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Bring NVC beyond personal growth, explore perspectives that transform how we respond to crisis.

Trainer Tip: Mary explains the NVC principle known as the "protective use of force."

• Discover what is yours to do in response to our growing global crises
• Weave nonviolence more deeply into how you live and lead
• Receive ongoing support within and beyond the course in how to be effective and alive while doing what’s yours to do
• 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

Develop resilience and stay present amidst challenge by tapping into the living energy of needs.

Learn quick self-empathy techniques to notice your sensations, feelings, and needs.

Ask the Trainer: Feeling frustrated & angry over simple things? Find the root of your hidden needs.

Kelly Bryson shows how clear intention and awareness transform pain into growth.

A 1999 discussion with youth on understanding and working with anger.

Some of my core beliefs make experiencing gratitude difficult . For example, it’s difficult to celebrate others or myself when I think I have to prove my worth in order to be accepted. So much energy goes into proving myself, there’s little left for celebration.

Explore gratitude with Jori & Jim Manske to stay present and flourish in everyday life.

Discover deeper self-acceptance, unlocking emotional healing and spiritual presence.

Use NVC and mediation tools to transform conflict into authentic connection.

Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices.

Differing worldviews can lead to conflict, discover pathways to greater understanding.

Please join us as we remember the work and life of Inbal Kashtan. She offered this parenting Q&A session in NVC Academy's 2013 Parenting Conference.

This is an opportunity to explore/transform a limiting belief you have about yourself using what science is discovering about neurobiology. A limiting belief is simply an idea or thought we have about ourselves/life that we or others have affirmed over and over again – these ideas usually get in the way of living life fully.

Jim and Jori Manske share strategies for employing gratitude to create more joy in life, jettisoning the fear of asking for what you want, and welcoming feedback no matter how it is delivered.

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.

One of the premises in NVC is that behind all behavior and expressions are Universal Human Needs as the deeper motivators. And one of the key distinctions in NVC is that between Needs and Strategies. Try Alan Rafael Seid's exercise called  "Peeling the Layers of the Onion, " a process for uncovering these needs — the deeper motivations — that underlie words and behaviors we may find disturbing or puzzling.