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How to Interrupt

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I feel a lot of fear or nervousness about approaching a neighbor who uses "wastebasket talk." Once she's engaged, there are only two techniques that interrupt the flow: either leaving or interrupting. I would like to approach her and tell her that when she starts talking, and never stops to check in with me (the listener), it doesn't meet my need for sharing or...
Stoking the Fires of Joy

Access this complete 6 session course In this course recording, explore ways to nurture and maintain greater depths of joy by focusing your attention on gratitude. The reward? To increase your ability to live fully present to the joy in life, even in the midst of pain. Listen to this audio recording and you will: Learn ways to express and receive gratitude Live with renewed energy and savor...
Living the Fullness of Life

Access this complete 9 session course Living the Fullness of Life Program will help you: Gain skills for living in compassion every possible moment of your life Increase your ability to access your natural state of joy Transform your judgments by connecting to the inherent life within Expand your ability to embody the NVC consciousness Three key areas of focus in Robert’s work that he shares in...
Peace Starts At Home

Access this complete 6 session course “I will do everything in my power to resolve every conflict, however small.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, from the 4th precept as printed in For a Future to Be Possible When asked how we can create peace, the Dalai Lama suggested that we start at home. Through the practice of living in dialogue at home, where the stakes are often very high, you can increase your...
Every Angry Message is a "Please"

Trainer Tip The only way to master love, is to practice love. —Don Miguel Ruiz Sometimes it is hard to remember, but every time someone speaks or acts in anger or frustration, he is saying "Please!" Consider the please when your child says, "We NEVER get to do what I want to do!" The child is saying, "Please, I want fairness and fun. I want to know that you care about my needs, too." How about...
The Spiritual Path of NVC

Listen to Session 1 Listen to Session 2 Are you a spiritual seeker who longs for an approach that supports compassion for self as well as profound spiritual transformation? If so, you’ll enjoy this dynamic discussion with veteran trainer, Robert Gonzales, and Intuitive Storyteller, Leo Sofer as they explore how NVC can be used as a spiritual path. These discussions will surely support your...
The Freedom of Committing to a Path

In June, 1996, I had an epiphany. In a motel room in Indiana, the night before returning home from a solo camping trip in Michigan and Canada, I discovered how much I had lost in my life because of so fiercely protecting myself. Up until that day, bringing forth my vulnerable self was to be avoided at all costs, which kept me numb much of the time, disconnected from myself and from much of...
Forming, Uniting and Nurturing NVC Communities

Does your workplace convey a sense of “community?” And how does that sense of community you feel at work differ from what’s present at your church, your sangha or dojo? What about the neighborhood where you live? Do you ever find yourself taking your community for granted? And – what can YOU do to support and grow “community” wherever you find it? The word “community” is so fluid, it’s hard to...
Being Honest About Our Anger

Trainer Tip Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities. —Anonymous When I am angry, it is likely that I am not getting something that I want and that I think I should get, and I am about to say something that will ensure I won’t get it. When we blame other people, we place ourselves in a dangerous position of not meeting our needs in that relationship. Instead, take...
All in

Access this complete 7 session course When you consider making the full-on commitment to living nonviolently, do you … Worry that in some situations you will compromise your own needs? Wonder if it's even possible? Struggle to trust yourself to have what it takes? I used to feel that way too. Now, after some years of being on this path, I feel more able to face life, to trust myself to work out...