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The Jackal as a Teacher

that ignoring your jackal will be healing. The more you ignore your jackal, the louder and fiercer it howls! Your jackal truly cares about your well-being. Hear it, empathize with it, learn its intentions, and create more satisfying strategies to meet your needs. This journey is filled with self-care, love, nurturing, and healing for you. Pay attention to what your inner jackal has to teach you...
Navigating Self-Judgment

self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations. This practice helps you connect deeply with the unmet needs and intentions behind your actions, allowing you to move from self-criticism to self-compassion. By embracing this process, you can foster genuine learning and growth. If you're committed to embodying...
When to Speak, When to Listen

Oren J. Sofer offers an NVC approach to navigating tough moments—balancing honest self-expression with deep listening. Discover how centering yourself, naming your intentions, and hearing the other person first can create the understanding needed for true connection. Keywords: Oren J Sofer authenticity listening presence connection empathy understanding conflict communication
NVC Basics

support and weekly participant exercises to teach you how to speak from your heart without blame, shame or criticism. Learn the key NVC distinctions, how to ground yourself in a compassionate intention, and specific tools to maintain your NVC consciousness in all interactions. Listen to this prerecorded telecourse, offered in 6 parts, and you will learn: Basic components of the NVC process and...
Sharing NVC With Others

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. Hear from a wide range of other trainers and facilitators to learn from their successes and challenges. Miki also explores common challenges teaching complex NVC concepts, including how to...
Stop Suffering

In this inspiring audio, Kelly Bryson, veteran CNVC Certified Trainer and author of many NVC books and articles, explores the importance of setting a clear intention and then clarifies the difference between pain and suffering. Kelly tells us that pain is different from suffering and then offers specific suggestions on how to meet your pain and your suffering to stimulate personal healing....
Four Types of Feedback

dialogue, or Deconstructive Feedback: "We become explorers, tentative with our meanings, and open to changing them when we discover new vantage points or information" (Kegan and Lahey). Central intention is neither to tear down nor to build up, but to disassemble. The object of attention is not the other but our own evaluation or judgment. And, of course, we always have four choices about how we...
Self-Empathy

to the universality of needs). Extending acceptance to all who are involved in the situation (turning your attention to others with an attention of acceptance and considering what their positive intention was in behaving the way they did). Tuning into gratitude to open the possibility for valuing all needs (noticing something you feel grateful for either in the present or past and savoring this...
ZENVC

telecourse recording draws insights from NVC’s elder siblings of Taoism, Buddhism and indigenous culture to offer new ways of approaching common NVC ‘stuck’ places, including topics such as: Why intention is the fundamental principle of NVC, and how to cultivate its power The other NVC: non-verbal communication How to end the illusion of ‘my needs’ and ‘your needs’ How to walk in the dark, when...
Learning the Practice of Being in Empathy

as “reading” another person’s inner state and translating it into understandable conversation which supports mutual connection. Experience this audio to: Deepen your understanding and purpose of intention Learn to respond to challenging situations without losing connection with another Experience ease in being present to another person’s pain without a desire to judge, blame or fix Learn to...