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Experience a deep process of self-connection and meaningful self-discovery.

Awaken your soul force and live from compassion and clarity while grounded in human needs.

Learn to listen with presence and power and gain tools to transform conflict in any situation.

Facilitate with care and clarity, hear all voices and address power dynamics.

• 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

Uncover self-sabotage and release unconscious contracts through empathy and neuroscience.

• 3 full-length courses to deepen your empathy practice
• Learn your body’s “language” and how to listen deeply to it
• Quickly reconnect and return to empathic presence when you are triggered
• Enhance your listening skills and experience greater ease and joy in all your interactions

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

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.

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.

Discover your unique role in creating a world where everyone’s needs matter.

• Learn how to transform NVC into a tool for systemic awareness and healing
• Examine the influence of difference, and uncover pathways that strengthen its capacity
• Learn to receive and offer feedback on impact in situations fraught with power differences
• Explore specific ways in which NVC systemically supports the full flowering of humanity
• Delve into the dynamics of cultural differences, and discover how NVC can systemically contribute to a liberation perspective

An interviewer shares his reaction to the term Nonviolent Communication after a workshop.

Bring Buddhist principles to life through NVC and rediscover aliveness and mindful presence.

• Easier and steadier access to presence, awareness and self-connection in relationships and challenging situations 
• Illumination of basic Buddhist and NVC principles 
• A deeper understanding of how to live the Buddhist precepts of non-harming, mindful speech and deep listening 
• An introduction to useful tools for families and communities to create a culture of Nonviolent Communication

NVC trainers discuss intrinsic needs in addiction and its alignment with 12-step programs.

Miki speaks to peace activists about connecting with the life vision in those who stimulate pain.

Ask the Trainer: Get ideas to help your girlfriend accept you aren't responsible for her feelings.

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