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Deescalate Yourself:

In times of conflict, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves and our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to self-connection, empathy, and choice. Through accessible tools drawn from both personal experience and frontline work, you’ll learn how to...
Being Persistent About Getting Our Needs Met

Trainer Tip By perseverance the snail reached the ark. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon Do you ever find yourself in an argument that doesn’t seem to have a solution? Consider this couple’s situation. The husband picks up after himself and he likes a neat home; the wife tends to put things down and leave them there. Their arguments usually involve the husband accusing the wife of being lazy and...
Bridge the Gap

Access this complete 4 session course Using the gentle lens of NVC, Selene will guide you in supportive exploration, bringing understanding, clarity and relief to troubled relationships with your grown children. Whether the issues are estrangement, lack of trust, conflict, dependence, miscommunication or any other challenge that impacts you with your grown sons and daughters, your heart will...
Judging Feelings

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, Is it a good idea to use NVC on persistent guilt, anger or depression without the aid of others? — B.N., Massachusetts, USA Trainer Answer Listen to the Audio above for the complete trainer answer. Keywords: feelings argument connection dialogue inspiration listening personal growth conflict resolution relationships Family Conflict family communication partnership...
Communicating with Family Across Political Divides

CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan talks with radio show host Hollis Polk about strategies for communicating with family members whose political views oppose our own. Keywords: expression feelings honesty requests strategies anger argument compassion connection dialogue gratitude listening personal growth conflict resolution families relationships Family Conflict family communication peace...
Peace Is Possible

Access this complete 4 session course When you see violence and conflict among your family, colleagues and neighbors, do you wish you could do something to offer an alternative to violence, force and domination? Listen to this 4-session course recording, and you will learn simple steps for transforming conflicts and mobilizing peace at home, at work and in the world. Through using NVC and...
Guided Dialogue

In this snippet from Duke Duchscherer's course, Restorative Dialogues: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience, he shares a structured approach for conflict resolution or communication facilitation. It involves a facilitator guiding a conversation between two parties in conflict. The process begins with one party expressing their perspective while the other listens actively. The...
Is NVC Always One-on-One?

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I'm finishing up a toolkit on dialogue and deliberation and am including NVC in the conflict transformation section, but I am lacking any stories of actually transforming conflict in a situation of violent conflict between groups. (I have great "one-on-one" stories, of course.) Are there any that you could share? Or is that the wrong way to think of the work of...
Making A Connection In A Difficult Situation

Trainer Tip The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. —Francis Quarles I often hear this question in my work: “What is the single most important thing I can do to defuse a conflict?” My answer is always the same. “Hear the feelings and needs of the people involved.” Whether there is the potential of physical or emotional violence, the...
Confidentiality Agreement

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, In the second meeting of our beginner’s NVC practice group, one of the participants asked us (the two facilitators) if there was any kind of confidentiality agreement that was typically used in NVC practice groups. That question stimulated a number of other participants to feel concerned about confidentiality. One person suggested that we have an agreement to use...