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  1. NVC Gratitude Practice

    NVC Gratitude Practice

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Video · 17 min 21 sec · 11/20/2024

    Join certified CNVC trainers Jim and Jori Manske to explore the relationship between gratitude and Nonviolent Communication as a way to learn and practice NVC.

  2. Developing a Needs Consciousness

    Developing a Needs Consciousness

    Mary Mackenzie

    Video · 2 minutes · 03/20/2025

    Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful—and challenging—aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consciousness and transform how you experience your world and relationships.
  3. Are you looking to deepen your connection to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and build powerful empathy skills? In this short video, Mary Mackenzie shares how finding an empathy buddy transformed her life and practice.
  4. In this moving reflection, Rachelle Lamb honors Marshall Rosenberg’s true vision for Nonviolent Communication—not just as a tool for personal transformation, but as a catalyst for deep social change. She reminds us that inner work alone is not enough in a world facing ecological collapse, rising suicide rates, and widespread displacement.
  5. Fear of Negative Consequences

    Fear of Negative Consequences

    Miki Kashtan

    Audio · 8 minutes · 5/12/2015

    Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible, and that nonviolence is a powerful alternative to our habitual Fight, Flight, Freeze responses.

    • Discover what is yours to do in response to our global crises
    • Weave nonviolence more deeply into how you live and lead
    • Receive ongoing support in how to be effective and alive while pursuing your highest goals
    • Increase your capacity to face and mourn current reality as a source of greater choice and energy
    • Be a part of transforming the legacy of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness into a livable future
  6. Living Compassion in Challenging Times

    Living Compassion in Challenging Times

    (6 Session Course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 9 hours · 04/19/2023

    Self-compassion is essential for healing trauma and restoring your wholeness. It is also an antidote to reactivity and separation, allowing presence to emerge.

    In developing presence, you can become what the world needs most in these times of intensity and chaos. This work can strengthen your skills to be more fully in relationship with all that life offers while allowing your heart to be moved by what is alive in you and with others

  7. 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.

  8. How to Interact with an Angry Practice Group Member

    How to Interact with an Angry Practice Group Member

    Liv Larsson

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

    Ask the Trainer: “I would like some suggestions on how to interact with a member of the practice group I started. This individual speaks and acts in a manner I interpret as angry and controlling.”

  9. Needs Analysis—an Activity to Uncover Your Strategies

    Needs Analysis—an Activity to Uncover Your Strategies

    Mary Mackenzie

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

    Trainer Tip: Find your deepest need. Then notice when you do things, or have done things, that keep you from meeting your most important need. And then take conscious action that is in alignment with the need you want to meet.

    • Reclaim the lost voices of your ancestors
    • Understand the impact of collective trauma on your family line
    • Open yourself up to have more warmth for yourself and your children
    • Restore the flow of love and energy from past generations
  10. 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.

  11. Falling in Love with Myself Again

    Falling in Love with Myself Again

    (6 session course)

    Arnina Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 12 - 13 hours · 9/16/2024

    Come fall in love with yourself again…

    In this course recording, facilitated by Arnina Kashtan, you will discover your ability to...

    • Simply love yourself…
    • Live fully and express your greatness in the world… and
    • Shorten the way to realizing your true self!

    Arnina will share with you the deepest process of self-connection and meaningful discovery. You will learn how to listen to your innermost self, discover how to lead a life that is much more than anything you have ever dreamed of, and fall in love with yourself all over again!

  12. Living the Self-in-Life

    Living the Self-in-Life

    (6 session course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 8 hours · 1/10/2025

    Come. Let us journey together into our own authentic Life force: the essential living energy that permeates all of our lives.

    Your journey will begin at the center: with the divine / life force, or soul force.

    Robert Gonzales shares how this fundamental life energy is the tender expression of your inner being, or soul. It unfolds through the heart as your deepest longings, which manifest themselves in all forms of human needs and values. When you live from the energies of compassion, creativity, love, and clarity – while remaining wholly grounded and aware of needs and values – then you are living your passion… You are living the Self-In-Life.

  13. Letting Go and Being Free

    Letting Go and Being Free

    Robert Gonzales

    Downloadable Courses · ·

    • Focus on living from the inside out
    • Bring a field of inner kindness to your inner distress
    • Attend to your inner experience with compassion
    • Cultivate an inner spaciousness of freedom
  14. In this 6-session course Sarah Peyton will take you through the 5 levels of unconscious contracts that can create patterns of self-sabotage and self-defeat. Each session introduces a different unconscious contract based on various aspects of relational neuroscience and provides support for the release of these contracts. 

    Sarah Peyton shows you how, with deep empathy, self-accompaniment, and an understanding of neuroscience, you can free yourself from your original constraints. 

    It can be bewildering to be human.

    We can make so many choices that are not good for us. Why do we persist in habits, incapacities or self-judgments that are harmful to our long-term well-being? 

    The answer to this question is surprising – it is usually either love – or - paradoxically, survival!

    Love is at the root of self-sabotage.

    Though we often aren't aware of it, our nervous systems are essentially still paired with our earliest caregivers and often related to how we responded as a child. Our first interactions shape us in ways that can limit our life energy.

  15. This handout defines and contrasts "empathy" alongside "responses may meet needs, but are not empathy" (such as advice, correcting, consoling, etc).

  16. Empathic Attuned Listening Practices

    Empathic Attuned Listening Practices

    Kathy Simon

    Video · 15 minutes · 9/25/2024

    Being heard is a core human need. But what if you don't like what the other person is saying: how do you hold onto your awareness of their humanity? Find out in this demonstration from Kathy Simon's course, Connect Across Differences.

  17. Resistance

    Resistance

    John Kinyon

    Articles · 6 - 9 minutes · 2/16/2023

    There are many polarizing issues we can resist and fight over. The word "resistance" can mean fighting against what we don’t agree with in counterproductive ways. It can also be the illusion and futility of mentally fighting against reality of 'what is'. But acceptance, non-resistance, of what is doesn’t mean powerless resignation. Another way to resist is to accept and love whole-heartedly, with empathy and care for the people doing the things we are resisting.

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