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    • Build bridges across significant differences of opinion
    • Become a powerful ally for the racial justice movement
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    • “Unlearn” what gets in the way of your birthright to genuinely live relationally
    • Discover the power your words have to change the course of your relationships
    • Change your view of conflict from being a problem to being a beautiful invitation
    • Learn how to apply the NVC process to a variety of situations
  2. Healing, Inside and Out

    Healing, Inside and Out

    Roxy Manning

    Peaceful Living Blog · ·

    Hello friends. I’m Roxy Manning. When Mary invited me to write this letter, I could not help but reflect on what has been most alive for me recently… the way many of us will easily help someone else, but fear to ask for help for ourselves. On December 4, I had an operation. My doctor predicted my recovery would take three weeks. As I prepared for the time off, I rushed to complete all of my work and personal commitments. I prepped and froze dishes so I would have things to eat after and arranged meal deliveries. Very few people knew I was having an operation and I reached out to only one person for support after. In hindsight, I was doing everything I could so...

  3. Every interaction with children contains messages about who they are, who we are, and what life is like. By engaging attachment parenting and NVC we give them rare gifts in society: to know their parents well, to discover the effects of their actions without being blamed for them, and to experience the power of contributing to meeting others' needs, and the power to move towards mutually satisfying outcomes.

  4. NVC Zen

    NVC Zen

    Aya Caspi

    Video · 8.5 minutes · 09/21/2022

    We each have the power to be the creator of our own inner experience, no matter what is going on externally. The moment you imply wrongness on others, you give power to them. In this excerpt, Aya Caspi shows that the more self-responsibility you take, the more freedom you will have.  

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

  6. 4 Steps to Effective Feedback

    4 Steps to Effective Feedback

    Dian Killian

    Trainer Tips · 3 Hours · 5/12/2014

    Join CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian to find out how to speak up in a way that ensures you're heard, even in challenging situations.

  7. 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
  8. Living In Joy

    Living In Joy

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 10/12/2022

    Trainer Tip: When faced with doing a task that doesn't seem fun try saying to yourself something to the effect of “I do this activity because I value...”. Complete the sentence with related needs, then ask yourself if you still want to complete the task. This can take the demand out of the tasks. Next, choose accordingly. This can teach you about, or give you more access to, true choice in life.

  9. Healing the Blame that Binds

    Healing the Blame that Binds

    Kelly Bryson

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

    Blame is the game that protects me from the understanding that the cause of all my emotional distress, fear, shame and guilt comes from the part of me I call "the inner voice." As long as I keep the big bony finger of blame pointed in your direction, I can remain unaware of the fact that it is what I am telling myself about your behavior that is stimulating my painful reactions. 

  10. 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).

  11. NVC and Social Change

    NVC and Social Change

    Alan Rafael Seid

    Audio · 1 hour, 24 minutes · 2/24/2012

    Listen to this telecourse recording with CNVC Certified Trainer, Alan Rafael Seid, to explore what is meant by social change in the context of NVC, and learn how Nonviolent Communication can be a powerful ally for creating social change.

  12. An Introduction to Self-Compassion

    An Introduction to Self-Compassion

    (10 Session Course)

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 11 hours, 12 minutes · 2/1/2017

    In this 10 session telecourse recording, world renowned CNVC Certified Trainer Robert Gonzales will help you discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence.

  13. Connecting Feelings and Needs

    Connecting Feelings and Needs

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 11/2/2014

    Trainer Tip: When we connect our feelings to our needs, we put ourselves in a postion to get our needs met and mourn when they aren't met. Here's a practical tip you can practice daily to improve the quality of your life.

  14. Tips for the Road Series Tip 9

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 9

    Make Poetry Out of Empathy

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 5/30/2017

    Nonviolent Communication includes a practice of empathy that involves listening for feelings and needs no matter how someone expresses themselves, and reflecting back the feelings and needs when it is helpful to do so. You can reflect back in a traditional NVC manner, or in a more creative way, with metaphors.

  15. Tips for the Road Series Tip 10

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 10

    Take It to the Trees

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 9/3/2017

    One of the most important things you can do to live a meaningful and rewarding life filled with vitality is reclaim your emotions. Eric offers a tip to reclaim your emotions, rescuing you from the numb and deadening state of “fine."

  16. Tips for the Road Series Tip 11

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 11

    Catching Hearts

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 9/17/2017

    When we take a leap in life and put our hearts out into the world in new or bigger ways—sharing a song, dance, or poem, writing a book, competing at a sporting event, giving a speech, and so on—there is greater potential for aliveness but also for shame and pain

  17. Clinical psychologist, Robert Gonzales, Ph.D., uses an open dialogue with a practitioner to explore effective, compassionate methods to handle a volatile counseling situation. This resource has been newly remastered to a larger, higher quality video.

  18. Marshall Rosenberg's Vision of Social Change

    Marshall Rosenberg's Vision of Social Change

    Rachelle Lamb

    Articles · 12 - 18 minutes · 1/20/2019

    What could be, more often than not, overlooked when we think about or represent NVC or Marshall Rosenberg's work?  This article busts some commonly held ideas and approaches to NVC.  It challenges us to widen the lens of what it really means to be "life-serving", or speaking and hearing the "language of life".  And it also speaks to how thinking can deepen feeling and relatedness...

  19. Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution

    Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution

    (6 Session Course)

    Kelly Bryson

    Multi-session Course · 7-10 hours · 3/9/2020

    Join Kelly Bryson and go Psychologically and Spiritually Spelunking into your own Caverns of Consciousness, using the inner mining tools of NVC Self-Empathy, Progoff Journaling processes, Focusing, and individual work. Get self-empathy tools that will help you rejuvenate yourself and your relationships.

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