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  1. 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.

  2. Going Deep

    Going Deep

    Understanding Your Own and Others’ Deeper Motivations

    Alan Rafael Seid

    Practice Exercises · N/A · 9/22/2016

    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 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.

  3. Beyond Right and Wrong

    Beyond Right and Wrong

    Bridget Belgrave

    Video · 1 hour, 4 minutes · 10/28/2016

    In this vintage NVC video, Bridget Belgrave, CNVC Certified Trainer from the United Kingdom, uses a Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate the key principles of Nonviolent Communication. Starting with needs at the center, Bridget builds a visual structure of the NVC process. This resource has been newly remastered to a larger, higher quality video.

  4. Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation

    Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation

    For All the Meetings in Your Life (6 Session Course)

    Greg Rouillard, John Buck, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 9 hours · 10/29/2022

    Join CNVC Certified Trainer Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Greg Rouillard and Certified Dynamic Governance (Sociocracy) Consultant John Buck for this six-session course recording to learn how to transform your method of meeting facilitation. Many NVC organizations have begun using sociocratic tools, including circle meetings and decision making by consent, with satisfying results.

  5. In this inspiring video, Robert Gonzales, veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, talks about his personal search to integrate spirituality into his daily life, and how Nonviolent Communication provided the missing link for this integration and has become the focus of his work.

  6. Join CNVC Certified Trainer Jori Manske in an exploration of how gratitude can enable you to remain more present moment to moment, thus enabling you to flourish in your life!

  7. In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, explores observation in contrast to interpretation, and leads an exercise in observation skills.

  8. Neural Pathways to Happiness

    Neural Pathways to Happiness

    (9 Session Course)

    Anne Walton

    Multi-session Course · 5 - 6 hours · 5/22/2019

    Want to learn how to live your life more fully than you ever dreamed? In this course you’ll learn how you can shake off old behaviors that no longer serve you, get inspired to embrace a daily happiness practice, and begin experiencing a brand new sense of personal joy and inner peace.

  9. Yoram Mosenzon discusses judgmental dialogue and its hidden aim to meet needs. This often creates distance instead of fostering connection. Yoram introduces a self-connection exercise to improve the chances of dialogue becoming more enriching and life-serving.

  10. The Tao of Empathy

    The Tao of Empathy

    Practicing the Presence of Empathy and Four Elements of Empathic Connection

    John Kinyon

    Audio · 2 hours, 10 minutes · 7/17/2018

    In this recorded telecourse, John Kinyon, world renowned CNVC Certified Trainer, offers an overview and practice with four elements of empathy – presence, understanding/meaning, need language and deepening into needs.

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