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Trainer Tip: One of the swiftest ways to close our hearts is having judgmental thinking or looking to get our way. How open are you when you're in this mode? The goal in peaceful living is to approach our relationships with an open heart. Start conversations today with an intention to connect with other people.

Veteran Trainer Sylvia Haskvitz reviews the key distinctions/differentiations in NVC.

Rita Herzog shares how to stay true to your needs while extending empathy in family relationships.

Trainer Tip: Control is a strategy, not a need, often confused as the reason for someone's actions.

Miki Kashtan helps you move past fear and build skill in making clear, confident requests.

Miki Kashtan shows how translating judgments into needs transforms family conflict and connection.

Understand what drives children’s behavior and why their actions may feel annoying to parents.

Kathleen Macferran guides you to bring NVC into daily life and break old patterns.

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

Kelly Bryson explores courageous honesty and how truth shared openly deepens connection.

Listen to this audio to learn the value of focusing on needs in an NVC model, either for the first time or as a refresher course. Living from a needs-consciousness creates abundance, clarity and choice. Using three examples from participants, Mary guides the group towards identifying and then connecting with the needs of both parties involved in each situation. It becomes clear very quickly that people choose different ways to support their needs; and many times they have the same needs in a given situation. When we understand this, we are able to create peace in our relationships and negotiations.

“Everything someone does or says is an attempt to meet a need,” says CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie. This simple statement is a foundational understanding in Nonviolent Communication; once you gain skills at living in a “needs-consciousness” you will literally change your life and your perception of the world, and improve all of your relationships.

Discover a simpler way to ask “Would you tell me what you heard me say?” in NVC.

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

Explore Self-Empathy with a unique four-step process ending in gratitude.

Learn how your inner relationship forms the basis for Focusing and NVC.

Explore the similarities and differences between NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing.

Please join veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Robert Gonzales, to explore how you can embody the consciousness of NVC and live every moment of every day in the fullness of compassion - for yourself and others.