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Understanding The Obstacle of Limiting Beliefs With Regard To Making Requests

When you attempt to make a request what limiting beliefs come up? See if you recognize any from this list. Then compassionately observe your body sensations, impulses, feelings, needs, memories, energy, and images. In making the request ensure your request is connected to your needs, is doable, what you want, and not attached to them saying yes. Read this article Keywords: request limiting...
Boundaries For Healthy Differentiation

Differentiation means you can access both autonomy and intimacy in relationships. When you're unafraid to lose yourself or be controlled, you can feel deeply connected and affected, while standing strong in yourself. Differentiation also means ability to tolerate disharmony and differences, self-soothe, offer compassion, and set boundaries. Here, we'll focus on setting boundaries with...
Setting Loving Boundaries

How do you protect yourself while staying as connected as possible with others? How can you effectively communicate your limits and boundaries in clear, confident, and compassionate ways that actually enhance and strengthen your relationships? This session touches on concepts like narcissism, codependence, and shame while providing a nonviolent reframing of those dynamics. This will help you...
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...
Living in the Observation as a Daily Practice

Everything someone does or says is an attempt to meet a need …. Really? The other day, I was in a gathering and I ran into a woman two times. What I mean is, I looked up and she was right there and we were standing so close that I was startled. After an hour at this event, I was pulling out of my parking place. I looked both ways and waited for a car to go by and then pulled out of my parking...
Experiencing Feelings Outside of Right & Wrong

Many of us have been raised within a right/ wrong culture. From very young ages, we are asked, "What is wrong?" Yvette Erasmus shares a different view where emotions can be seen as expansion and contraction, where they can help us identify our needs. I celebrate feeling frustrated because it makes me feel alive and connects me to my needs. Keywords: feelings body awareness Yvette Erasmus
Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has "No" for an Answer

In this video download, expert parent trainer and author of Parenting From Your Heart, Inbal Kashtan responds to the age-old question: “Why do children do things to annoy parents?” Using jackal and giraffe puppets to illustrate common parent/child dialogues, Inbal answers other common questions like: What do I do when my child is “obstinate?” Why does my child thrive on not participating? Why...
Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy

Inbal offers parents and anyone with children in their life a lucid discussion of the important role self-empathy plays in creating healthy, supportive relationships. Are the strategies you're using right now supporting your goals for the relationships you want with your children? In this introduction to the NVC principle of self-empathy, Inbal uses an interactive dialogue and simple...
Modeling Behaviors You’d Like to Receive

Trainer Tip I wish with all my heart that we had been able to give the previous generation of students these (Nonviolent Communication) skills. I’m certain if we had, they would have had other means for resolving their differences than violence. —A teacher in Belgrade, Yugoslavia The ways that we interact with our children shape the way they will interact in their world. Our actions either...
Committing to Full Understanding

Trainer Tip Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. —Phyllis Diller Recently I visited my parents and I offered to take down their Christmas decorations for them. I offered because they are elderly, and I know how difficult it is for them to do certain tasks. This would meet my need to contribute to their lives. My father responded to my request by saying, in a tone I heard as impatience:...