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Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment

Access this complete 6 session course Living Compassion, for Robert, represents the spirituality that resides in every aspect of Nonviolent Communication. Its foundational principles are represented by three primary qualities or states of being: clarity, compassion and empowerment. In this course you’ll explore – and practice – how the unfolding of inner clarity opens your way to compassion,...
Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request

Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness practice, grounded on NVC's core components of: Observation Feeling Need Request John leads a thoughtful role-playing demonstration...
Embracing Nonviolence

Access this complete 4 session course Gandhi spoke about applying nonviolence in thought, word, and action. The heart of the practice of nonviolence is a commitment to live through the powerful combination of compassion, fierceness, and courage, with an uncompromising willingness to stand for truth. The purpose of this course is to place NVC within the tradition of nonviolence and to support...
Using Images in Your Empathy Guessing

Join Dian Killian and discover the power of imagery and metaphor in deepening your empathy practice. This segment from her 6 session course explores how visualizing sensations, emotions, and needs through metaphorical language can enhance the connection during empathy guessing, particularly in somatic-based approaches. By incorporating relatable images, you create a natural and colloquial way...
What Is NVC? A Restorative Path to Connection and Healing

Aya Caspi describes Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a restorative practice—one that reconnects us with life, trust, and the experience of mattering. She reflects on Marshall Rosenberg’s vision of NVC as a “language of life,” helping us shift from disconnection to connection, from distrust to trust. Aya shares how every NVC practice is designed to meet needs and restore well-being—both within...
Connecting with Ourselves

True inner freedom arises from self-connection. Without self-connection, we're mostly acting from habits, and those habits do not necessarily attend to our own needs. Here's a practice you can explore in your daily life to deepen your relationship with yourself, and experience true choice and inner freedom. Read this article Keywords: choice freedom self connection habits self sabotage practice...
The Needs Underneath a Need for Fairness

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I'm practicing with "transforming the pain of unmet needs into the beauty of the need." In identifying my unmet needs, I come up with "fairness." However, fairness isn't on the needs list! I'm wondering what needs might be underneath "fairness." Here is my process so far: Observation: I asked Jesse to help enter data sheets, and he spent the last twenty minutes...
The Needs of the Many

LoraKim Joyner addresses the sense of overwhelm, sometimes accompanied by ideology, that can impede holding the needs of the many. Practicing self-empathy is a pathway to living in the tension of mutually holding my needs and the needs of others. Keywords: consciousness needs strategies intention social change spirituality peace power fear interdependence awareness universal human needs LoraKim...
The Gift of Conflict

How do you solve a conflict? By not trying to solve it! Yoram suggests building your conflict resolution muscles by practicing connecting to the needs behind the conflict instead. Check out this excerpt from Session 1 of his 2021 course, Connecting in Conflict and the Art of Navigating Dialogue. Listen. Keywords: Yoram Mosenzon conflict honesty strategies needs beauty of the needs
Bridge the Gap

Access this complete 4 session course Using the gentle lens of NVC, Selene will guide you in supportive exploration, bringing understanding, clarity and relief to troubled relationships with your grown children. Whether the issues are estrangement, lack of trust, conflict, dependence, miscommunication or any other challenge that impacts you with your grown sons and daughters, your heart will...