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Developing Your Own Teaching Exercises in 8 Steps

Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 00:08 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Video
00:08 hours:minutes

Developing our own teaching exercises is a powerful consciousness-building process that eventually helps us clarify our own way of learning and to develop our unique style of teaching.

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Street NVC: "Street Ease" Exercise

with Dian Killian

Intermediate Skill Level • Practice Exercise • 30 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Practice Exercise
30 minutes

Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian guide and ease you into a more natural expression of empathy. This is a three person exercise. Listen in and then give it a try! This learning resource is free for all to enjoy until the end of March. nvctraining.com

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Self-Connection Exercise: Awareness

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:09 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:09 hours:minutes

Join Jim Manske as he leads you through a self-connection exercise to guide you toward welcoming whatever enters into your awareness.

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Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness

with Jim & Jori Manske

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

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:06 hours:minutes

Jim leads a self-connection exercise focused on how our lives are interwoven with people we love, acquaintances, people unknown to us, and even those who have come before us or will come after us.

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Enemy Images Process and Exercise

with Jeff Brown

Intermediate Skill Level • Practice Exercise • N/A

Intermediate Skill Level
Practice Exercise
N/A

Ask the Trainer: "What guidance do you have for working with enemy images? Can you say some things about processes and/or exercises that can bring relief from this trap?"

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Written Check-in and Self Connection Exercise

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • Read Time: 1-2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
Read Time: 1-2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Tap into feelings, needs and requests for greater self connection with the six steps in this worksheet.

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Core Beliefs and Gratitude Exercise

with Kathleen Macferran

Intermediate Skill Level • Practice Exercise • 2 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Practice Exercise
2 pages

Some of my core beliefs make experiencing gratitude difficult . For example, it’s difficult to celebrate others or myself when I think I have to prove my worth in order to be accepted. So much energy goes into proving myself, there’s little left for celebration.

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The Wheel of Awareness

with Gina Cenciose and Shulamit Berlevtov

Intermediate Skill Level • Practice Exercise • 00:11 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Practice Exercise
00:11 hours:minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainer and Certified Focusing Teacher Shulamit Berlevtov in this brief exercise called the Wheel of Awareness. This exercise will help you become aware of how to distinguish and differentiate your life experience.

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Increasing Presence Through Observations

with John Kinyon

Introductory Skill Level • Practice Exercise • 00:26 hours:minutes

Introductory Skill Level
Practice Exercise
00:26 hours:minutes

John Kinyon leads participants through two Observation Exercises to strengthen their ability to be present. Through the exercises, John distinguishes the difference between feelings, which are emotions felt inside the body, and observations which are witness to our experience.

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What’s Important to You?

with Penny Wassman

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • 2 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
2 pages

This exercise is most often the first activity in a beginning level workshop after the usual logistics/history/check-in. Penny Wassman experiences it as an opportunity for people to build connection with one another.

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Opening Hearts in Israel, Palestine, India and Sri Lanka

with Shantigarbha Warren

Beginner Skill Level • Article • 11 pages

Beginner Skill Level
Article
11 pages

CNVC Certified Trainer Shantigarbha Warren offers a report of his recent NVC training trip to Israel/Palestine, India and Sri Lanka and clarifies how NVC can support social change in three very different contexts. Included is an exercise, based on Gandhi’s teaching.

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Integration of Inner and Outer: Our Relationship to ALL of Life (Complete Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 6 - 9 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Video
6 - 9 hours

During this course, you'll deeply examine this process of blending and integrating your inner and outer selves. Not only will you explore various states of being, such as defensive / protective and being / essence, you'll: Delve into the primary levels of relationship: to others, to the world and to Life; Acquire tools for transforming resistance into unconditional acceptance; Experience the...

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Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (Complete Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 6 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Video
6 hours

If you're interested in learning specifically how and what you can do to live compassionately – with plenty of hands-on practice time – this course is for you. Observe actual demonstrations of Robert guiding participants through the transformational territory of healing and integration. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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The Heart of Conflict (Complete Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 08:50 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
08:50 hours:minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainers and Mediators Jori and Jim Manske in an exploration of using Nonviolent Communication in the context of Mediation and Conflict Resolution. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy. nvctraining.com

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Street NVC: Bringing Your NVC Practice into Everyday Life! (Complete Course)

with Dian Killian

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 3 - 4 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
3 - 4 hours

Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian show you how to easily step into the mindset of an NVC practice—the spirit of connection and collaboration—that will support you in authentically connecting with others. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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The Art and Science of Happiness (Complete Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 4 - 6 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
4 - 6 hours

What is it that enables us to thrive? How can we influence our capacity to live a meaningful and fulfilling life? Join Jim and Jori Manske in this exciting telecourse recording on the intersection of NVC and cutting-edge Positive Psychology, the science of human thriving. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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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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Being Me and Loving You (Complete Course)

with Kelly Bryson

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 6 - 8 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
6 - 8 hours

It is time to create true transparency, empathy and trust in your intimate relationships! In this inspiring telecourse recording, Kelly Bryson combines humor, music, group readings and experiential exercises to help you realize the fulfilling and intimate relationships you long for.

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Principles of Nonviolent Communication: Identifying Needs

with Mary Mackenzie

Introductory Skill Level • Video • 00:54 hours:minutes

Introductory Skill Level
Video
00:54 hours:minutes

Let this inspiring video guide you through exercises as if you are actually present at the workshop with Mary Mackenzie! The video opens with Mary leading you through an exercise that generates a physical experience of the NVC consciousness.

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Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:30 hours:minutes

During this very moving session, you'll dive into Robert's exercises for supporting connection to your true self as opposed to your conditioned self.

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