Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Don’t Use That Psych 101 with Me!
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Don’t Use That Psych 101 with Me!
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Don’t Use That Psych 101 with Me!
Audio
5 minutes
06/07/2011
CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan helps a man whose ex-spouse reacted strongly to his attempt at empathizing with her. Miki shows us how it’s possible to hide behind our empathic expression, creating less rather than more connection. She suggests instead that we be vulnerably authentic.
NVC Life Hacks 5: Conflict
Video
3 minutes
07/18/2018
Conflict occurs when disagreements undermine the sense of trust and safety in family, workplace, or community. Shantigarbha shares nine tips for addressing, and even transforming conflict.
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Finding Our Authentic Expression
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Finding Our Authentic Expression
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Finding Our Authentic Expression
Video
8 minutes
06/07/2011
CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan offers 3 steps we can take to access and express our deepest authentic expression.
Needs Analysis—an Activity to Uncover Your Strategies
Needs Analysis—an Activity to Uncover Your Strategies
Needs Analysis—an Activity to Uncover Your Strategies
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
10/2005
Trainer Tip: Find your deepest need. Then notice when you do things, or have done things, that keep you from meeting your most important need. And then take conscious action that is in alignment with the need you want to meet.
Increasing diversity in NVC circles
Article
9 - 13 minutes
06/2019
Want to increase diversity, plus improve group dynamics and group functioning? There are things you can do to make NVC settings more welcoming to people of color. Learn more about how to use NVC; attend to impact; help the community understand and demonstrate more awareness; factor in historical context; engage; create a more inclusive climate; and more!
Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts
Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts
Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
01/2016
How do you know when you’re projecting disowned parts or replaying old relationship dynamics? It’s hard to know for sure, but if you find yourself upset or shutting down and unable to have a dialogue in which you can speak clearly about your feelings and needs and empathize with the other’s feelings and needs, there is likely a projection. The stronger your reaction, the more likely you are projecting.
Creating an Internal Secure Base
Article
5 - 8 minutes
9/2018
We each hold an internal model or set of expectations about how caring and comfort could be accessed in relationship. The ability to reflect upon and challenge our own dominant model of perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors --and to experience discomfort and vulnerability-- is a key feature of "security". If not, an "attachment reactivity" arises -- where sense of insecurity, separateness, and belief that love, and acceptance can't be trusted nor accessed reliably. Thus change would require intensive support. Here's a guide to help you reflect and access change.
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Accepting What Is
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Accepting What Is
Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Accepting What Is
Video
6 minutes
06/07/2011
CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan explains how naturalizing NVC language involves self care and begins with accepting what is true in the moment.
Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)
Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)
Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)
Audio
5 hours, 26 minutes
03/2008
Bask in this telecourse recording with Kathleen Macferran and explore ways to nurture and maintain greater depths of joy by focusing on gratitude. The reward? To increase your ability to live fully present to the joy in life, even in the midst of pain.
Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)
Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)
Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)
Audio
3 hours, 26 minutes
02/2010
This 3-part telecourse recording explores what it means to practice “power with” parenting with babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Ingrid has been teaching and writing about very young children for a decade and has a special passion for this age range.