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How Do We Build Relationships?

Building relationships happens through dialogue and understanding the deeper meaning behind the words spoken. It’s about active listening that focuses on feelings and needs so you may truly comprehend the speaker’s message. In this video, Duke introduces two components of communication and how the restorative dialogue process supports mutual understanding. Keywords: Duke Duchscherer applying...
Facilitating Deeper Understanding

Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a meaningful way. Keywords: Mary Mackenzie captions searchable transcript group facilitation tips naturalizing NVC
Mourning and Celebration

Mourning, grief and celebration is a way to connect with what we love and want to honor. In this trainer tip we learn that these three things can become a way for us to understand our emotions regarding our losses and appreciations. Read this trainer tip Keywords: mourning celebration grief gratitude love loss miss suppress death honor appreciate longing David Weinstock
A More Expansive Understanding of Observations

Roxy Manning discusses the need to expand our understanding of observations within Nonviolent Communication (NVC). She challenges the idea of objective observation, noting its limitations, and introduces internal observations, citing personal experiences to illustrate their influence on emotions and self-perception. Additionally, she emphasizes systemic awareness as a crucial aspect of...
The Art and Science of Happiness

Access this complete 4 session course What is it that enables us to thrive? How is it that some people are generally happier than others? How can we influence our capacity to live a meaningful and fulfilling life? Listen to Jim and Jori in this course recording on the intersection of NVC and cutting-edge Positive Psychology, the science of human thriving. Research has identified 5 elements of...
The Difference Between Needs and Requests

Trainer Tip When our needs are not being fulfilled, we follow the expression of what we are observing, feeling, and needing with a specific request: we ask for actions that might fulfill our needs. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. In Nonviolent Communication, we see needs as universal. That means that everyone has the same needs for love, support, connection, resources, food, shelter, etc. A...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 11

When we take a leap in life and put our hearts out into the world in new or bigger ways—sharing a song, dance, or poem, writing a book, competing at a sporting event, giving a speech, and so on—there is greater potential for aliveness but also for shame and pain. It is thrilling to follow our dreams and share our authenticity, creativity, and inspiration. But it is also risky because the parts...
Honesty as a Means to Connect

Trainer Tip "My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn’t happen, none of this is worth it" —Jewel Kilcher Not long ago, I was sitting in church listening to the choir. One of the gentlemen in the choir stepped up to the mike to sing a brief solo. He sang off key sometimes and his voice shook. I thought he was very nervous. I wondered, should I tell him that he sang off key? It...
Acknowledging Our Inner Critic

Trainer Tip "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me." —Mahatma Gandhi In Compassionate Communication, some of us call the critical voice inside our heads our jackal. The jackal says you should or shouldn’t do something; it judges you and other people; and it is the most likely to get scared when you begin to make a change. I used to be embarrassed by my jackal...
Engage Your Curiosity

Trainer Tip It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. —Walt Disney Do the people in your life ever respond in ways that simply baffle you? In such situations, we may think: “What was he thinking? He completely reversed himself. He must have been confused, hurt, or out of his mind.” We have a tendency to tell a story about what we think was behind the other person’s reaction. We spend a tremendous...