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Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life

Access this complete 6 session course Benefits of this course: Increase your capacity for self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance Reclaim your passion for living authentically with compassion, creativity, love and clarity Strengthen your ability to be naturally open-hearted towards pain and mourning Learn to meet life with vulnerability and strength, together Deepen your spiritual...
Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis

Access this complete 3 session course 2020 added three major global crises to our long and painful list of ongoing challenges: Public health crisis emerging from the Coronavirus infecting humans; Governance crisis manifesting especially in global protests against police brutality and governments more generally; and Economic crisis unfolding from responses to the pandemic. And as a result, many...
Valuing My Needs When I Habitually Don't

Listen to John answer an NVC Library member's question about what we can do when we habitually place other's needs ahead our own. Healing and change can be reached through compassionate self-connection, needs awareness, mourning and mindfulness. Keywords: mourning needs requests self empathy strategies connection self compassion self connection mindfulness safety universal human needs John...
From Obligation To Giving from the Heart

You value generosity and you often give easily from the heart. There are those times, however, when you get snagged by a sense of obligation. You feel tense and resentful. You don't want to continue with this attitude, but how can you reconnect with the desire to give from the heart? Let’s touch on three essential elements that support giving from the heart: choice, mourning, and acceptance....
Navigating Parenthood with Compassion and Realistic Expectations

In parenting, Roxy Manning notes the tendency for self-judgment and external judgment. Roxy suggests that being a single parent or a working parent influences your ability to implement parenting strategies. The importance of assessing the feasibility of strategies in one's current life context is emphasized. Roxy encourages self-compassion and mourning the gap between desired and achievable...
Alarm Feelings

Anger, guilt, shame, and shutdown are often based on reactivity and “should” thinking. They narrow and distort perceptions, which can bring more suffering. So instead, feel them without resistance, nor acting on them. Bring clarity by naming your observables and thoughts, plus your underlying vulnerable feelings, needs and self-responsibility. Then mourn what needs were, or are, unmet. Only...
An NVC Perspective of Power Relations and Connection

Access this complete 4 session course Listen to this course and you will be drawn to: Explore an NVC perspective on power and the dynamics of race, class, gender and other social divisions Connect with yourself as you understand your own life experience in relation to power, resources and choice Develop capacity for showing up fully for dialogues across social divisions In Parts 1 and 2, Inbal...
Reconciliation & Healing

NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg, over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence, developed a 4-part model of reconciliation and healing. John Kinyon has worked closely with Marshall over many years and has learned this process from him and applied it to working with people in deep interpersonal pain. In this telecourse recording...
Feast for the Soul

Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable. From the depths of internal winter to the melting open in the warm sunshine of spring to rest in the ocean of Spirit, this poetry is a journey of discovering deep Presence through the human experiences so many of us share. These words will carry you...
Neither Rioting Nor Colluding

Young people in Baltimore and elsewhere are continuing to be killed for unfathomable reasons. Hurting people on all sides are roaring out in pain, demanding to be heard, and delivering hostile condemnation of each other’s actions. How do we talk about this? How to we say why the violence isn’t working for us without giving the impression that we’re condoning injustice? And how do we keep the...