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Inspiring Organizations and Businesses to Consider NVC

Advanced Skill Level • Video • 00:25 hours:minutes

Advanced Skill Level
Video
00:25 hours:minutes

In this brief but inspiring 3-part video series Gregg Kendrick, CNVC Certified Trainer and business leader, shares his experiences of embracing NVC within several organizations over several years.

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The Essentials of Using NVC in Business

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:05 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:05 hours:minutes

Miki responds to a 2014 NVC in Business Conference participant’s question concerning the focus on needs over other aspects of NVC in business communication.

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Hit the Ground Running: How to Build and Sustain your NVC Business (Session 1)

with Dian Killian

Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 01:10 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Video
01:10 hours:minutes

Listen in as Dian shares her vision for spreading NVC through the world, and engages with participants in sharing their visions, and the areas in which they are seeking support. This session stresses the value of visioning work.

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How to Create a “Living” Organization

with Gregg Kendrick

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:05 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:05 hours:minutes

Listen to Mary Mackenzie interview Gregg Kendrick and one of his clients to learn how to successfully introduce NVC into an organization that is unfamiliar with the concept. Gregg’s client, Dale Neikirk, will be sharing how NVC has supported and improved the results of his insurance company, through Gregg’s masterly facilitation.

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Covert Compassion

with Jeff Brown

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:07 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:07 hours:minutes

Interested in bringing NVC consciousness to your workplace, but want to use a natural and conversational way of speaking? Listen in as Jeff describes three specific skills you can apply immediately: #1: How to express your understanding of a co-worker’s needs; #2: How to apply the three dimensions of needs in a business setting; and #3: How to make a Symbiotic Request that acknowledges holding...

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Anatomy of a Trigger: Change Your Focus and Improve the Outcome

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 7-10 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 7-10 minutes

When you or anyone is upset, what could underneath it all? There may be more than is immediately visible. This article invites us to explore what it looks like to inquire deeper, take self-responsibility, examine our assumptions, attachments, interpretations, and "certainties" that could be hidden behind the needs that are aching to be attended to...

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Experience More Joy and Success at Work

with Dian Killian, PhD, Gregg Kendrick, Martha Lasley, Mary Mackenzie, Mel Sears, Wes Taylor

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:57 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:57 hours:minutes

If you’d like to bring more joy and fun into your workplace, listen to this trainer dialogue for NVC tips and tools from some of the leading experts in the industry.

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Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:06 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:06 hours:minutes

In most business environments, purpose holds a higher priority than connection. Listen to Miki discuss the strategy of using minimum connection to remain true to the purpose at hand, and how the purpose of empathy may differ in the workplace.

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Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

with Lorraine Aguilar

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:08 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:08 hours:minutes

Lorraine perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from “What’s wrong with them?” to “What's important to me?”

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Workplace Series: Two Strategies for Adapting NVC into the Workplace

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:06 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:06 hours:minutes

Listen to Miki discuss two strategies for bringing NVC into the workplace in ways most likely to be well received. First Miki explains why it's best to focus more on needs than feelings in business environments. Second, she talks about unpacking needs into phrases as a way of enhancing workplace connection.

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From Obedience and Shame to Freedom and Belonging: Transforming Patriarchal Paradigms of Child-Rearing in the Age of Global Warming

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • 33 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
33 pages

What will it take to reclaim our fundamental relatedness with all things alive, surrender our attempts to control nature, and find a way of living that averts or mitigates the worst possible catastrophes awaiting us while it's still possible?

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The Empathy Factor in Workplaces Where People Thrive (Complete Course)

with Gregg Kendrick and Marie Miyashiro

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 4 - 6 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
4 - 6 hours

How is empathy in the workplace a professional skill? If you are ready to learn why and how empathy is the critical factor to more productivity, profitability and collaboration in the workplace, this recording is for you! The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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Creating Collaborative Organizations

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:55 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:55 hours:minutes

Miki will take you step-by-step through four vital systems that support radical collaboration and foster meaning. You’ll learn how to design a decision making process, create clear statements of intent, and create a process for resolving conflict.

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How do I bring NVC into a job that isn't suited for NVC?

with Jeff Brown

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 00:05 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:05 hours:minutes

What if you work in construction or someplace that you are concerned would not to be open to bringing in Nonviolent Communication(NVC)? The answer depends on what you mean when you say, "Bring NVC into business."

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Reframing OFNR for the Workplace

with Dian Killian

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:07 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:07 hours:minutes

Listen in as Dian reframes the 4 steps of NVC (observations, feelings, needs, requests) into everyday words you might hear at work. This training segment is free for all to enjoy.

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Interdependence vs. Dependence/Independence

with Mary Mackenzie

Intermediate Skill Level • Trainer Tip • Read time: 1-2 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Trainer Tip
Read time: 1-2 minutes

Trainer tip: NVC consciousness recognizes interdependence. In this process each person is autonomous; everyone's needs matter; people have choice and responsibility for their actions; there's abundance, and a valuing of coming together. The dependence / independence paradigm assumes we either need someone else to be whole -- or we don’t need others at all. Commit to living autonomously. Notice...

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Feelings and Needs Cards

with Free to Be Parents

Beginner Skill Level • Learning Tool • N/A

Beginner Skill Level
Learning Tool
N/A

These downloadable cards are graciously offered to help busy parents who want more time and less struggle.

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Tips for the Road Series: Tip 8. Practice Self-Empathy with Your Whole Body

with Eric Bowers

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 1 page

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 page

In our fast-paced, busy lives it is tempting to practice NVC mostly with the left hemisphere of the brain, thinking through the steps quickly without slowing down to connect more deeply with feelings and needs. Don't miss an opportunity to integrate the hemispheres of the brain and the valuable information from the neural networks in the heart and gut.

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NVC Mediation Level 1 Training: Mediating Conflict for Yourself and Others (Complete Course)

with John Kinyon

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 11 - 14 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
11 - 14 hours

This telecourse recording provides an experience with the language, skills and consciousness of NVC applied to mediating all types of conflict whether you are one of the people in conflict or you are supporting others in conflict. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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Introductory Skill Level
Learning Tool
N/A

The NVC Circle of Life is a mandala illustrating the process and consciousness of Nonviolent Communication. Mandala literally means "sacred circle" and symbolizes wholeness, balance and harmony.

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