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Staying Connected with Yourself While with Family

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:17 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:17 hours:minutes

This audio training with expert trainer Rita Herzog explores the NVC alternative to family relationships: stay grounded in your own needs and values so you are able to reach out with empathy to family members.

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How to Enjoy Your Family Dinner

with Miki Kashtan

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:49 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:49 hours:minutes

If you dread family gatherings because of family tensions, you can find ways to excavate through piles of hardened judgments and hopelessness, build on your inner strength, and engage with family conflicts with open-hearted curiosity, greater presence, and connecting with what really matters to everyone.

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Communicating with Family Across Political Divides

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:17 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:17 hours:minutes

CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan talks with radio show host Hollis Polk about strategies for communicating with family members whose political views oppose our own.

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Dialogue with Extended Family

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:14 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:14 hours:minutes

Many families are far more complex and varied than they used to be. In this recording, Miki works with participants, focusing on specific challenges they’re facing with family members. Listen In.

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How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:46 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:46 hours:minutes

This holiday, shift your focus from what disappoints you to the true whisperings of your heart. Compassion is an inside-outside process. In this telecourse recording, you will experience four simple tools for savoring your own precious needs, allowing you to experience greater compassion and harmony this holiday.

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How to Survive the Holidays: 6 Communication Tips

with Oren Jay Sofer

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read Time: 6 - 10 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
Read Time: 6 - 10 minutes

For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument?

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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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Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

with Roxy Manning

All Skill Levels • Article • Read time: 6 - 9 minutes

All Skill Levels
Article
Read time: 6 - 9 minutes

When we have few external resources (money, time, health connections, etc), we can still empower ourselves and one another. We can strengthen our internal resources, inspire people to join our cause, build solidarity, and influence others who have external resources to support us and our causes.

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There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Strategy

with Jim Manske

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 3 - 5 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
Read time: 3 - 5 minutes

In the face of needs that are still hungry to be satisfied, we can expand our view, plus generate ideas and creativity that can find new paths forward. Try these tips to transform our complaint into commitment for a change in strategy that works with needs...

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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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Considering the Needs of Other People

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 1 page

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 page

Trainer Tip: Mary expands on one of the basic principles of Nonviolent Communication: valuing everyone’s needs equally.

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Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

with Inbal Kashtan

All Skill Levels • Article • Read time: 16 - 24 minutes

All Skill Levels
Article
Read time: 16 - 24 minutes

This article aims to discuss shifting fully from power-over to sharing power in families; turning power struggles into dilemmas. It focuses on the topic of living in a partnership paradigm as a family...

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Financial Freedom and Integrity (Complete Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 07:32 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
07:32 hours:minutes

Jim and Jori Manske went from poverty to financial independence in 8 years, and they’re making the process they used available to you! Please join them in this inspiring 8-session program to transform your relationship with money, scarcity and abundance.

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NVC Life Hacks 5: Conflict

with Shantigarbha Warren

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 00:03 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:03 hours:minutes

Conflict occurs when disagreements undermine the sense of trust and safety in family, workplace, or community. Shantigarbha shares nine tips for addressing, and even transforming conflict.

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The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC (Complete Course)

with Ingrid Bauer

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 07:29 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
07:29 hours:minutes

As parents, we often face challenging situations on a daily basis and struggle to create what we most long for. In this 6 session telecourse recording, you will learn how Nonviolent Communication can support a family culture where cooperation, trust, and peace are nurtured, and children and parents can flourish together.

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"First Call for Children - the Power of my Dreams" NVC Workshop

with Gitta Zimmermann

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 001:10 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
001:10 hours:minutes

In October 2016, CNVC Certified Trainer Gitta Zimmerman held her 5th international workshop for people working with street children in Ruhpolding, Germany. This time most of the participants were already experienced, and we were merging more and more into a family. The workshop focus was on “mediation” and “entrepreneurship.

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Noticing What Is Important

with Mary Mackenzie

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

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

Trainer Tip: Where do you focus most of your life? Are there areas that you could reassess? Are you happy? Engage a new paradigm shift in your life.

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Connecting to Humanity

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 1 page

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 page

Trainer Tip: We can expand our connection to humanity by considering the many strategies people use to meet our common needs.

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Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

with Inbal Kashtan

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:04 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:04 hours:minutes

Please join us as we remember the work and life of Inbal Kashtan. She offered this parenting Q&A session in NVC Academy's 2013 Parenting Conference.

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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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