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Connecting Feelings and Needs

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 11/02/2005
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
11/02/2005

Trainer Tip: When we connect our feelings to our needs, we put ourselves in a postion to get our needs met and mourn when they aren't met. Here's a practical tip you can practice daily to improve the quality of your life.


NVC Life Hacks 5: Conflict

Video • 3 minutes • 07/18/2018
Beginner Skill Level
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.


Conflict Improv: Returning the Flaky Olive Oil

Video • 15 minutes • Circa 2008
Beginner Skill Level
Video
15 minutes
Circa 2008

Using an example from a participant, the trainers engage in a role play to explore how to stay in your heart even when being perceived as a difficult customer by store employees.


Tips for the Road Series: Tip 13. The Eight Most Powerful Things You Can Do to Build an Inspiring Relationship

Trainer Tip • 4 - 6 minutes • 01/2016
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
4 - 6 minutes
01/2016

What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I answered the question with romantic relationships in mind; however, I believe the answer below applies to all important relationships.


The Mobilizing Power of Anger

Article • 3-5 minutes • 06/2020
All Skill Levels
Article
3-5 minutes
06/2020

Anger can result in violence or in a movement towards positive change. We can see this happen in the push for racial justice. When you perceive anger as a form of violence your nervous system becomes activated. Your perspective narrows and old conditioning can take over leading to overwhelm, defensiveness, hatred, or violence. Read on for four ways to to respond to our own or others' anger in a way that mobilizes desired change.


Being Resourceful With My Intense Emotions

Trainer Tip • 2 - 3 minutes • 5/2005
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
2 - 3 minutes
5/2005

What can we do to bring vitality and resourcefulness back into our lives when we are feeling overwhelmed, depressed, anxious, or frustrated? Read on for a nine step process.


Tip: Demystifying Empathy Guesses

Trainer Tip • 6 minutes • 04/29/2019
Intermediate Skill Level
Trainer Tip
6 minutes
04/29/2019

Here's a quick tip to improve your empathy skills with empathy guessing.


Tips for the Road Series: Tip 12. Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 01/2016
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
01/2016

For many, the word “need” is associated with lack, neediness, and scarcity. These associations are the opposite of the meaning of needs in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In NVC, needs are the motivational energy of our innate wholeness and desire to grow, like the energy of a plant pushing it up through the soil and toward the sun.


NVC Life Hacks 32: Mediation in a formal setting

Video • 15 minutes • 11/8/2022
Beginner Skill Level
Video
15 minutes
11/8/2022

Mediation is a great skill to have whether it's for your personal relationships or in the workplace. We look at four different techniques and their benefits in a role-play between two neighbours discussing a dispute.


Looking at “Shoulds”

Audio • 22 minutes • 10/2007
Beginner Skill Level
Audio
22 minutes
10/2007

Using real-life examples from class participants, Sylvia Haskvitz demonstrates the life-changing results of clarifying the needs underlying "shoulds."


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