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Identify 12 Essential Aspects of Empathy

Each MCD Relationship Competency identifies six Skills, along with specific practices for learning each. (For more context about MCD Relationship Competency 2: Empathy, see Skill #1: Identify the differences between empathy and other responses to difficulty, Skill #2: Identify what prevents you from offering empathy, and Skill #3: Use a diverse vocabulary of feelings and needs.) Empathy is a...
Sharing NVC With Others

In this prerecorded telecourse, Miki Kashtan addresses some of the most common questions that arise as we attempt to successfully teach and share Nonviolent Communication with others. Based on her success with the BayNVC organization and her experience building a sustainable NVC training practice, Kashtan provides valuable insight into how to build a practice grounded in deliberate intention....
Tips for the Road Series Tip 13

This Tip for the Road is my answer to the question: What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I answered the question with romantic relationships in mind; however, I believe the answer below applies to all important relationships. No. 8. Follow Your Dreams and Find Your Purpose Keep doing what you love. Keep inspiring yourself. Keep living into your deepest...
What’s an Anchor and How do You Use It?

An anchor is something you turn your attention toward in order to interrupt reactivity and access a non-reactive, expansive perspective. Though it doesn't make the reactivity go away, it allow you the internal space to choose to not behave from reactivity. In this practice exercise learn more about anchors, plus how to create and use them. Read this practice exercise Keywords: anchor self...
"Acting from the Zero Step" Roleplay

When Marshall designed NVC, he said that the purpose of it was to create a quality of connection, that inspires compassionate giving and receiving. The zero step is awakening or remembering your intention to support compassionate giving and receiving. Do this practice exercise to awaken this intention and to roleplay with it in your heart. Read this practice exercise Keywords: intention zero...
Celebrate Your Progress!

Trainer Tip To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. —Walt Whitman Do you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed with all that you want to do, rather than celebrating what you’ve already done? I started jogging recently. The first day I jogged for two minutes and walked for four minutes, and then repeated this cycle four times. To keep my...
Group Feedback

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I'm part of a small, self-led NVC group that's been working together for almost two years. Currently, we're going through Marshall's book for the second time and experiencing some growing pains in that we're still not certain how and under what circumstances to make requests, especially negative ones. What we need is more modeling and coaching from trainers, or at...
Compassionate Communication and Empathy's Awakening

John Cunningham provides support to deepen your understanding and practice of NVC, including a sketch of the participatory and onlooker modes of consciousness, lists of feelings, needs and sample dialogues. It includes an overview of Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, a sketch of the participatory and onlooker modes of consciousness, lists of feelings and needs and sample dialogues....
NVC "Reality TV"

Access this complete 4 session course If role-play, hearing conversations modeled, and dialogue practice is how you learn, this 4-part course recording is for you! Learn the art of entering into, staying in, and bowing out of “the dance” of communication, playing with real-life situations using the four components of Nonviolent Communciation as the foundation. Overcome fear of entering...
Transforming Anger

Anger is one of the feelings that tell us we are thinking in a way in which we are disconnected from our needs; and from the Source of life within us; and in a way that is almost guaranteed to not create the connection and cooperation to meet our needs. It also seems to be a reaction tied strongly into the fight-flight survival response at the core of our biology as living organisms. For this...