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  1. Different Types of Requests

    Different Types of Requests

    Miki Kashtan

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

    Ask the Trainer: Share a list of request types, examples, and a strategy for formulating them.

  2. Group Feedback

    Group Feedback

    Sylvia Haskvitz

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Ask the Trainer: Guidance for NVC groups on when and how to make requests, especially negative ones.

  3. Speaking Classical Giraffe

    Speaking Classical Giraffe

    Jeff Brown

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring how to keep NVC natural and authentic without sounding mechanical or formal.

  4. Practice, Practice, Practice

    Practice, Practice, Practice

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 10/30/2021

    Trainer Tip: Practicing NVC in situations that are not emotionally charged can give you valuable practice to help you maintain a compassionate consciousness when circumstances are charged. It can help you stay in that consciousness for a longer period of time. You can also practice by naming the needs that you got met in the situations you enjoy.

  5. The Value of Change

    The Value of Change

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 12/29/2021

    Trainer Tip: Wanting collaboration? Show you value the other person's needs as much as your own. After you both feel heard, you can make joint decisions about specifics of the agreement, such as "division of work", "scope of project", "when the action will take place", "how it'll be done" and "timing of follow up to see how things went". Read on for an example of how this is applied to asking someone to pitch in with doing chores.

  6. Taking Responsibility for Meeting Our Needs

    Taking Responsibility for Meeting Our Needs

    Eddie Zacapa

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 1/3/2021

    This trainer tip suggests ways to transform blame in to personal power. He suggests having multiple sources of support and multiple pathways to achieving the outcome you want, to allow more room to hear a "no". Read on for more.

  7. Making Your Empathy Guesses More Natural

    Making Your Empathy Guesses More Natural

    Mary Mackenzie

    Video · 3 minutes · 09/25/2023

    Join Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC trainer, as she offers ways to incorporate NVC empathy guesses, feelings and needs into everyday conversations. This approach is geared towards adding deeper connection to the natural flow of conversations. The technique has become known as Street Giraffe.

  8. Sharing NVC With Others

    Sharing NVC With Others

    Miki Kashtan

    Audio · 1 hour, 20 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Interactive dialogue addresses common questions for new NVC facilitators and trainers.

  9. Confidentiality Agreement

    Confidentiality Agreement

    Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 4 - 6 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: Is a confidentiality agreement typically used in NVC practice groups?

  10. Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

    Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

    Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring how to share NVC in a school environment where others may not yet understand its value.

  11. The Cause of Our Feelings

    The Cause of Our Feelings

    John Kinyon, Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring how stories and unmet needs each influence the cause of our feelings in NVC.

  12. How to Handle Being Judged

    How to Handle Being Judged

    Sylvia Haskvitz

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 7/29/2010

    Ask the Trainer: Dealing with judgments about you when the speaker's true unmet need is hidden.

  13. Connecting With Your Husband

    Connecting With Your Husband

    Godfrey Spencer

    Trainer Tips · 7 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: My question is about wanting to empathize more with my husband. Sometimes we connect very deeply, other times he slips back into "jackal talk..."

  14. 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...

  15. Embracing Jackal Thoughts

    Embracing Jackal Thoughts

    Liv Larsson, Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 3/16/2011

    Ask the Trainer: "In trainings I say our jackals are thoughts and now I've come to wonder if all thoughts are jackals...?"

  16. Relating to the Value of Things Rather Than the Cost

    Relating to the Value of Things Rather Than the Cost

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/19/2014

    Trainer Tip: The exchange of resources, that is, exchanging money for an item or service, is enhanced and better appreciated when we are connected to its personal value rather than its cost.

  17. Two-Way Street Empathy and Honesty

    Two-Way Street Empathy and Honesty

    Liv Larsson

    Trainer Tips · 4 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring how empathy and honesty work together as essential parts of NVC practice.

  18. How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends

    How to Use NVC with Talkative Friends

    Liv Larsson

    Trainer Tips · 21 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Exploring how to stay connected with yourself and others when conversations feel too wordy.

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