Articles (270)
Are You Living Your True Potential?
with Mary Mackenzie
Article • 5-8 minutes • 01/2010
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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 --…
Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements
Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements
Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements
Article • 23-35 mins • 8/2018
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In this transcript, clinical psychologist and organizational consultant, Roxy Manning, PhD, offers ways for us to increase our capacity to (1) See things that we otherwise wouldn't; (2) Bring more relevance to our groups, organizations and social change movements; (3) Talk openly about microaggressions: statements or…
Don't Take It Personally
with Rachelle Lamb
Article • 10 - 15 minutes • 04/2018
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When we don't like what someone is saying to us, sometimes people encourage us to hear their needs, and "not take it personally" -- and we're inclined to agree. Could "not taking it personally" close our hearts and awareness to others, life and ourselves? Rachelle…
Can Needs Be Harmful?
with Rachelle Lamb
Article • 7 - 10 minutes • 06/15/2017
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06/15/2017
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06/15/2017
Rachelle Lamb invites us to consider how our well being is impacted by what we choose to put at the center of our narrative regarding our needs. And how that affects whether or not we get closer to truly serving life and compassion...
Needs: A Foundation of Inner Freedom, Empowerment and Peace
Needs: A Foundation of Inner Freedom, Empowerment and Peace
Needs: A Foundation of Inner Freedom, Empowerment and Peace
with Eric Bowers
Article • 3 -5 minutes • 2005
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The human needs that we all share are the foundation of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process because it is in connecting to needs that we find inner freedom, empowerment and compassion.
"I'm Not Good Enough" and Other Leadership Myths
with Roxy Manning
Article • 7-11 mins • 1/2010
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Do you yearn to step forward in leadership, but know you're holding back? Clinical psychologist, organizational consultant, and speaker, Roxy Manning, PhD, shows us that more than external factors, its our internal beliefs and fears that provide the main barrier to moving forward. She does this…
There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Strategy
with Jim Manske
Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 11/2017
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11/2017
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11/2017
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…
Celebrating Mourning
with Christine King
Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 2005
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In a recent vacation in a Mexican village, I was surprised to find myself in the midst of a community in mourning. Two days before I came, a 21-year-old girl had died in a car accident. Everyone in the town knew her and was openly…
Creating Peace and Change: A Multi-Level Approach
with Dian Killian
Article • 12 - 18 minutes • 1/2018
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1/2018
Why does NVC practice, and NVC training/coaching, appear to be not enough to bridge divides between people? This article takes a look at the trickle down effect of our societal conditioning, what we can add to our NVC lense, and what we can do "upstream"…
Why Don’t They Get It?
with Roxy Manning
Article • 5 - 8 minutes • 08/2018
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What can we do when someone tells us we're contributing to a pattern we're genuinely not seeing (nor experiencing)? What makes these patterns visible to some people but not others? This article addresses these things by talking about what to factor in when receiving feedback;…