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Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I just started teaching in a public school, and I can't say I'm enjoying the violence that teachers express towards children and their colleagues. There are, however, a couple of teachers in my building who sincerely believe in empathizing with children and respecting their needs. However, when I start talking about Nonviolent/Compassionate Communication (even if I...
Bringing Peace to Kids in Conflict

Access this complete 6 session course This 6-session course recording focuses on supporting people who work with children (e.g. parents, teachers, ministers, etc.) in applying the skills of NVC mediation in conflict situations that involve children. Listen to this telecourse recording and learn to: Understand and modulate your emotions (self-regulation) Recognize when children are emotionally...
Living Without Enemies

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you. Whether in government or in our bedroom, we often resort to dehumanizing others when core needs of ours are critically unmet in response to their...
Sherlock Holmes of the Heart

In this audio recording, Veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Sylvia Haskvitz uses real-life situations to help us find more natural expressions of what is harmony with our hearts. CNVC Certified trainer Sylvia Haskvitz: "People have often said to me, 'Can you say that again? Can I clone you and bring you home? I want to be able to sound like that.' In response to your requests, I collected over 70...
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...
Simple Interventions for Chronic Reactivity

For each reactive pattern there is a perceived threat to a tender need. Knowing these tender needs helps us figure out how to interrupt these patterns and creating new ways of perceiving and relating to life. In addition to knowing the need, knowing the healing response, and the primary reactive behavior helps with transformation. Read this article Keywords: practice reactivity trigger fear...
Three Ways to Build Connection Even When You Disagree

To express opposition without stimulating distress, stop judging and look for ways to honor, understand, and have compassion for others. You can do this by finding a point of agreement. For example, you can agree with part of what they said. Or if you completely disagree, you can express what greater understanding, inspiration, appreciation or empathy you have in response to what they're...
Help for Overwhelm

Reducing overwhelm requires you to reconnect with your authentic choice, be present and compassionate with what's happening, heal trauma, and interrupt the trauma response. Read on for ways that may help you reconnect with your choice, presence and more on trauma. Read this article Keywords: stress busy overwhelm authenticity LaShelle Lowe-Chardé Elia Lowe Charde
You Ask too Many Questions!!

Reveal what’s in your heart before asking a question to help build trust, especially if you're an authority figure. Otherwise, your question may sound like a demand, blame, trap, intrusion or accusation, and it may elicit a defensive response. If you get a "question" like that, give them empathy. Read on for reflection questions to see how our revealing and our withholding impacts our...
Paying Attention In Troubled Times

Our world is facing stressful times. And the more stress you experience, the less resourced you can become. But consider that you're not messed up, but rather, the challenges you bear is a response to manufactured environments and culture that are more hostile than they are kind towards our human souls and bodies. And so, let’s be clear. Let’s be discerning. Let’s be compassionate. Let’s pay...