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Connecting Feelings and Needs

Connecting Feelings and Needs

Connecting Feelings and Needs

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: When we connect our feelings to our needs, we put ourselves in a postion to get our needs met and mourn when they aren't met. Here's a practical tip you can practice daily to improve the quality of your life.

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Committing to Full Understanding

Committing to Full Understanding

Committing to Full Understanding

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: There's one sure way to find hidden assumptions, stop and check it out!

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Avoiding “Right Fights”

Avoiding “Right Fights”

Avoiding “Right Fights”

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Ready to start a fight because you're right? Consider another strategy.

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Relating to the Value of Things Rather Than the Cost

Relating to the Value of Things Rather Than the Cost

Relating to the Value of Things Rather Than the Cost

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: The exchange of resources, that is, exchanging money for an item or service, is enhanced and better appreciated when we are connected to its personal value rather than its cost.

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Knowing Ourselves

Knowing Ourselves

Knowing Ourselves

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: The question is not what other people think of you, but what you think of yourself. Who are you, really? Take a moment to consider what you value.

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Being Honest About Our Anger

Being Honest About Our Anger

Being Honest About Our Anger

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary shares how staying present to our anger and finding the underlying feelings and needs can lead to deeper connection and more satisfying outcomes.

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NVC as a Strategy

NVC as a Strategy

NVC as a Strategy

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary explains how Nonviolent Communication, a process that distinguishes needs from strategies is also itself, a strategy.

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Protective Use of Force

Protective Use of Force

Protective Use of Force

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary explains the NVC principle known as the "protective use of force."

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Honest & Conscious Expression

Honest & Conscious Expression

Honest & Conscious Expression

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 56 minutes • 

Audio
56 minutes

Jim and Jori Manske explore the considerations of expressing ourselves honestly, considerations that lead to more fully conscious and nonviolent connections.

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Connecting With Your Husband

Connecting With Your Husband

Connecting With Your Husband

with Godfrey Spencer

Trainer Tip • 7 minutes • 

Trainer Tip
7 minutes

Ask the Trainer: My question is about wanting to empathize more with my husband. Sometimes we connect very deeply, other times he slips back into "jackal talk..."

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Conflict Improv: “I’m Bored”

Conflict Improv: “I’m Bored”

Conflict Improv: “I’m Bored”

with Christine King and Kelly Bryson

Video • 11 minutes • 

Video
11 minutes

In this amusing and inspiring video, CNVC Certified Trainers Kelly Bryson and Christine King engage in a role play about a parent talking to a seven year old daughter who is feeling bored.

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Workplace Series: Two Strategies for Adapting NVC into the Workplace

Workplace Series: Two Strategies for Adapting NVC into the Workplace

Workplace Series: Two Strategies for Adapting NVC into the Workplace

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 minutes • 

Audio
6 minutes

Listen to Miki discuss two strategies for bringing NVC into the workplace in ways most likely to be well received. First Miki explains why it's best to focus more on needs than feelings in business environments. Second, she talks about unpacking needs into phrases as a way of enhancing workplace connection.

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Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection

Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection

Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 minutes • 

Audio
6 minutes

In most business environments, purpose holds a higher priority than connection. Listen to Miki discuss the strategy of using minimum connection to remain true to the purpose at hand, and how the purpose of empathy may differ in the workplace.

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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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Workplace Series: The Distinction Between Giving Feedback and Wanting to be Heard

Workplace Series: The Distinction Between Giving Feedback and Wanting to be Heard

Workplace Series: The Distinction Between Giving Feedback and Wanting to be Heard

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 9 minutes • 

Audio
9 minutes

Listen to Miki make an important distinction between giving feedback, which is grounded in a desire to contribute to another, and our own need to be heard.

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Workplace Series: Supervisors Giving Feedback to Others

Workplace Series: Supervisors Giving Feedback to Others

Workplace Series: Supervisors Giving Feedback to Others

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 11 minutes • 

Audio
11 minutes

Creating a trusting connection and keeping the line of communication open are the primary prerequsites for giving feedback as a supervisor. Listen to Miki work with a course participant to ready herself for an upcoming feedback session.

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Practical Ideas to Keep Workplace Relationships Satisfying

Practical Ideas to Keep Workplace Relationships Satisfying

Practical Ideas to Keep Workplace Relationships Satisfying

with Sylvia Haskvitz

Article • 4 - 6 minutes • 

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Workplace relationships are complex. Each employee brings their unique self to work. Their background, perspective, emotional triggers, and working style. Add to this the dynamics of power relations, and the fact that often workplace communication now takes place at our computer keyboards rather than face-to-face. Sylvia Haskvitz offers practical tips to make today's complex workplace...

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The 4-Part Nonviolent Communication Process

The 4-Part Nonviolent Communication Process

The 4-Part Nonviolent Communication Process

with CNVC Account

Learning Tool • N/A • 

Learning Tool
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There are four components to the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) model, as developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. The 4-Part NVC Process can guide you to express how you are, or they can be used to empathically receive how another is.

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The Four D's of Disconnection

The Four D's of Disconnection

The Four D's of Disconnection

with Jim & Jori Manske

Learning Tool • 1 page • 

Learning Tool
1 page

Learn to recognize four forms of thinking and speaking that are likely to lead to disconnection.

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How to Open Your Holiday Presence

How to Open Your Holiday Presence

How to Open Your Holiday Presence

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 48 minutes • 

Audio
48 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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