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Hit the Ground Running: How to Build and Sustain your NVC Business

Hit the Ground Running: How to Build and Sustain your NVC Business

Hit the Ground Running: How to Build and Sustain your NVC Business

with Dian Killian
Video • 1 hour, 10 minutes • 
Video
1 hour, 10 minutes
Listen in as Dian shares her vision for spreading NVC through the world, and engages with participants in sharing their visions, and the areas in which they are seeking support. This session stresses the value of visioning work.
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NVC at Work: Transforming Organizations with Nonviolent Communication (6 Session Course)

NVC at Work: Transforming Organizations with Nonviolent Communication (6 Session Course)

NVC at Work: Transforming Organizations with Nonviolent Communication (6 Session Course)

with Dian Killian
Audio • 6 - 8 hours • 
Audio
6 - 8 hours
Listen and learn how to: Talk about NVC in a way that has meaning and relevance for companies and organizations, showing a clear ROI (return on investment). Draw on different applications of NVC for the workplace: addressing change in management, management issues / styles, morale / teamwork, employee retention, etc. Create a value-based training proposal (with different service and product...
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Covert Compassion

Covert Compassion

Covert Compassion

with Jeff Brown
Audio • 7 minutes • 
Audio
7 minutes
Interested in bringing NVC consciousness to your workplace, but want to use a natural and conversational way of speaking? Listen in as Jeff describes three specific skills you can apply immediately: #1: How to express your understanding of a co-worker’s needs; #2: How to apply the three dimensions of needs in a business setting; and #3: How to make a Symbiotic Request that acknowledges holding...
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Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

with Lorraine Aguilar
Audio • 8 minutes • 
Audio
8 minutes
Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from “What’s wrong with them?” to “What's important to me?”
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How to Create a “Living” Organization

How to Create a “Living” Organization

How to Create a “Living” Organization

with Gregg Kendrick
Audio • 1 hour, 5 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 5 minutes
Listen to this interview with Gregg Kendrick and one of his clients to learn how to successfully introduce NVC into an organization that is unfamiliar with the concept. Gregg’s client, Dale Neikirk, will be sharing how NVC has supported and improved the results of his insurance company, through Gregg’s masterly facilitation.
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Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 4 - 6 hours • 
Audio
4 - 6 hours
Most of us believe we are powerless at work – even if we’re the one “in charge.” This course offers you the opportunity to learn how to consciously change this mindset, and have a positive impact on workplace culture and attitudes along the way. Most of us believe we are powerless at work – even if we’re the one “in charge.” This course offers you the opportunity to learn how to consciously...
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Creating Peace and Change: A Multi-Level Approach

Creating Peace and Change: A Multi-Level Approach

Creating Peace and Change: A Multi-Level Approach

with Dian Killian
Article • 12 - 18 minutes • 
Article
12 - 18 minutes
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" when NVC doesn't seem to be enough. Additionally, the article talks about unseen constraints that men, women and minority groups face in...
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Thrive at Work

Thrive at Work

Thrive at Work

with Jeff Brown
Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 8 minutes
Many of us check our full selves at the door when entering our workplace. Would you like to learn how to apply NVC principles at work instead? In this session, Jeff details how you can step into greater authenticity at work!
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The Power of Difference: Work Challenges

The Power of Difference: Work Challenges

The Power of Difference: Work Challenges

with Roxy Manning
Audio • 5 minutes • 
Audio
5 minutes
How do you bring empathy and authenticity to uncomfortable work situations when there are so many layers of difference – especially if your primary reason for working is to feed your family and pay your bills? Listen in as Roxy opens participants' eyes to some of the many layers of difference we all deal with on a daily basis.
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Fear of Negative Consequences

Fear of Negative Consequences

Fear of Negative Consequences

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 8 minutes • 
Audio
8 minutes
Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible, and that nonviolence is a powerful alternative to our habitual Fight, Flight, Freeze responses.
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Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration

Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration

Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 8 minutes • 
Audio
8 minutes
Miki works with a course participant to transform begrudging attendance at a mandatory meeting into the possibility for collaboration, more connection where little is expected and focus on clarity of purpose for meeting in the first place.
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Managing Collectively: New, Empowered Ways to Get Things Done

Managing Collectively: New, Empowered Ways to Get Things Done

Managing Collectively: New, Empowered Ways to Get Things Done

with Dian Killian
Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 8 minutes
Enjoy Dian's overview of the 4-step model and its application to the workplace. Learn how NVC can help you: generate intrinsic motivation… discover creative solutions… create greater accountability and buy-in…reinforce behaviors you like and change others… and experience a LOT more fun, joy and aliveness at work!
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Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past: Social Change and Nonviolence - Introduction

Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past: Social Change and Nonviolence - Introduction

Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past: Social Change and Nonviolence - Introduction

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 1 hour • 
Audio
1 hour
Want things to change in your community, but feel frustrated or don’t know what to do? Miki’s intriguing overview of how to apply the principles of NVC to social change movements may have the exact blend of inspiration and ideas you’re seeking!
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