Practice, Practice, Practice
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
10/28/2005
Trainer Tip: Practicing NVC in situations that are not emotionally charged can give you valuable practice to help you maintain a compassionate consciousness when circumstances are charged. It can help you stay in that consciousness for a longer period of time. You can also practice by naming the needs that you got met in the situations you enjoy.
Why Can't People Just Live Peacefully With Each Other?
Why Can't People Just Live Peacefully With Each Other?
Why Can't People Just Live Peacefully With Each Other?
Article
8 - 12 minutes
4/2016
Perhaps human violence persists because we believe that violence is inevitable and there's nothing we can do about it -— even though there is notable evidence that this is likely not true. Read on for some research and theory on how cultures evolve to be collaborative or violent. Plus, learn benefits of collaboration and downsides to force, punishment, and control. These provide implications for how we might move towards a culture of more peace.
Avoiding “Right Fights”
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
10/05/2005
Trainer Tip: Ready to start a fight because you're right? Consider another strategy.
Finding Freedom In Marriage
Practice Exercise
4 - 6 minutes
9/19/2022
Marriage can be seen as a limit on freedom. Ideas of compromise collude with this view. Instead, notice when your "yes" to your partner is laden with obligation, duty, guilt, fear, or an attempt to win love or approval, and how it's not a truly free "yes". True freedom is different from compulsion, and doesn't conflict with other needs. When have you experienced true freedom? What conditions support your access to freedom?
Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
01/04/2005
Trainer Tip: We can improve our relationships by focusing our attention first on connection instead of other stragegies.
Creating Peace and Change: A Multi-Level Approach
Article
12 - 18 minutes
1/2018
Why does NVC practice, and NVC training/coaching, appear to be not enough to bridge divides between people? This article takes a look at the trickle down effect of our societal conditioning, what we can add to our NVC lense, and what we can do "upstream" when NVC doesn't seem to be enough. Additionally, the article talks about unseen constraints that men, women and minority groups face in organizational settings...
Nonviolence In The Face of Rape or Assault
Article
1 - 2 minutes
12/2016
Here's a brief anecdote showing how one woman was able transform a situation, where a man was about to assault or rape her. She responded in a creative way that lead them both to see each others' humanity -- navigating them both to safety. As part of her ingenuity he ended up spending the night in her house, in another room.
3 Key Principles for Successful Needs Based Negotiation
3 Key Principles for Successful Needs Based Negotiation
3 Key Principles for Successful Needs Based Negotiation
Article
5-7 minutes
09/2020
There are many layers of consciousness, knowledge, and skill that contribute to a successful negotiation. A successful negotiation is one where honor and connection lead to a way forward, and leads to a plan of action that considers and meets everyone's needs in that situation. Read on for three fundamental principles that help with successful needs-based negotiation.
Understanding and Transforming Anger
Article
6 - 9 minutes
01/2021
Anger can alert us that a need may be threatened. When anger lives in someone as a well-worn habit, it arises from a place of dissociation from one’s heart and is entangled with misinterpretations, a deep sense of threat, a history of pain, and social conditioning that isn’t life-serving. Read on for how intention, mindfulness, and specific actions can change that habit.
Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)
Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)
Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)
Audio
7 - 9 hours
1/20/2022
A chosen, interdependent world… In most cases, that's sure not the world we live in today, is it. But it could be the world we live in tomorrow. And you can choose to be part of bringing that better world to life – to be part of a gradual, joyful transformation – simply by using the dynamic, living power of Dialogue.