Somatic Practices for Embodying NVC
Video
9 minutes
How do you build new learning paths and change old practices? Listen as David presents the elements of somatic practice — including those that build new learning paths — and discover where that learning “sweet spot” is!
Dealing with Loss: Session 5
Video
19 minutes
Have you been struggling with deep feelings (your own or others) around the United States’ turbulent gun control issues? Kristin’s gentle, thoughtful, and direct exploration and discussion may offer you both comfort and relief.
Time Travel Empathy
Video
7 minutes
One of the tools that help heal trauma is Time Travel Empathy. This process contributes to settling the energy field around a tangled trauma knot, which enables the trauma to become an integrated memory and part of life. Listen in as Sarah explains.
Creating Real Dialogue and Healthy Relationships
Video
13 minutes
Learn how to cultivate presence and intention, key aspects of healthy relationships! Presence grows from learning to notice energy and emotion in your body, and intention drives your conversations.
ZENVC Exercise
Audio
12 minutes
In this awareness exercise, Jesse approaches NVC from a Tai Chi or Zen perspective, enabling you to witness what is in relationship to a specific focus. He draws attention to the lived experience of an object rather than using words as a substitute for the felt experience. Listen in.
Embracing Your Wounded Child
Video
45 minutes
Martha firmly believes in the old adage, "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." Why? Because your wounded child carries all your burdens, and can tell you exactly what they need in order to find healing! Listen.
Guiding Questions
Learning Tool
1 - 2 minutes
These guiding questions will help you review your motives and approach before engaging in especially important conversations. Carry it with you, share it with the other person if possible, and make a decision to stay on track instead of getting pulled into old speaking and listening habits that aren't working.
Things We Know and Forget
Learning Tool
1 - 2 minutes
Here's a list of 13 reminders to help you prepare for a challenging dialogue...
Four Steps of Nonviolent Communication
Learning Tool
2 - 3 minutes
This is 2 pages. The first page summarizes each of the four steps of the NVC model and the second page describes the ways in which our language alienates us from ourselves and each other.
Needs & Feelings List
Learning Tool
2 - 3 minutes
This two page learning tool contains lists of needs, feelings, faux feelings, and feelings that might be mixed with thoughts...