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Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty

Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty

Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 5 - 7 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Article
5 - 7 minutes
Even in a conflict, you can offer emotional safety without being enmeshed -- and you can do this without sliding into strategies to gain power over another. You can prioritize connection, express your intention, make space for mutuality, honestly reveal what you care about and propose a way forward. This means caring for your needs regardless of their response -- and mourning if their response...
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Confronting with Care: An Approach that Builds Trust

Confronting with Care: An Approach that Builds Trust

Confronting with Care: An Approach that Builds Trust

with Martha Lasley
Article • 7 - 10 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Article
7 - 10 minutes
People find confrontation inspirational when done with full compassion and intention to support. To do this, transform your own judgments or distress, come with useful content plus spot-on timing, and the best interests of the receiver in mind. Read on for questions you can ask yourself in preparation for this, and more.
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Colloquial NVC Options

Colloquial NVC Options

Colloquial NVC Options

with Miki Kashtan
Learning Tool • 2 pages
Intermediate Skill Level
Learning Tool
2 pages
How can we express ourselves in a way that supports a natural flow of connection while maintaining a focus on NVC consciousness? This handout from CNVC Certified Trainer, Miki Kashtan, offers seven options that support NVC enthusiasts in evolving from classical to colloquial NVC language.
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Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

with Christine King, Faye Landey, Liv Larsson, Mary Mackenzie and Rita Herzog
Audio • 1 hour, 24 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Audio
1 hour, 24 minutes
Please join us as we take a look at what disrupts our joy during the holidays… and discuss the delicious possibilities that abound when we declare our intention to "Greet the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart."
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Tips for the Road Series: Tip 7. Talk about Conflict When You’re Not in Conflict

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 7. Talk about Conflict When You’re Not in Conflict

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 7. Talk about Conflict When You’re Not in Conflict

with Eric Bowers
Trainer Tip • 4 - 6 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
4 - 6 minutes
Conflict is a normal and natural part of life. To varying degrees, it happens whenever two or more people consistently spend time together. Resolving conflict effectively and peacefully, in a way in which all parties feel respected and valued, does not feel natural for those of us who grew up with punitive, adversarial, or avoidant approaches to conflict. Eric offers some tips for approaching...
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Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 7 - 10 hours
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
7 - 10 hours
The focus of this 6-session class is on shifting the intention of your teaching from how to why while embodying the principles and practice of NVC every step of the way - from planning to delivery. The methodology Miki offers is to start with understanding what the people in your audience face in their environment, continue with what they might want to learn and how NVC principles can provide...
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Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 2 of 2)

Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 2 of 2)

Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 2 of 2)

with Mary Mackenzie and Roxy Manning
Article • 22-35 mins
All Skill Levels
Article
22-35 mins
In part two, of this two-part transcript, clinical psychologist and organizational consultant, Roxy Manning, Ph.D., offers a way we can help people from marginalized groups free more of their energy for greater joy, meaning and contribution to our groups, social change movements, and organizations. Roxy and Mary Mackenzie also show that while there's often that risk of inadvertently creating...
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Angry and Taken Advantage of

Angry and Taken Advantage of

Angry and Taken Advantage of

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 4-6 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Article
4-6 minutes
Finding your power in seemingly powerless situations doesn't mean denying what happened, your feelings, your needs, nor the behavior of others that didn't meet needs. It does mean reexamining those situations with the intention to compassionately look for your contribution and for clues to your hidden perceptual biases. Read on to learn about about finding these clues, and more.
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Empathy vs. Investigation

Empathy vs. Investigation

Empathy vs. Investigation

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 4-6 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Article
4-6 minutes
To tell the difference between empathy and investigation, watch for distinctions along four different dimensions: energy, subject, intention and trust. These distinctions can help us engage awareness and skill to meet your needs and respond to others’ needs in more direct ways. The more you meet your needs in conscious and direct ways, the more present you can be for others. Read on for more...
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Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 1 of 2)

Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 1 of 2)

Acknowledging the Impact of Identity Within Social Change Movements (Part 1 of 2)

with Mary Mackenzie and Roxy Manning
Article • 23-35 mins
All Skill Levels
Article
23-35 mins
In this transcript, clinical psychologist and organizational consultant, Roxy Manning, PhD, offers ways for us to increase our capacity to (1) See things that we otherwise wouldn't; (2) Bring more relevance to our groups, organizations and social change movements; (3) Talk openly about microaggressions: statements or (in)actions that (inadvertently) minimize, diminish or negate somebody's...
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How I Continue to Mess Up Being an Ally

How I Continue to Mess Up Being an Ally

How I Continue to Mess Up Being an Ally

with Oren Jay Sofer
Article • 5 - 8 minutes
All Skill Levels
Article
5 - 8 minutes
Working for racial justice is a shift in perspective—a shift in understanding and empathy that leads to a change in our actions: to listen instead of talk, to follow instead of lead, to yield rather than dominate. And to accept that I will continue to mess up. Part of working to undo racism is having the humility to know when our own understanding is limited. Read on for more this, and how it...
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NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

NVC Conversations About Privilege and Power-Over

with Dian Killian
Article • 9 - 14 minutes
All Skill Levels
Article
9 - 14 minutes
Some people in the NVC community consider the words "privilege" and "power" triggering and/or evaluative. From this perspective, how can the concepts of "privilege" and "power" be considered part of the NVC teaching? This writing piece examines the power and privilege debate. It also discusses what the author sees as Marshall Rosenberg and Gandhi's stance on the subject...
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