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Staying Connected with Yourself While with Family

This audio training with expert trainer Rita Herzog explores the NVC alternative to family relationships: stay grounded in your own needs and values so you are able to reach out with empathy to family members. Sound easy? Listen to what Rita has to say about her own pattern in her family and see if you can relate. Rita says, “As a child, I did not hear my family talk about feelings, so I was...
How to Enjoy Your Family Dinner

If you dread family gatherings because of family tensions, you can find ways to excavate through piles of hardened judgments and hopelessness, build on your inner strength, and engage with family conflicts with open-hearted curiosity, greater presence, and connecting with what really matters to everyone. You can transform old conflicts and "compost" new ones as they arise to prevent future...
Dialogue with Extended Family

Many families are far more complex and varied than they used to be. In this recording, Miki works with participants, focusing on specific challenges they’re facing with family members. Listen In. Keywords: expression feelings honesty requests strategies connection dialogue listening relationships collaboration family mother daughter families apology apologizing aloneness togetherness brother...
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...
How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

precious needs, allowing you to experience greater compassion and harmony this holiday. Keywords: empathy presence strategies anger blame compassion judgment listening conflict resolution families Family Conflict family communication peace politics holidays Mary Mackenzie
Taking Care Of Yourself When Visiting Family

Before entering a family gathering, set your intention to notice reactivity and make a plan for self-care when it comes up. It might also be helpful to imagine repetitive interactions and plan how you will respond; for example with a boundary, honest expression, empathy, or by taking a time-out for self-care. Remember your core values, intention, and how you are committed to showing up in the...
How to Navigate Holiday Conversations with Family

your limits, speak your truth, share your personal stories, be present and recall permanence. Read this practice exercise This article was originally published on Oren’s website Keywords: conflict family communication listening questions boundaries honesty presence holidays Xmas Thanksgiving Oren Jay Sofer
How to Survive the Holidays

For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument? For me, learning to find balance, authenticity and care in my conversations with family members was a key turning...
The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC

we often face challenging situations on a daily basis and struggle to create what we most long for. In this 6 session course recording, you will learn how Nonviolent Communication can support a family culture where cooperation, trust and peace are nurtured, and children and parents can flourish together. Are you longing to nurture a relationship with your child based on connection, trust and...
Parenting and Anger

mediating conflict, parenting skills and study of brain science in this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace in your family. If you ’are tired of exploding, stuffing your anger, or living in endless hopelessness, take this course to learn practical tips for using anger to fuel peace. Sound impossible? Take this...