NVC Resources on Intention

Learning How to Listen

Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 01/2018

Article
3 - 5 minutes
01/2018

Listening is a cornerstone of dialogue and a powerful metaphor for spiritual practice. When we’re willing and able to listen, we open a conduit that allows connection and understanding to happen.

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Sharing Power

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 39 minutes • 12/29//2010

Audio
39 minutes
12/29//2010

Jim and Jori discuss sharing power through exploring our experience of having and not having power, how we make choices about our power and examining our relationship to power itself.

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Transforming Complaint

with Jim & Jori Manske

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 08/2020

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
08/2020

Trainer Tip: NVC-based social change naturally emerges from “a certain kind of spirituality”, a quality of spiritual clarity. Intuitions and impulses arising from spiritual clarity are more likely to support sustainable systems. Read on for how to bring more of this in, and ways to transform your complaint into commitment.

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Experience More Joy and Success at Work

with Dian Killian, PhD, Gregg Kendrick, Martha Lasley, Mary Mackenzie, Mel Sears, Wes Taylor

Audio • 57 minutes • 10/30/2013

Audio
57 minutes
10/30/2013

If you’d like to bring more joy and fun into your workplace, listen to this trainer dialogue for NVC tips and tools from some of the leading experts in the industry.

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NVC and Social Change

with Alan Rafael Seid

Audio • 1 hour, 24 minutes • 06/2008

Audio
1 hour, 24 minutes
06/2008

Listen to this telecourse recording with CNVC Certified Trainer, Alan Seid, to explore what is meant by social change in the context of NVC, and learn how Nonviolent Communication can be a powerful ally for creating social change.

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How to Enjoy Your Family Dinner

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 49 minutes • 12/16/2013

Audio
49 minutes
12/16/2013

If you dread family gatherings because of family tensions, you can find ways to excavate through piles of hardened judgments and hopelessness, build on your inner strength, and engage with family conflicts with open-hearted curiosity, greater presence, and connecting with what really matters to everyone.

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How to Survive the Holidays: 6 Communication Tips

with Oren Jay Sofer

Article • 6 - 10 minutes • 12/18/2018

Article
6 - 10 minutes
12/18/2018

For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument?

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Marshall Rosenberg's Vision of Social Change

with Rachelle Lamb

Article • 12 - 18 minutes • 12/2017

Article
12 - 18 minutes
12/2017

What could be, more often than not, overlooked when we think about or represent NVC or Marshall Rosenberg's work? This article busts some commonly held ideas and approaches to NVC. It challenges us to widen the lens of what it really means to be "life-serving", or speaking and hearing the "language of life". And it also speaks to how thinking can deepen feeling and relatedness...

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From Obedience and Shame to Freedom and Belonging: Transforming Patriarchal Paradigms of Child-Rearing in the Age of Global Warming

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 33 pages • 6/2017

Article
33 pages
6/2017

What will it take to reclaim our fundamental relatedness with all things alive, surrender our attempts to control nature, and find a way of living that averts or mitigates the worst possible catastrophes awaiting us while it's still possible?

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Overcoming Patriarchy 5-7-2017

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 12 minutes • 05/07/2017

Audio
1 hour, 12 minutes
05/07/2017

The focus on patriarchy emerges from the understanding that patriarchy plays a foundational role in everything. Yes, I mean it: everything. Patriarchy is not the same as sexism; patriarchy is to sexism very much what structural racism is to (interpersonal) racism: it's a system that runs independently of any one person's attitudes or behaviors. Join Miki for her first in a series of discussions...

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How to Create a “Living” Organization

with Gregg Kendrick

Audio • 1 hour, 5 minutes • 05/15/2014

Audio
1 hour, 5 minutes
05/15/2014

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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Applying NVC to Social Change Movements

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 50 minutes • 03/06/2014

Audio
50 minutes
03/06/2014

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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Creating Collaborative Organizations

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 55 minutes • 05/16/2014

Audio
55 minutes
05/16/2014

Miki will take you step-by-step through four vital systems that support radical collaboration and foster meaning. You’ll learn how to design a decision making process, create clear statements of intent, and create a process for resolving conflict.

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Financial Freedom and Integrity (8 Session Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 7 hours, 32 minutes • 12/06/2011

Audio
7 hours, 32 minutes
12/06/2011

Jim and Jori Manske went from poverty to financial independence in 8 years, and they’re making the process they used available to you! Please join them in this inspiring 8-session program to transform your relationship with money, scarcity and abundance.

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Financial Integrity: Your Money AND Your Life (6 Session Course)

with Alan Rafael Seid

Audio • 6 hours, 18 minutes • 05/03/2010

Audio
6 hours, 18 minutes
05/03/2010

CNVC Certified Trainer Alan Seid guides you to create a relationship with money that is clear, empowered and non-stressful. In which money plays a purposeful role in helping you create your ideal life, rather than unconsciously undermining your ability to achieve your dreams.

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Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out (6 Session Course)

with Mary Mackenzie

Audio • 5 - 7 hours • 10/17/2018

Audio
5 - 7 hours
10/17/2018

Ever wish you knew how you might experience more choice when you've been triggered, instead of being trapped in old habits and unmet needs? Wish you could REALLY heal old internal messages that tell you you're not good enough… not loveable… or not deserving? Join veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Mary Mackenzie, for this 6-session course designed to deepen your ability to connect with self and...

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Responding to the Call of Our Times - What's happening now?

with Miki Kashtan

Video • 48 minutes • 11/17/2018

Video
48 minutes
11/17/2018

I love the insights, resources, and inspiration I get from this course. It gives you a glimpse into the support Miki offers around deepening the practice of nonviolence in thought, word, and action. —Lore Baur, NVCA Course Coordinator, CNVC Certified Trainer. Miki is sharing what that means "Responding to the Call of our Time" for her and invites us to feel that call. This video illustrates how...

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Two Self-Empathy Exercises

with Mary Mackenzie

Video • 44 minutes • 11/18/2018

Video
44 minutes
11/18/2018

This session is from the NVC Academy's 2017 Telethon. Listen in as Mary offers two experiential self-empathy exercises: I Love It When, and What Do I Want / Why Do I Want It. Deepen your ability to connect with self — novel and effective ways to engage the process of Self-Empathy!

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Open-Hearted Disagreement

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 minutes • 03/13/2011

Audio
6 minutes
03/13/2011

Miki demonstrates how to work with judgmental thinking, offering a two-step process to shift from right/wrong thinking about our disagreements to a more open-hearted state of being.

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Understanding The Difference Between Life-Serving Boundaries And Threats

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

Practice Exercise • 4 - 6 minutes • 12/30/2021

Practice Exercise
4 - 6 minutes
12/30/2021

When someone's behavior costs us, we may attempt to negotiate as much as possible. After some rounds of this, if there's no change we may reach a tolerance limit. So we may set a boundary for self care and clarity about what's unworkable. But depending on intentions and the way its said, this may or may not be a punishment to get even. Here, clarity about intentions, feelings, needs, actions...

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NVC Resources on Intention