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Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis

Access this complete 3 session course 2020 added three major global crises to our long and painful list of ongoing challenges: Public health crisis emerging from the Coronavirus infecting humans; Governance crisis manifesting especially in global protests against police brutality and governments more generally; and Economic crisis unfolding from responses to the pandemic. And as a result, many...
Listen to the Universe

Listen to the Universe is a fun group exercise to explore how we focus our attention and interpret what we experience. How it is played: Ask for a volunteer and ask them to leave the room. Brainstorm possible tasks for the volunteer while the volunteer is out of hearing distance. Start with a fairly easy task the first time. Ideas for easy tasks might include: taking someone's shoe off, picking...
Developing a Needs Consciousness

Shifting to a needs-based perspective is one of the most powerful—and challenging—aspects of integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) into daily life. In this short video, Mary Mackenzie offers three simple, practical tips to help you cultivate needs consciousness and transform how you experience your world and relationships. From hourly check-ins to reflecting on your day, these strategies...
How to Create Your Own Teaching Activities

Listen as Mary Mackenzie shares an eight step path to create your own NVC learning activities, based on your own NVC learning experience. In this session, Mary uses the value of requests and observations as teaching examples. 8 Easy Steps for Developing Teaching Activities Opening premise: Borrowing teaching exercises from other people can be fun and easy. However, when we develop our own...
Love Without Conditions, Control or Coercion

In this compelling, prerecorded telecourse, discover how freedom and autonomy are the basis for all healthy relationships. Kelly provides tools to help anyone improve or create outstanding relationships with others. The critical first step is creating a giving, loving relationship with yourself. Discover how to use "high-octane empathy and self-empathy" to overcome the four great "love-enders,"...
Dialogue within Communities

Access this complete 4 session course Dialogue is a life-changing, heart-opening experience. It’s collaboration instead of compromise. Join Miki for a practical, step-by-step framework to help you understand how a community develops, how to maintain or repair a community, and how this unique process creatively supports you and each member of your community in getting things done. With Miki as...
Transformative Dialogue

The less blame and criticism, the easier it is for others to hear us. From this perspective, it’s in our best interest to come from curiosity and care. This way differences can bring us together and help us know one another. The more mutual understanding, the easier it is to work together and find creative solutions. Read on for more on this, with a story about how a black man inspired 200...
Attending to Inner Conflict

When we have an inner conflict, how can we bring ourselves closer where we want to be? Miki explains about how we can deepen our self understanding in a way that can transform our own reactivity, urges, and false either/or views -- so that we can bring in more presence, choice, and options. Read this article Keywords: false dichotomy inner conflict self sabotage choice freedom liberation inner...
Emotional Regulation Strategies

Emotional regulation is the consistent capacity to fully experience one’s feelings, particularly when they are intense and/or painful. Here are 36 practices that help with emotional regulation that can be done alone or with others. Read on for more. See this learning tool Keywords: emotional regulation self care triggered LaShelle Lowe-Chardé Elia Lowe Charde
NVC Life Hacks 27

When the pressure is on whether that's rushing out the door for the school run or getting them to bed on time, it's easy to leave all our best practices to one side. Luckily Nonviolent Communication gives us some useful tools to add to our metaphorical parenting tool belt and today we're sharing 6 tips to help bring out the compassionate parent in you. Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren...