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  1. CNVC Certified Trainer Lore Baur shares how, as a teacher, the classroom is a laboratory for learning NVC and incorporating the NVC consciousness into the classroom. Topics discussed include empathy, permission to educate, protective use of force, corrective action, choice & options and re-do.

  2. What Is NVC? Approaches to NVC

    What Is NVC? Approaches to NVC

    Inbal Kashtan, Miki Kashtan

    Learning Tools · 2 - 3 minutes · 12/1/2021

    Here's a table outlining eight ideas people have regarding what NVC "is". It provides columns for the principle, related needs and strategies of the NVC approach. You can add to the table your own ideas for NVC approaches. Included are five sets of reflection questions to explore what speaks to you, what would expand your range of options, what brings up discomfort, and more.
  3. Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal

    Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 1/4/2015

    Trainer Tip: We can improve our relationships by focusing our attention first on connection instead of other stragegies.

  4. The Needs Underneath a Need for “Fairness”

    The Needs Underneath a Need for “Fairness”

    Miki Kashtan

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

    Ask the Trainer: "I'm practicing with 'transforming the pain of unmet needs into the beauty of the need.' In identifying my unmet needs, I come up with 'fairness.' However, fairness isn't on the needs list! I'm wondering what needs might be underneath 'fairness.'"

  5. Meeting Our Need for Order

    Meeting Our Need for Order

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 11/23/2021

    Trainer Tip: Someone’s strategy for meeting needs may look different from yours, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t meeting them. This can happen when they appear to be messy and disorganized, but from their perspective they have it organized. It's just less apparent to you how they have organized it. Read on for a related anecdote.

  6. I Want to Leave When Facing Anger

    I Want to Leave When Facing Anger

    Arnina Kashtan

    Video · 4 minutes · 12/12/2021

    Receiving anger from another can be a reactive trigger for many of us. In this brief segment, Arnina provides us a strategy for staying in the conversation instead of physically leaving.

  7. The Top Five Deal Breakers in Relationships

    The Top Five Deal Breakers in Relationships

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 3/15/2020

    Trainer Tip: When considering your "deal breakers" consider what you want from a relationship rather than how it will look. For instance, maybe my need for abundance can be met by someone who is independently wealthy, so he doesn’t have to “have a good job”. When you shift your focus from strategies to needs, you may be pleasantly surprised what the universe brings. Read on for more.

  8. Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

    Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

    Inbal Kashtan, Miki Kashtan

    Learning Tools · 8 - 10 minutesd · 7/29/2010

    NVC practice is based on several key assumptions and intentions. When we live based on these assumptions and intentions, self-connection and connection with others become increasingly possible and easy, helping us contribute to a world where everyone’s needs are attended to peacefully.
  9. Conflict Resolution

    Conflict Resolution

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 8/18/2023

    Trainer Tip: When there is conflict, the chances are good that people are arguing over a particular strategy. When we focus on our needs, the opportunities for peaceful resolution that values everyone’s needs are much greater. This can also build trust. Be aware of opportunities to shift focus from strategies to needs. Read on for an example of how this can work.

  10. Living Without Enemies

    Living Without Enemies

    Arnina Kashtan

    Audio · 1 hour, 18 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you.

  11. Distinguishing Response from Reaction

    Distinguishing Response from Reaction

    Kathleen Macferran, Jared Finkelstein

    Trainer Tips · 10 - 15 minutes · 11/15/2021

    In this book excerpt, Kathleen and Jared offer a path to reach deeper clarity, distinguishing between response and reaction.

  12. Living NVC

    Living NVC

    NVC Academy

    Self-paced Courses · ·

    • Integrate the underlying principles of NVC into your daily life
    • Create a daily practice of self empathy and connecting to needs
    • Strengthen your own personalized set of NVC skills
    • Increase your sense of power in the world
    • Deepen connection with yourself and those in your life
  13. Shooting For The Moon

    Shooting For The Moon

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 4/19/2022

    Trainer Tip: In a Compassionate Communication process, we believe there are enough resources in the Universe to meet all of our needs. Most people are stumped because they can only see one strategy for meeting a need. Identify one need that you would like to experience more of and make a list of at least five strategies for meeting it today.

  14. How can Nonviolent Communication (NVC) create more constructive conversations in the workplace? This video explores the key difference between calling someone in and calling them out, emphasizing the power of care over annoyance.
  15. Join Sylvia and Jean in this fascinating exploration of NVC and the Enneagram, a system of nine basic personality types.

  16. Integrating NVC

    Integrating NVC

    (6 Session Course)

    Kathleen Macferran

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 9 hours · 9/5/2017

    Does NVC seem like a good idea, but not practical? Do you feel frustrated when you find yourself in the same jackal scenario repeatedly? Let beloved trainer Kathleen Macferran guide you toward integrating NVC into all aspects of your life.

  17. Ask the Trainer: For many years I have been using crime and punishment (reward and consequences) to discipline because it was the only thing I knew. I knew deep in my heart it was alienating me...

  18. Modeling Behaviors You’d Like to Receive

    Modeling Behaviors You’d Like to Receive

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Trainer Tip: The ways that we interact with our children shape the way they will interact in their world. How do your actions model compassion, tolerance, and love for your children?

  19. How is empathy in the workplace a professional skill? If you are ready to learn why and how empathy is the critical factor to more productivity, profitability and collaboration in the workplace, this recording is for you!

  20. The Heart of Conflict

    The Heart of Conflict

    (6 Session Course)

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Multi-session Course · 8 hour, 50 minutes · 7/18/2018

    Join CNVC Certified Trainers and Mediators Jori and Jim Manske in an exploration of using Nonviolent Communication in the context of Mediation and Conflict Resolution.

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