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Navigating Uncertainty

In uncertain times, when facing important life decisions, it's common to get caught up in imagining various scenarios and potential outcomes. The desire to predict and control the future often gives a false sense of security. The key is to make decisions based on the information available now, minimizing the number of irreversible choices. This approach maintains focus on what is known and...
Empowering Kids Under Current Systems of Domination

Join Aya Caspi as she delves into the difficult topic of parenting, childhood trauma, and social status. She discusses the generational impact of being labeled by society as "less than" or subservient. The wounds of childhood trauma can be healed so they no longer are a means of control by a dominant culture. Childhood trauma has a significant impact on a person. Often a person feels inferior...
The Magic and Mechanics of Lasting Love

Access this complete 5 session course Lasting Love – The Magic and Mechanics is a uniquely powerful course that blends NVC with Dr. Sue Johnson’s empirically validated work on adult love relationships called EFCT: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Mukti invites you to re-think your inner definition of love and attachment. You’ll gradually learn to recognize your unique “dance of distress”...
NVC at Work

Access this complete 6 session course Numerous studies, books, and articles show that companies and organizations are experiencing a crisis. Survey after survey shows that the majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond corporations – teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers...
Moralistic Judgments

Trainer Tip The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. — Leonardo da Vinci Moralistic judgments imply that other people are wrong or bad because they don’t act in ways that are in harmony with our values. If you see someone driving faster than you think is safe, you might say that they are a maniac driver. If someone talks slower than is fun for you, you might say that they...
Opening to Intimacy

Trainer Tip "The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness." ——Erich Fromm Some time ago, I was at a gathering of 2,000 people. I was feeling very sad, vulnerable, and lonely, so I chose to sit by myself in a crowd of people I didn’t know. Then I heard my name blaring across the crowd. A group of my friends were calling me over to sit...
Longing For The Company Of Not-Knowers

The last two days I spent on airports, planes and in similar social settings, on my way to co-facilitating a retreat in Virginia, US. And, as I often do in such situations, I spent certain amount of time sitting and observing people, hearing their conversations… And again I had this sense that somehow most of the conversations seem to be about proving to each other how right we are. As if the...
Key Facts About Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

Read this article The first page is a title page, please scroll down to read the article. From the bedroom to the boardroom, from the classroom to the war zone, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is changing lives every day. NVC provides an easy to grasp, effective method to get to the root of violence, pain and conflict peacefully. By examining the unmet needs behind what we do or say, NVC helps...
Anger’s Two Kinds of Reactivity

There's reactive anger - the sudden outbursts of words, temper or action that create a nervous system response in another. And then there's the anger that's a reaction to someone's anger -- a nervous system startle-response. Instead of either of these, we can learn to heal with empathy, look for unequal power dynamics, take responsibility to make repairs, and shift into the clean, life-serving,...
Finding Your Way Through Hard Times

What have you lost this year during this COVID-19 pandemic? Are you grieving too? Recognition of loss can helped contextualize our emotions. When we can meet grief with understanding, patience and tenderness, when we create space to mourn our losses -- and to begin to process, heal and metabolize loss. This can help us make sense of change and orient to a new reality. Grief is a longing for...