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  1. Setting Goals for the New Year

    Setting Goals for the New Year

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 1/10/2020

    Trainer Tip: What are your goals, hopes and dreams? For greater success it’s important to make your goals concrete, specific, and focused on what do you want (rather than what you don't want).

  2. Communicating with Children

    Communicating with Children

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 10/8/2020

    Trainer tip: Empathy can offer profound learning opportunities to children, expand their feelings and needs vocabulary, and teach them the positive results of valuing everyone’s needs. Read on for a story that illustrates this.

  3. Communicating With People Who Don’t Share Our Values

    Communicating With People Who Don’t Share Our Values

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 2/25/2023

    Trainer Tip: Even when it's tempting to coerce or match might with might, we can strive to meet our needs without negatively affecting others. Instead of convincing anyone to do it our way or to value the same things we value, we can focus on what we value: compassion among people and valuing everyone’s needs. By doing this we are actually more likely to meet our own needs and we are better able to live peacefully.

  4. The Four D's of Disconnection

    The Four D's of Disconnection

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Learning Tools · 5 -7 minutes · 10/12/2014

    Learn to recognize four forms of thinking and speaking that are likely to lead to disconnection.
  5. Last year, I planted my vegetable garden in February. It was an enormous amount of work to get it ready. This year, we decided to move the garden farther away from trees (to avoid the ongoing tree root issue and allow more sun). So, we created 4 new beds. Now, they are ready to be planted, and yet… forward momentum has stalled.
  6. Uncertainty, Human Limitations, and Acceptance

    Uncertainty, Human Limitations, and Acceptance

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 7 - 10 minutes · 3/11/2024

    So many of us have a habitual response of trying to eliminate uncertainty and the arrival of what we don't want. Alternatively, we can embrace the irreducible uncertainty of life. This shift from resistance and helplessness to mourning allows acceptance of outcomes, reduction of stress, and opens the door to noticing and appreciating what's present and available amidst challenges.

  7. Use of “To Be” Verbs

    Use of “To Be” Verbs

    John Kinyon

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: “I heard a trainer say once that the ‘to be’ verbs aren’t really needs, such as to be heard, to be understood or to be valued. Can you help me understand why not?”

  8. Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go

    Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go

    (4 Session Course)

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 6 - 8 hours · 10/27/2019

    Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed – or locked into passivity? This course offers you a way out. Learn to change the way you perceive leadership, and you’ll help yourself respond more powerfully and proactively every day of your life – wherever you are – and whomever you’re with!

  9. About NVC- Nonviolent Communication

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  11. 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.

  12. What level of writing?

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  13. Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

    Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 7/16/2015

    Trainer Tip: Sometimes the best way to get our need me is to first connect with the needs of another.

  14. Prepare for Love

    Prepare for Love

    (12 Session Course)

    Eric Bowers

    Multi-session Course · 9 hours, 7 minutes · 4/14/2017

    Join Eric Bowers in transforming past relationship pain, coming alive in community and creating thriving relationships. This 12 session Telecourse recording brings together Eric's passions for Nonviolent Communication, Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

  15. Expressing Appreciation

    Expressing Appreciation

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 10/17/2020

    Trainer tip: When you want to thank someone expressing what that person did, how you felt about and what needs were met for you, can provide the other person with more information. It can also help her more fully understand how she contributed to you, and deepen your connection with her.

  16. Healing Deep Inner Wounds

    Healing Deep Inner Wounds

    Eddie Zacapa

    Articles · 3 - 4 minutes · 5/14/2023

    Mismanaged emotional pain can compound and hurt ourselves and others. Four ways we can mismanage pain are: denial, blame, depression, and escape/numbing. This can result in hatred, resentment, discrimination, revenge, anger, and more problems. The fifth way we can deal with pain is to confront the pain acknowledging it and dealing with our unmet needs. This is a more direct path. Read on for more ideas for how to handle the pain.

  17. Sharing NVC With Others

    Sharing NVC With Others

    Miki Kashtan

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

    In this prerecorded telecourse, Miki Kashtan uses an interactive dialogue to address some of the most common questions among new NVC facilitators and trainers.

  18. Needs-Based Negotiation

    Needs-Based Negotiation

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 11/29/2019

    Trainer Tip: When we create situations that value one person’s needs at the expense of another, we open the door for someone to lose. Instead, look to see if you can speak openly and honestly, value the other person’s needs, and create solutions that value all stakeholder needs.

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