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Looking at Anger from an NVC Perspective

In this vintage 1999 video, Wes Taylor leads a group of young people in a lively discussion on working with anger. He clarifies that anger is a valid feeling that is a product of "jackal" thinking and points out that anger is never the primary emotion; there is always a more vulnerable feeling underneath anger. When feeling angry, Wes suggests that you ask yourself two simple questions: 1. Is...
Mediating Conflict for Yourself and Others

Access this complete 8 session course This course recording provides an experience with the language, skills and consciousness of NVC applied to mediating all types of conflict whether you are one of the people in conflict or you are supporting others in conflict, including: personal and family relationships business/organizational community The training involves three integral dimensions: a...
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...
NVC as Spiritual Practice

Access this complete 4 session course This 4 session course recording offers practices while exploring the relationship between the core elements of NVC and universal spiritual principles. A primary template for the class is using the four NVC components of Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request to support meditative presence and awareness, in conjunction with four universal spiritual...
Where Do Jackal Voices Come From?

The human brain is a conservative organ that comprises different systems with varying degrees of conscious awareness, which evolved in three basic stages of human history (the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain.) In my understanding, we could say, the brain has strong needs for understanding, order, predictability and meaning. In fact, one of its key functions is to process experiences, and predict...
An Introduction to Self-Compassion

Access this complete 10 session course In this course recording, discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence. The heart of self-compassion is coming to an inner knowing of how we can regard ourselves with complete and total allowing. By relaxing the part of us that feels that we so desperately need to improve ourselves, we...
Embracing Your Emotions

Access this complete 3 session course In his poem, "The Guest House," Rumi invites us to welcome all of our emotions as "guides from beyond." This short 3 session course, discover how to honor the wisdom that anger, fear, shame, depression and other BIG emotions have for you. This class is all about emotional literacy, emotional intelligence and understanding your emotions for the messengers...
Every Angry Message is a "Please"

Trainer Tip The only way to master love, is to practice love. —Don Miguel Ruiz Sometimes it is hard to remember, but every time someone speaks or acts in anger or frustration, he is saying "Please!" Consider the please when your child says, "We NEVER get to do what I want to do!" The child is saying, "Please, I want fairness and fun. I want to know that you care about my needs, too." How about...
The Value of Taking a Step Back

Keys to Have a “Fight to the Life” Instead of “to the Death” Have you ever gotten a fishing line all tangled up? You got so frustrated you just started yanking on the different loops of line, which of course made the knots and tangles even tighter and more difficult to untangle. Wouldn’t it be great if you could notice the minute you were starting to tangle things up in a discussion with your...
Being Open to Feeling

Trainer Tip True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. —May Sarton If someone accidentally stepped on your finger, it would hurt, right? You would feel and probably express pain. Few of us would endure the pain without asking the person to step off our finger simply because we thought we shouldn’t complain. Pain is pain. It’s not good or bad; it is simply how we feel. Maybe the person didn’t...