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NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing

NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing

NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing

with Gina Cenciose
Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 02:48 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Video
02:48 hours:minutes
In this inspiring video, Gina Cenciose, CNVC Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and Instructor, offers an in-depth view of the distinctions and similarities between NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing (also known as IRF and Focusing).
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The Wheel of Awareness

The Wheel of Awareness

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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Are You Living Your True Potential?

Are You Living Your True Potential?

Are You Living Your True Potential?

with Mary Mackenzie
Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 5-8 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 5-8 minutes
How can we live up to our true potential, a life filled with relationships and experiences that truly meet our needs? In this article, Mary offers us a way to bring about inner transformation that can lead to seeing ourselves, others and life differently -- for greater agency, empowerment and choice.
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Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution (complete course)

Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution (complete course)

Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution (complete course)

with Kelly Bryson
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 7-10 hours
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
7-10 hours
Join Kelly Bryson and go Psychologically and Spiritually Spelunking into your own Caverns of Consciousness, using the inner mining tools of NVC Self-Empathy, Progoff Journaling processes, Focusing, and individual work. Get self-empathy tools that will help you rejuvenate yourself and your relationships. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.
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Anatomy of a Trigger: Change Your Focus and Improve the Outcome

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

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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NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

with Dian Killian
All Skill Levels • Article • Read time: 9 - 14 minutes
All Skill Levels
Article
Read time: 9 - 14 minutes
Some people in the NVC community consider the words "privilege" and "power" triggering and/or evaluative. From this perspective, how can the concepts of "privilege" and "power" be considered part of the NVC teaching? This writing piece examines the power and privilege debate. It also discusses what the author sees as Marshall Rosenberg and Gandhi's stance on the subject...
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Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (Complete Course)

Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (Complete Course)

Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (Complete Course)

with Kathleen Macferran
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 05:26 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
05:26 hours:minutes
Bask in this telecourse recording with Kathleen Macferran and explore ways to nurture and maintain greater depths of joy by focusing on gratitude. The reward? To increase your ability to live fully present to the joy in life, even in the midst of pain. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.
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Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication - Part 1 of 2

Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication - Part 1 of 2

Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication - Part 1 of 2

with Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 15 - 23 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Article
Read time: 15 - 23 minutes
By focusing on NVC process and practice without factoring in the interdependent, systemic dimension we unwittingly diminish the power of NVC. We reinforce the dominant paradigm, rather than challenging it -- making NVC one more tool for compliance. NVC principles can turn against its own purpose in cruel ways. NVC could also empower social change. We'll need our attention on this matter if we...
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Practicing Non-Reactivity

Practicing Non-Reactivity

Practicing Non-Reactivity

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 3 - 5 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 3 - 5 minutes
For this practice assume that reactivity is arising any time you are distracted and not enjoying something. Practice throughout the day by focusing for a few moments on something specific that you find pleasing. Notice the sensation of joy or pleasure in your body, and hold attention there longer than usual. This interrupts tension and contraction. Keep remembering to do this. When you go too...
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A Talk About Needs

A Talk About Needs

A Talk About Needs

with Mary Mackenzie
Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:10 hours:minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:10 hours:minutes
"Everything someone does or says is an attempt to meet a need," says CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie. Once you gain skills at living in a "needs-consciousness" you will literally change your life and improve all of your relationships.
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From Obedience and Shame to Freedom and Belonging: Transforming Patriarchal Paradigms of Child-Rearing in the Age of Global Warming

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

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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Naturalizing NVC Language Series: I Don't Know Whether to Express Myself or Offer Empathy

Naturalizing NVC Language Series: I Don't Know Whether to Express Myself or Offer Empathy

Naturalizing NVC Language Series: I Don't Know Whether to Express Myself or Offer Empathy

with Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 00:05 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Video
00:05 hours:minutes
CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan discusses how focusing on connection and care can guide us in expressing honestly and offering empathy.
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Developing Your Tracking Skills (Part 2)

Developing Your Tracking Skills (Part 2)

Developing Your Tracking Skills (Part 2)

with Mary Mackenzie
Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 00:10 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Video
00:10 hours:minutes
Mary continues her discussion of tracking skills, focusing on tracking requests, agreements with the group and tracking time. Mary also examines how to monitor the purpose of the session, discerning if and when to shift the agreement about the purpose for meeting. Mary closes with some final helpful tips to hone your tracking skills.
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From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (2017 Telethon)

From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (2017 Telethon)

From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (2017 Telethon)

with Roxy Manning
Beginner Skill Level • Video • 40 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Video
40 minutes
Finding ways of connecting across differences can be challenging and confusing — Join Roxanne Manning for an exploration and discussion of the concepts she's found helpful for navigating these kinds of difficult situations and enrich your life!
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