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The Tao of Empathy: Practicing the Presence of Empathy and Four Elements of Empathic Connection

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 02:10 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
02:10 hours:minutes

In this recorded telecourse, John Kinyon, world renowned CNVC Certified Trainer, offers an overview and practice with four elements of empathy – presence, understanding/meaning, need language and deepening into needs.

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Developing Presence

with Jim & Jori Manske

Introductory Skill Level • Audio • 00:29 hours:minutes

Introductory Skill Level
Audio
00:29 hours:minutes

In this learning module, Jim and Jori Manske will lead you through a presence exercise, provide an overview of presence and give you daily exercises you can use to develop your “presence muscle.”

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Naturalizing NVC Language Series: Developing Empathic Presence

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 00:04 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Video
00:04 hours:minutes

CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan guides a participant to find his inner empathic presence.

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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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How to Open Your Holiday Presence

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:48 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:48 hours:minutes

In this telecourse recording, you will learn and practice self-awareness skills to fine tune your attention to met needs; savoring feelings of well-being; expressing these feelings to others; and receiving other people's messages of joy, gratitude, inspiration and more!

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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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An Introduction to Self-Compassion (Complete Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 11:12 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
11:12 hours:minutes

In this 10 session telecourse recording, world renowned CNVC Certified Trainer Robert Gonzales will help you discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence.

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It Takes a Community to Raise a Relationship

with Eric Bowers

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • 4 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
4 pages

Using his own life experience, Eric explores why we need support from others, what support might look like, and what blocks us from asking for support for our relationships.

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Inviting Depth in Conversation

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

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

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 3 - 5 minutes

Conversation can become more satisfying with depth. Depth is occurs when connection unfolds towards a depth of intimacy, presence, attunement, sensing -- and silent connection where another is attentively seen and heard. Inviting this level of sharing in conversation relies on at least three major elements: attentive silence, the desire to connect and be known, and focus on present moment...

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Using an Anchor in Self-Empathy

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 5 - 8 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 5 - 8 minutes

An anchor awakens parts of you that can access a bigger perspective. It calms and helps you engage presence for greater access to your skills. Also, it can reduce your reactivity, increase conscious relating, and support self-compassion. An anchor helps you get a little bit bigger than the reactivity you are experiencing so that you can access a wiser discernment. It is simple, and can be done...

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What’s Love Got To Do With It? A Thousand Ways to Say, “I Love You”

with Dian Killian

Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 6 - 9 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 6 - 9 minutes

The impulse to say "I love you" is an opportunity to check-in both with our level of presence (eg. are we saying it by rote?) and also with what we really mean in that moment (eg. what are the needs and real purpose deep beneath the word "love"?). This can invite us to explore a deeper, more heartfelt way of communicating and being...

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Five Core Practices For Meaningful Conversation

with Oren Jay Sofer

Applied NVC • Article • Read Time: 4 - 6 minutes

Applied NVC
Article
Read Time: 4 - 6 minutes

If you’re interested in improving your relationships, advancing in your career, or enhancing your capacity for change in life in general, communication is a powerful lever. Presence, listening, bringing curiosity and care, focusing on what matters, and pausing with silence, are all key. Read on for five foundational and advanced core practices you can start using today to improve your...

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An Introduction to Self-Empathy and Focusing

with Gina Cenciose

Beginner Skill Level • Video • 00:25:33 hours/minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:25:33 hours/minutes

In this brief video, CNVC Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and teacher, Gina Cenciose, teaches that our inner relationship is the basis for both Focusing and NVC work.

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Cultivating Gratitude

with Jim & Jori Manske

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

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

Here's a five-step 30 day practice to cultivate gratitude, using the practice of observations, needs, feelings, presence, vitality, awareness of contribution, sharing power and interdependence.

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I'll Work on Me, You Work on You

with Jim Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 5-8 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 5-8 minutes

As a beginner in NVC, you might find your attempts to practice your NVC only increases conflict, disconnection and upset in your interactions with people. Or perhaps people start seeing you as inauthentic. From there, you may find yourself sinking deeper into self-judgement. In this article, Jim Manske shows us how to shift these potential unintended outcomes, into deeper NVC consciousness that...

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Using NVC When the Going Gets Rough: Preparing Yourself Before Going In...

with Sylvia Haskvitz

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:33 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:33 hours:minutes

Explore and practice the internal work needed to maintain presence, peace of mind and connection with yourself and others before going into a highly charged or emotional situation.

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Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out (part 1)

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:20 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:20 hours:minutes

Gain clarity around empathy and self-empathy with this perceptive teaching. Develop your capacity for presence, for connection, for discerning what's important, and more.

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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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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral

with John Kinyon

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:11 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:11 hours:minutes

Transforming anger is a key practice for returning to conscious presence and connection with self and others when triggered into a reaction. Join John Kinyon to learn this essential life skill.

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Feast for the Soul: Awakening

with Kathy Ziola

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:53 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:53 hours:minutes

From the depths of internal winter to the melting open in the warm sunshine of spring to rest in the ocean of Spirit, this poetry is a journey of discovering deep Presence through the human experiences so many of us share.

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