NVC Resources on Relationships

Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful

Audio • 30 minutes •

Audio
30 minutes

What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.

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Understanding I’m Not Responsible for Another's Feelings

with Jeff Brown

Trainer Tip • 2-3 minutes •

Trainer Tip
2-3 minutes

Ask the Trainer: "I understand that I'm not responsible for someone else's feelings, but my girlfriend doesn't. Do you have ideas for how I could get her to understand this concept?"

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Choice in the Face of Demands

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 8 minutes

No one likes demands. Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she provides tools to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic.

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Every Angry Message is a "Please"

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1-2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1-2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Anger can be an opportunity to hear the "Please" behind the words and create a path to resolve conflicts compassionately.

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Being Me and Loving You (4 Session Course)

with Kelly Bryson

Audio • 6 - 8 hours •

Audio
6 - 8 hours

It is time to create true transparency, empathy and trust in your intimate relationships! In this inspiring telecourse recording, Kelly Bryson combines humor, music, group readings and experiential exercises to help you realize the fulfilling and intimate relationships you long for.

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What About Psychopaths?

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Sometimes we want to avoid placing our love and trust in someone, to protect our hearts and our life energies. And so there are deeper questions that we can use to check whether we're in relationship with someone who doesn't have capacity to be in relationship with us (eg. “Do I have a sense of mattering in this relationship?”). Read on for more questions we use to assess our empathy and...

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Lasting Love – The Magic and Mechanics (5 Session Course)

with Mukti Jarvis

Audio • 3 hours, 49 minutes •

Audio
3 hours, 49 minutes

Join Linda Mia Mukte (formerly Rysenbry), CNVC Certified Trainer, for this uniquely powerful telecourse recording that blends NVC with Dr. Sue Johnson’s empirically validated work on adult love relationships called EFCT: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.

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What Are Enemy Images?

with Liv Larsson

Audio • 5 minutes •

Audio
5 minutes

In this compelling interview with Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer from Sweden, the NVC concept of enemy images — how they develop, what they represent and how they affect our relationships with others and self — is explored.

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7 Transformative Conversations

with Mukti Jarvis

Video • 18 minutes •

Video
18 minutes

What is essential to make a relationship thrive? Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Linda Mia Mukte (formerly Rysenbry) share seven types of conversations vital to healthy, flourishing intimate relationships.

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Staying Connected with Yourself While with Family

with Rita Herzog

Audio • 1 hour, 17 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 17 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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Key Facts About Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

with Puddledancer Press

Article • 7 pages •

Article
7 pages

Learn how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can improve the quality of your personal and professional relationships, one interaction at a time.

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NVC Life Hacks 1 : Partnership

with Shantigarbha Warren

Video • 3 minutes •

Video
3 minutes

This is the first in a series of tips on applying NVC to daily life. In this episode, Shantigarbha offers five tips for improving communication in relationships.

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Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution (6 Session Course)

with Kelly Bryson

Audio • 7-10 hours •

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.

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The Difference Between Needs and Requests

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Knowing the difference between what we need and what we want someone else to do about that need can have a profound impact on our relationships and our happiness.

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NVC Life Hacks 17: How to say I love you

with Shantigarbha Warren

Video • 5 minutes •

Video
5 minutes

Falling in love is quite an experience, especially when it comes to that moment of saying 'I love you'. So what happens once you're in a relationship but still need to express the way you feel? Sometimes people feel like just saying 'I love you' is too impersonal or unspecific. So in this Life Hack, we give you some tips on how Nonviolent Communication can help set the mood with your loved ones.

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Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

with Eric Bowers

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

What's really going on underneath the surface when we bring or encounter blame, judgements, pain -- and thereby the inability to empathize, be present, attuned, or responsive? Why does this happen even if one or more people in a relationship dynamic is working hard at bringing in an NVC response? This article addresses these and more questions from the perspective of how our brains are affected...

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Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

with LoraKim Joyner, DVM

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

Join LoraKim Joyner to investigate how merging science, the social and emotional intelligence of humans, animals and other species and Nonviolent Communication can bring a greater sense of belonging and wholeness to your life, and care and justice to the lives of others.

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The Shadow Side of Autonomy

with Rachelle Lamb

Article • 8 - 12 minutes •

Article
8 - 12 minutes

Could our "need for autonomy" be getting in the way of "partnership consciousness" (as NVC is sometimes called). Could "autonomy" also block healthy relationships with not only ourselves and with others, but also with the planet? This article invites us to consider how "autonomy" may colour our NVC practice at the peril of our critical values. Values such as our care for impact, shared...

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The Vortex of Submission (9 Session Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 9 hours, 55 minutes •

Audio
9 hours, 55 minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jori and Jim Manske in an exploration of how gratitude can enable you to remain more present moment to moment, thus enabling you to flourish in your life!

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The Future of Love (6 Session Course)

with Kelly Bryson

Audio • 8 - 10 hours •

Audio
8 - 10 hours

If you are tired of feeling dissatisfied, frustrated and hopeless about experiencing ease and joy in your intimate relationships, this course is for you! Please join CNVC Certified Trainer and long-time relationship expert, Kelly Bryson, in this course to rethink and relive your perception of love so you can actually feel love, let love in and be love.

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