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Rewire Your Brain for Change - Using Neurobiology to Transform Limiting Beliefs

CNVC Certified Trainer Anne Walton leads us through a guided visualization to help us make a shift in ideas we hold about ourselves. (Edited and Updated 10/6/2019) Keywords: neurobiology sex experiencing neuroscience self empathy presence observation exercises/practices empathy core beliefs consciousness neuroplasticity visualization Anne Walton
Unacknowledged Fear Looks Like Aggression

Miki Kashtan shares how Marshall Rosenberg helped her see how unacknowledged fear can be misinterpreted as aggression and offers an elegant and simple strategy for changing this dynamic. This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library. Access the complete 7-part course Keywords: relationships dialogue connection...
Embracing the Body

Our "felt-sense" can provide crucial information about our experience and our lives. It can also help us integrate and retain information. This can also bring greater access to internal resources, choice, open heartedness, collaboration and creative solutions. From there, profound insight and transformation can follow. Here's how we can harness that... Read this article Keywords: heartfelt...
Interdependence in Action

The awareness and practice of interdependence is integral to holding an NVC consciousness. Practicing interdependence also means bringing in a quality of care in the moments we want to change agreements with others. This article talks about where our various choices, in regards to changing agreements, fits into different levels of engaging our interdependence. Read this article Keywords:...
Empathy Buddy Guidelines

Here are some guidelines and agreements for creating empathy buddy sessions. Includes a list of blocks to empathy. See this guide Keywords: Empathy Buddy practice presence exercises activity Empathy blocks Peggy Smith
Tips for the Road Series Tip 8

In our fast-paced, busy lives it is tempting to practice NVC mostly with the left hemisphere of the brain, thinking through the steps quickly without slowing down to connect more deeply with feelings and needs. If you do self-empathy mainly with the left hemisphere, you will miss an opportunity to integrate the hemispheres of the brain and the valuable information from the neural networks in...
Unconditional Self-Acceptance

Here's a daily self-acceptance practice you can bring into your life whenever you are experiencing pain, tension, contraction, lack of fulfillment, or unmet needs or values. Giving your often undesired experiences space can be a path to greater inner connection and peace. Keywords: Robert Gonzales self acceptance contraction unmet needs presence attention awareness self compassion self judgment...
Connect Before Correct

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I have a question which has been running through my mind for some days now. It was sparked off in our NVC weekly practice group. I was sitting there trying to connect to my reasons for wanting to give empathy to a person who was telling us about some very painful feeling she was having, without connecting to her needs. I recalled hearing Marshall say something like...
Some Ideas for Using the Feelings & Needs Cards

This guide features three activities that use feelings and needs cards: two verions of "Feelings and Needs Poker" and one for "Self-Empathy". Great for practicing alone, with a partner, or in a group. See this guide Find feelings cards here. Find needs cards here. Keywords: feelings cards needs cards activity self empathy empathy practice universal human needs Peggy Smith
Repair and Heal Disconnection in Relationships

We all blow it sometimes. Maybe we are triggered and react in ways we regret. Or we unknowingly say or do something that unexpectedly touches a nerve for someone else. Either way, how do we heal the disconnection? In this session, you'll learn how to integrate skills for repairing relationships. Jim and Jori Manske are leading first with a self-connection meditation, then move on to practice...