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NVC Life Hacks 36

How can Nonviolent Communication practices support us when we're feeling depressed? Taking a look at some characteristics of depression and how they're linked to unmet needs, we offer some steps to take that help you reconnect with life and others. Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren depression feelings strategies unmet needs needs not met needs consciousness
Navigating Polarizing Conversations

Do you find yourself in difficult conversations, wishing to be understood? Do you receive comments that you do not know how to navigate effectively? Does it sometimes seem that the other person wants to argue? Do you long to connect in ways that can meet more needs at less cost to your well-being and connections? We are living in challenging times with varying opinions about what we "should be...
NVC Life Hacks 19

In this Life Hack, we take a closer look at 'values-based' feedback and give you 7 practical tips that will help you provide useful feedback. Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren feedback values
Facilitating Deeper Understanding

Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a meaningful way. Keywords: Mary Mackenzie captions searchable transcript group facilitation tips naturalizing NVC
Deepen Your NVC with Ken Wilber's Integral Framework

Access this complete 6 session course This course recording gives NVC Practitioners a guided tour of Ken Wilber’s work, a meta-theory (theory of theories) that includes as much knowledge and wisdom from as many sources as possible. You will explore how NVC and Integral Framework mesh, overlap and complement each other. Wilber is known as the “Einstein of Consciousness” because his work provides...
Introduction to NVC Mediation

This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. NVC mediation can be applied to conflict in all types of situations — from organizational and community to personal relationships, and in four mediation contexts – internal, interpersonal, informal, and formal – as well as pre-...
An Invitation to Resonance

Marshall Rosenberg, writing about Nonviolent Communication famously said, "Every action is an attempt to meet needs." Now, in the age when neuroscience has become accessible enough to help us decode everyday life, we can add, "And the needs behind every action might be in reaction to unseen nervous systems." In other words, the things that people do sometimes have very little to do with us, and...
Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life

Access this complete 4 session course Around the world, people are experiencing a new paradigm that holds all species (humans, animals, insects, etc.) as equal and mutually interdependent. Take this fascinating webinar with LoraKim Joyner and investigate how merging science; the social and emotional intelligence of humans, animals and other species; and Nonviolent Communication can bring a...
How to Navigate Holiday Conversations with Family

While we can’t control other’s behavior, we can choose how we show up. With forethought and care, we can approach interactions with more clarity, love, and skill. Read on for practices that include: Choose wise attention, ask better questions, practice deep listening, structure the conversation, know your limits, speak your truth, share your personal stories, be present and recall permanence....
The Sweetest Game in Town

Ask the Trainer I have always tried to encourage my children in their development through praise of certain behaviors, though I don't believe in praise or criticism of the person. For instance: "I notice you are doing a great job being patient, or generous, etc." Or: "Thank you for being so cooperative and respectful during violin practice. Great work!" What's your perspective on praise?...