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The Compass - Awakening to the Journey from You to Yourself

The Compass – Arnina Kashtan's in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only does this process enable you to heal the wearying, unending struggle between you and yourself, it also helps you get "unstuck" so you can...
Exploring Conflict Agreements

Here are five practical ideas from Ceri, Jo, and Sarah for creating simple agreements with any group you are working with when conflict arises! This video presents various examples of conflict agreements used by different groups to manage tension and maintain harmony within communities. From online training sessions to family dynamics, and local parks to practice groups, these agreements...
Making Requests and Avoiding Demands

Sylvia Haskvitz offers a practical and effective approach to making requests. Learn the two questions that can clarify your motivation for making a request, three ways to discern a request from a demand, and five possible reasons for meeting requests. The difference between a request and a demand is only clearly seen when the other person says "no". Read this Practice Keywords: requests demands...
Does Communicating with Compassion Mean Letting go of our Judgements?

Eradicating judgments is likely impractical as our minds naturally form them. However, understanding inevitable judgments as indicators of our needs rather than truths can foster empathy. Expressing needs rather than judgments can better support connection and openness between one another. Read this article Keywords: judgments mindfulness empathy conflict Ranjitha Jeurkar
Embracing Empathy

Access this complete 4 session course This course recording will help you: Increase clarity of what empathy is and is not Increase self-compassion through self-empathy Provide hands-on practice in empathizing Explore “touching the dream” in empathy Find out what prevents you from giving empathy and learn ways to access choice in moments when you are triggered Enhance your skills for empathic...
The Living Energy of Needs

Have you experienced inauthenticity, confusion and flatness in expressing empathy with others? Do you long to create a more natural quality of energy as you practice empathy? Or are you a trainer looking for guidance to teach workshop participants a more natural flow in their empathy practice? In this interactive, pre-recorded training video and associated exercise, Susan Skye helps you unlearn...
From Domination to Partnership

How can we create a partnership and eye-level dialog with people who we perceive to have more power? Kirsten Kristensen creates a practice of humanizing ourselves and others through empathy, practicing scary honesty, and making requests that serve both persons’ needs. Keywords: Kirsten Kristensen domination empathy scary honesty requests partnership
NVC Dialogue Lab

Access this complete 5 session course If role play, hearing conversations modeled and dialogue practice is how you learn, this is the telecourse recording for you! Learn the art of entering, staying in and bowing out of the conversational dance, playing with real-life situations in our virtual communication “laboratory” using the Nonviolent Communication components of Observations, Feelings,...
Setting Boundaries with Attraction

Attraction to others is neither good nor bad. Although it's pleasurable it doesn’t necessarily help with wise discernment. When it arises, it's up to you to engage in wise discernment about how you manage it. This guide provides practices and points of focus to engage your own attraction in a way that holds more choice about what will meet needs for yourself and others, and what role attraction...
Needs Analysis

Trainer Tip "The difference between a dream and a goal is a timeline." —Dr. Phil McGraw You will experience relief and joy if you take conscious action that is in alignment with the needs you want to meet. In my first Nonviolent Communication class, the trainer led us through a process in which we each identified our greatest need. All eight participants were surprised at what they discovered...