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Self-Connection Exercise: Awareness

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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Self-Connection Meditation

with Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

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

Beginner Skill Level
Video
00:08 hours:minutes

CNVC Certified Trainer Stephanie Bachmann Mattei leads you through an 8 minute meditation designed to develop a more integrated body and feelings/needs awareness.

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Connecting with Ourselves: An NVC Foundation for Inner Trust and Freedom

with Inbal Kashtan

Beginner Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 4 - 6 minutes

True inner freedom arises from self-connection. Without self-connection, we're mostly acting from habits, and those habits do not necessarily attend to our own needs. Here's a practice you can explore in your daily life to deepen your relationship with yourself, and experience true choice and inner freedom.

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Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

with Inbal Kashtan and Miki Kashtan

Introductory Skill Level • Learning Tool • 3 pages

Introductory Skill Level
Learning Tool
3 pages

NVC practice is based on several key assumptions and intentions. When we live based on these assumptions and intentions, self-connection and connection with others become increasingly possible and easy, helping us contribute to a world where everyone’s needs are attended to peacefully.

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The Unconscious Mind Compared to the Conscious Mind

with Miki Kashtan

Advanced Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 2 pages

Advanced Skill Level
Trainer Tip
2 pages

Ask the Trainer: "I have the understanding that the unconscious is vast compared to conscious mind. When I state 'needs' how well can I depend on there being something beneath my awareness that is actually the motivation?"

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Apologizing in NVC Language

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:08 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:08 hours:minutes

In this brief audio, Jim Manske uses a live situation to demonstrate how to use the NVC process in an apology. Jim starts by identifying the four steps to self-connection before expressing your apology.

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What Could I Say or Do When Someone Does Not Talk?

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 1 page

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 page

Can you give me advice on what to do when people won't talk to me? I find it very difficult to discover what their needs are that aren't being met! Also, how can I be effective with people who don't actually want to think about why they're being the way they are?

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Valuing My Needs When I Habitually Don't

with John Kinyon

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

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:09 hours:minutes

Listen to John answer an NVC Multimedia Library member's question about what we can do when we habitually place other's needs ahead our own. Healing and change can be reached through compassionate self-connection, mourning and mindfulness.

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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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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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Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out (Complete Course)

with Mary Mackenzie

All Skill Levels • Audio • 5 - 7 hours

All Skill Levels
Audio
5 - 7 hours

Ever wish you knew how you might experience more choice when you've been triggered, instead of being trapped in old habits and unmet needs? Wish you could REALLY heal old internal messages that tell you you're not good enough… not loveable… or not deserving? Join veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Mary Mackenzie, for this 6-session course designed to deepen your ability to connect with self and...

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Vulnerability as a Spiritual Path

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • 3 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
3 pages

What is a good baby? If you have been raised in a Western culture, chances are you know the answer right away (whether or not you agree with it). A good baby is one that doesn't cry! The training against vulnerability starts very early in life.

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Mourning Our Disappointments

with Mary Mackenzie

Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 1 page

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 page

Trainer Tip: Taking time to mourn our regrets and unmet needs can lead to a deeper self-connection and feelings of peace.

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Hidden Needs

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Trainer Tip • 2 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Trainer Tip
2 pages

Ask the Trainer: "I've been feeling frustrated and angry quite a bit lately over very simple things. Can you help me get to the root of my hidden needs?"

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Moving From Blame to Self-Responsibility

with Miki Kashtan

Intermediate Skill Level • Article • 2 pages

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
2 pages

Often when someone else does something we don't like, it's easy to blame the other person. After all, we have all been trained to focus on fault when needs are not met. What can we do to shift that pattern?

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Facilitating Connection

with Jim & Jori Manske

Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 00:59 hours:minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
00:59 hours:minutes

Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable. This recording will demonstrate how the power of our honesty is enhanced by ending on a clear and present request.

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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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Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (Part 1)

with John Kinyon and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:09 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:09 hours:minutes

John and Stephanie combine mediating conflict, parenting and study of brain science to this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace.

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Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (Part 2)

with John Kinyon and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 01:09 hours:minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
01:09 hours:minutes

John and Stephanie combine mediating conflict, parenting and study of brain science to this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace.

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