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  1. Peace Starts At Home

    Peace Starts At Home

    (6 Session Course)

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 6 hours, 13 minutes · 11/4/2017

    Through your dialogues at home, where the stakes are often very high, you can increase your ability to meet the challenges of life everywhere with empathy, goodwill and authenticity. Please listen to this inspiring recorded telecourse with Miki Kashtan and learn how!

  2. 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.

  3. Don't Take It Personally

    Don't Take It Personally

    Rachelle Lamb

    Articles · 10 - 15 minutes · 12/17/2018

    When we don't like what someone is saying to us, sometimes people encourage us to hear their needs, and "not take it personally" -- and we're inclined to agree.  Could "not taking it personally" close our hearts and awareness to others, life and ourselves?  Rachelle Lamb invites us to take a closer look at what it's like when we attend to the situation from our hearts, and skillfully reflect upon our actions with tenderness.

  4. The Shadow Side of Autonomy

    The Shadow Side of Autonomy

    Rachelle Lamb

    Articles · 8 - 12 minutes · 12/21/2018

    Could our "need for autonomy" be getting in the way of "partnership consciousness" (as NVC is sometimes called). Could "autonomy" also block healthy relationships with not only ourselves and with others, but also with the planet? This article invites us to consider how "autonomy" may colour our NVC practice at the peril of our critical values. Values such as our care for impact, shared responsibility, interdependence, compassion, consideration, and more...

  5. Why Do I Feel Depressed?

    Why Do I Feel Depressed?

    Rachelle Lamb

    Articles · 7 - 11 minutes · 2/22/2019

    When does identifying our or others' needs become a coping mechanism that hides the real problems that go unaddressed, and thereby reinforcing problems?  This article zooms out to take a look at how dealing with our needs in the absence of the larger picture can inadvertertly support unhealthy ways of operating, rather than become a healthy solution.  It asks us to see what could be hidden -- both on the personal and societal levels.

  6. Staying Present in the Face of Conflict

    Staying Present in the Face of Conflict

    Jim & Jori Manske

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

    Jim and Jori offer a tip to stay present in the face of our reactivity to witnessed conflict.

  7. NVC Life Hacks 37

    NVC Life Hacks 37

    Connecting Your Feelings With Your Body

    Shantigarbha Warren

    Video · 14 minutes · 04/08/2023

    We can get stuck in our heads. All kinds of thoughts float into our minds. We then get thoughts about those thoughts, they might even make you feel a certain way or change a behaviour. But what happens when we connect our feelings with the physical sensations in our bodies? As part of our teaching at NVC we have incorporated movement work to help us connect with where we hold emotions and how we can process them effectively.

  8. Developing Patience

    Developing Patience

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 53 minutes · 10/25/2011

    Jim and Jori offer practical tools to help us develop patience through a process they call WAIT: Wake up, Accept, Insight, Take a step.

  9. Tips for the Road Series Tip 8

    Tips for the Road Series Tip 8

    Practice Self-Empathy with Your Whole Body

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 4/23/2017

    In our fast-paced, busy lives it is tempting to practice NVC mostly with the left hemisphere of the brain, thinking through the steps quickly without slowing down to connect more deeply with feelings and needs.  Don't miss an opportunity to integrate the hemispheres of the brain and the valuable information from the neural networks in the heart and gut.

  10. There are five aspects helpful to consider when creating conditions and atmosphere where you can be heard deeply and hear others deeply: context, self-connection, autonomy, security, and specific requests. Read on for more, and reflect on moments when you have been heard deeply and name everything that contributed to that experience.

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