NVC Resources on Enemy Images

Enemy Images Process and Exercise

with Jeff Brown

Practice Exercise • N/A

Intermediate Skill Level
Practice Exercise
N/A

Ask the Trainer: "What guidance do you have for working with enemy images? Can you say some things about processes and/or exercises that can bring relief from this trap?"

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Enemy Images

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Introductory Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer tip: Judging others can affect our ability to communicate effectively with that person, or enjoy the relationship. Translating the static judgments (enemy images) we have of others into our own and others' feelings and needs can help us move into greater understanding, healing, and relief -- which can foster compassion and connection. Read on for more.

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What Are Enemy Images?

with Liv Larsson

Audio • 5 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
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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Dissolving Enemy Images

with Francois Beausoleil

Audio • 34 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
34 minutes

Francois shares the benefits of living in the Blame Free State, the state of the heart that has no enemies.

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Living Without Enemies

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 18 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
1 hour, 18 minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you.

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Martin Luther King Jr: Seeing the Redeeming Qualities in Others

with Eddie Zacapa

Article • Read time: 3 - 5 minutes

All Skill Levels
Article
Read time: 3 - 5 minutes

For us to open the door to seemlingly impossible societal changes, we need to find and transform enemy images in order to influence and collaborate with those who seem to be standing in our way. Here's an anecdote to show that this is what lead to Martin Luther King Jr's success in creating social change.

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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral

with John Kinyon

Audio • 1 hour, 11 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
1 hour, 11 minutes

Transforming anger is a key practice for returning to conscious presence and connection with self and others when triggered into a reaction. Join John Kinyon to learn this essential life skill.

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Taking on the World: How to Become a Change Agent (Complete Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 14 - 18 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
14 - 18 hours

Are you eager to translate your vision of a world where everyone’s needs matter into a tangible reality? Do you long to discover your unique role in responding to the challenges of our times? If, so join Miki for 12 sessions that will propel you on your way! The first session of this course is free for all to enjoy. nvctraining.com

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Healing and Reconciliation (Complete Course)

with Ike Lasater and John Kinyon

Audio • 7 - 9 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
7 - 9 hours

Old emotional hurts and pains can easily erupt when you’re in the throes of conflict – even if you’re the mediator. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could avoid all of that, and instead create more peace and happiness for yourself, your family, your co-workers and your community? The introductory session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy:

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Let it RAIN!

with Jim Manske

Article • Read time: 5 - 8 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
Read time: 5 - 8 minutes

This article outlines a four-part transformation process to help us recognize what's giving rise to our suffering and resentment -- and transform it into more freedom, creativity, and choice.

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Inner Maps of Conflict

with John Kinyon

Audio • 9 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
9 minutes

In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.

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Integral Awareness and Practice for NVC Practitioners: Deepening NVC with Ken Wilber’s Integral Framework (Complete Course)

with Alan Seid

Audio • 7 hours, 30 minutes

Advanced Skill Level
Audio
7 hours, 30 minutes

This telecourse recording gives NVC Practitioners a guided tour of Ken Wilber’s work, a meta-theory (theory of theories) that includes as much knowledge and wisdom from as many sources as possible. You will explore how NVC and Integral Framework mesh, overlap and complement each other.

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Connecting When Worldviews Conflict (Complete Course)

with John Kinyon and Matthew Rich

Audio • 6 hours

Advanced Skill Level
Audio
6 hours

John Kinyon and Matthew Rich examine the ways in which people’s worldviews can be different and why this often creates conflict. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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All in: Committing to a Life of Nonviolence (Complete Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 - 8 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
6 - 8 hours

How can we live life fully connected to the core values of nonviolence, no matter the circumstances, internal or external? Join Miki Kashtan as she shares the 17 core commitments that have served as a compass for herself and hundreds of others around the world as well. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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Nonviolence in the Face of Hatred

with Miki Kashtan

Article • Read time: 14 - 21 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Article
Read time: 14 - 21 minutes

When Anita's sister reveals that the Ku Klux Klan broke into her home and dragged her out into a field towards a burning cross, Anita's commitment to nonviolence is challenged. Here, Miki highlights practices and lessons from her story of inner struggle -- including an insight about how, even in extreme polarization, our freedom and healing is wrapped up in others' freedom and healing.

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Feedback without Criticism (Complete Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 8 - 11 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
8 - 11 hours

This 5-session telecourse recording is designed to support you in learning what makes giving and receiving feedback challenging and how you can turn these experiences into opportunities for learning, connection, and effective functioning. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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Houses of Healing: Kathleen Macferran at TEDx

with Kathleen Macferran

Video • 15 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Video
15 minutes

Are we really safer when we put those who harm others behind bars and forget about them? Explore turning our prisons into houses of healing and creating connections that lead to greater safety for our communities.

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How to Interrupt

with Jeff Brown

Trainer Tip • 3 - 5 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Trainer Tip
3 - 5 minutes

Ask the Trainer: "I feel a lot of fear or nervousness about approaching a neighbor who uses 'wastebasket talk.' Once she's engaged, there are only two techniques that interrupt the flow: leaving or interrupting."

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NVC Mediation Level 1 Training: Mediating Conflict for Yourself and Others (Complete Course)

with John Kinyon

Audio • 11 - 14 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
11 - 14 hours

This telecourse recording provides an experience with the language, skills and consciousness of NVC applied to mediating all types of conflict whether you are one of the people in conflict or you are supporting others in conflict. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

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Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (Complete Course)

with John Kinyon and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

Audio • 6 - 8 hours

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
6 - 8 hours

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. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy. nvctraining.com

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