways to meet our needs. Conflict occurs when we argue over strategies. When we actively value everyone’s needs, we foster openness and deeper connection in our relationships. Today look for opportunities to focus on needs in order to resolve an issue with at least one person.

  5. Letting People Support Us

    Letting People Support Us

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 10/3/2021

    We all love to contribute to others’ lives. We love to offer support because it meets our own needs for contribution, love, caring, and making a difference. For today, admit that you love to support other people, and that you would like support yourself. Let at least one person contribute to your life today. Read on for a related story.

  6. The Book of Love

    The Book of Love

    Bringing You Closer to Your Lover

    Shantigarbha Warren

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

    Trainer Tip: Could you tell me something I do that meets your need for love?

  7. How Do I Love Those Who Hate Me?

    How Do I Love Those Who Hate Me?

    Roxy Manning

    Articles · 6 - 9 minutes · 5/8/2019

    There are times when someone judges us, or meets us with prejudice, and its easier for us to respond by hating them, or judging ourselves as not good enough. How can we love another person instead without excusing their actions? Roxy tells us her story with wonderment, grief and mourning.

  8. Getting Your Needs Met

    Getting Your Needs Met

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 9/6/2021

    We can ask for what we want but if we repeatedly don’t get it from one source, it's our responsibility to find a new way to get it. We don’t honor our relationships when we insist that people who are unavailable or unwilling to support us meet our needs. Read on for related a parable about a woman persistently asking to get milk from a hardware store.

  9. How Anger Can Help or Hinder

    How Anger Can Help or Hinder

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 2 - 3 minutes · 9/25/2023

    We can use anger as an important signal to let us know that we perceive a threat to a universal need or value, directing our attention to something so that we can take effective action, and avoid harmful thought patterns. For example, instead of dwelling on a "should," focus on addressing unmet needs through boundaries and effective communication.

  10. Positive Relationships in Parenting

    Positive Relationships in Parenting

    Roxy Manning

    Video · 7 minutes · 9/5/2024

    Roxy Manning emphasizes positive relationships in parenting, highlighting acceptance, understanding, and compromise. She stresses the importance of being aware of one's needs, attuning to the other person's needs, fostering trust, and encouraging open communication, especially with children. The approach involves a balance between meeting both sets of needs for a healthier dynamic.

  11. Four Types of Feedback

    Four Types of Feedback

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 7/28/2010

    An exploration of four types of feedback: destructive criticism, constructive criticism, feedback by demonstration and dialogue.

  12. NVC as a Strategy

    NVC as a Strategy

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/26/2014

    Trainer Tip: Mary explains how Nonviolent Communication, a process that distinguishes needs from strategies is also itself, a strategy.

  13. Living Autonomously

    Living Autonomously

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/8/2023

    Trainer Tip: Autonomy is not a need, but rather a way of living. We always have choices in life, even if none of them appeal to us. Becoming aware of our choices and taking responsibility for them leads to greater joy and empowerment.

  14. Conflict Resolution

    Conflict Resolution

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 8/18/2023

    Trainer Tip: When there is conflict, the chances are good that people are arguing over a particular strategy. When we focus on our needs, the opportunities for peaceful resolution that values everyone’s needs are much greater. This can also build trust. Be aware of opportunities to shift focus from strategies to needs. Read on for an example of how this can work.

  15. Principle Based Teaching

    Principle Based Teaching

    (6 Session Course)

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 10 hours · 1/17/2018

    The focus of this 6-session class is on shifting the intention of your teaching from how to why while embodying the principles and practice of NVC every step of the way - from planning to delivery. The methodology Miki offers is to start with understanding what the people in your audience face in their environment, continue with what they might want to learn and how NVC principles can provide them with what they want, and end with how you can frame the principles in a language and context that speak to your audience’s familiar experience. 

  16. Principle-Based Teaching

    Principle-Based Teaching

    Miki Kashtan

    Downloadable Courses · ·

    Bring your teaching of NVC to a new level in these intensive course recordings that focus on shifting the intention of your teaching from how to why while embodying the principles and practice of NVC every step of the way - from planning to delivery.

  17. John and Stephanie combine mediating conflict, parenting and study of brain science to this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace.

  18. Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

    Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/16/2015

    Trainer Tip: Sometimes the best way to get our need me is to first connect with the needs of another.

  19. Creating Your Experience

    Creating Your Experience

    Mary Mackenzie

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

    Trainer Tip: Only after we connect to our unmet need can we make sound decisions that will transform our experience. For example, if you feel bored, connect to your unmet needs (eg. need for understanding the relevance, etc) and then look for strategies that will meet them (eg. ask the speaker how this topic relates to our lives).

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