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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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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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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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Expressing Anger Peacefully

with Raj Gill

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:16 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:16 hours:minutes

In this prerecorded telecourse, Raj Gil uses an interactive dialogue and proven exercises to help you develop a profoundly healthy response to anger, right in the moment.

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Dialogues with Our Shame

with Giorgos Tsitsirigkos

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 45 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
45 minutes

During this session, Giorgos will walk you through a series of short, meditative practices and exercises designed to help you practice noticing, experiencing, and bringing shame to light — transforming it from a burden to a playful fellow as well as a portal to self-knowledge and internal freedom. You'll discover how the deep power of human connectedness can dilute the fogginess of sensitive...

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Self-Empathy: Healing From the Inside Out (2017)

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 00:44 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:44 hours:minutes

This session is from the NVC Academy's 2017 Telethon. Listen in as Mary offers two experiential self-empathy exercises: I Love It When, and What Do I Want / Why Do I Want It. Deepen your ability to connect with self — novel and effective ways to engage the process of Self-Empathy!

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Living the Self-in-Life (Part 1)

with Robert Gonzales

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:30 hours:minutes

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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Taste of Compassionate Leadership Series: From Flipping Your Lid to Flipping the Script

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:00 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:00 hours:minutes

Join Jim Manske for practice exercises that will help you navigate away from reactivity toward a more compassionate way of being in the world.

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Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:52 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:52 hours:minutes

CNVC Certified Trainers Jim and Jori Manske show you how to tune into the "Gratitude Channel," sharing exercises and practices to hone your awareness toward gratitude.

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Self-Empathy Basics

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 00:29 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:29 hours:minutes

Mary Mackenzie, an internationally renowned CNVC Certified Trainer, demonstrates two exercises that will help you learn fast “on the run” self-empathy techniques. The video includes practical techniques to guide you toward noticing your physical sensations, feelings and needs.

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Fearless Loving and Living (Part 4)

with Kelly Bryson

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:16 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:16 hours:minutes

Kelly Bryson, veteran and loved CNVC Certified Trainer, brings decades of experience to help you jumpstart your Mastery of Fear by using his unusual blend of experiential exercises, humor, empathy, original songs and stories, transformational truth telling, creativity and FRED (Frequency Resonation Energy Dynamics).

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Fearless Loving and Living (Part 3)

with Kelly Bryson

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:24 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:24 hours:minutes

Kelly Bryson, veteran and loved CNVC Certified Trainer, brings decades of experience to help you jumpstart your Mastery of Fear by using his unusual blend of experiential exercises, humor, empathy, original songs and stories, transformational truth telling, creativity and FRED (Frequency Resonation Energy Dynamics).

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