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  1. Empathy Bundle

    Empathy Bundle

    Dian Killian, John Kinyon, Mary Mackenzie

    Downloadable Courses · ·

    • 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
  2. 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.
  3. Cause of Feelings

    Cause of Feelings

    Sylvia Haskvitz

    Audio · 13 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Sylvia teaches emotion management, connecting feelings to needs, and "Screaming in Giraffe."

  4. Use of “To Be” Verbs

    Use of “To Be” Verbs

    John Kinyon

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring why “to be” verbs like heard or valued are seen as strategies, not needs, in NVC.

  5. Empathy guessing when I was new to NVC seemed magical and mysterious. How could that other person have known that about me? And seen inside me — often in ways I'd missed myself. While empathy is both intuitive and an art, there is also a science to it. In this brief yet fascinating introduction to Dian's course, Empathy  Hacking, you'll learn a super-practical way to demystify empathy guessing by making use of the root meaning of words.

  6. Shifting the Way We Do Things

    Shifting the Way We Do Things

    Bob Wentworth

    Articles · 3 - 5 minutes · 11/10/2020

    The way we talk to one another, and think about or react to our lives, may seem "normal" but eventually, this may reach a point where we realize something isn't working, and we make adjustments. But often the suffering continues if we aren't addressing root causes. In studying NVC we can become more aware of what we are doing and its effects -- plus imagine and implement alternatives that lead to greater fulfillment for self and others.

  7. Transforming Society Through Organizations

    Transforming Society Through Organizations

    Dian Killian

    Articles · 6 - 9 minutes · 09/18/2021

    When we apply and practice NVC over a number of months in an organization, it can create group norms that make learning go deep faster. These new norms can impact people's interactions with others both inside and outside of work. From here, there's potential for people to start seeing value when they share these skills and experiences. This may create a ripple effect of interest in applying NVC across different domains in life.

  8. Conflict Evolution Policy

    Conflict Evolution Policy

    Jim Manske

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 3/12/2023

    This document is for organizations that want to integrate NVC. The intention is to use conflict as a stimulus to personal growth, more open and honest relationships, and life-affirming change. It mentions using NVC skills such as self connection, empathy, honesty, and requests (and protective use of force as last resort) to navigate the conflict with an intention of connection.

  9. 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.
  10. 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.
    • Move beyond anger, blame and judgment… 
    • Make sense of the baffling or offensive people in your life… 
    • Deepen your compassion for yourself and others… and
    • Transform your old thought and speaking patterns into new ones that inspire harmony and fun!
  11. Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

    Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

    Inbal Kashtan

    Articles · 16 - 24 minutes · 4/23/2019

    This article aims to discuss shifting fully from power-over to sharing power in families; turning power struggles into dilemmas.  It focuses on the topic of living in a partnership paradigm as a family...

  12. True inner freedom arises from self-connection. Without self-connection, we're mostly acting from habits, and those habits do not necessarily attend to our own needs. Here's a practice you can explore in your daily life to deepen your relationship with yourself, and experience true choice and inner freedom.

  13. Taking on the World

    Taking on the World

    How to Become a Change Agent (12 Session Course)

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 14 - 18 hours · 3/1/2021

    Are you eager to translate your vision of a world where everyone’s needs matter into a tangible reality? Do you long to discover your unique role in responding to the challenges of our times? If, so join Miki for 12 sessions that will propel you on your way!

  14. The Art of Mourning

    The Art of Mourning

    Yoram Mosenzon

    Live Zoom Course · ·

    • Welcome unpleasant feelings and meet their flow in and around the body
    • Discover how you can enjoy Anger as a beautiful life force
    • Realize insecurity and depression as a door to the core of your humanity
    • Know how to use fear to firmly connect to your life and strength
    • Learn how to use empathy to dissolve conflict
    • Deepen your NVC skills to help let go of judgments
    • Explore approaches for asking for what you want
    • Listen to the conflict within yourself
  15. Looking at “Shoulds”

    Looking at “Shoulds”

    Sylvia Haskvitz

    Audio · 22 minutes · 4/22/2024

    Learn how clarifying the needs behind ‘shoulds’ can ease conflict, grief, and family challenges.
  16. The Power of Silent Empathy

    The Power of Silent Empathy

    Rita Herzog

    Articles · 1 page · 7/29/2010

    Rita learns the power of silent empathy while visiting her daughter and offering unsolicited advice.

  17. Truth as an Act of Love

    Truth as an Act of Love

    Kelly Bryson

    Audio · 2 hours, 14 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Explore what blocks us from speaking truth and how honesty builds trust and growth.

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