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Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty

Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty

Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty

with Arnina Kashtan
Audio • 9 minutes • 
Audio
9 minutes
Does unworthiness keep you from expressing vulnerably and honestly? Afraid of being "found out?" Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant to discern stories from needs, recognize the tension between self-acceptance and personal development and sit with the discomfort of self-acceptance.
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A Talk About Needs

A Talk About Needs

A Talk About Needs

with Mary Mackenzie
Audio • 10 minutes • 
Audio
10 minutes
Listen to this audio to learn the value of focusing on needs in an NVC model, either for the first time or as a refresher course. Living from a needs-consciousness creates abundance, clarity and choice. Using three examples from participants, Mary guides the group towards identifying and then connecting with the needs of both parties involved in each situation. It becomes clear very quickly...
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Empathy Hurdles

Empathy Hurdles

Empathy Hurdles

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 2 pages • 
Article
2 pages
I want to hear others through the lens of the meaning their actions have for them rather than through the effect their actions have on me. The very root of empathy resides in this fundamental shift. Whenever someone’s actions are at odds with our own needs, most of us, most of the time, do the latter. In that way, we keep our attention on ourselves rather than on the other person. We cannot be...
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Introduction to NVC Mediation: Conceptual Overview and Experiential Learning and Practice

Introduction to NVC Mediation: Conceptual Overview and Experiential Learning and Practice

Introduction to NVC Mediation: Conceptual Overview and Experiential Learning and Practice

with John Kinyon
Audio • 1 hour, 13 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 13 minutes
This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater.
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Making the Most of Meetings: Proven Steps to Boost Meeting Productivity and Enjoyment

Making the Most of Meetings: Proven Steps to Boost Meeting Productivity and Enjoyment

Making the Most of Meetings: Proven Steps to Boost Meeting Productivity and Enjoyment

with Rachelle Lamb
Article • 5 - 8 minutes • 
Article
5 - 8 minutes
Rachelle Lamb offers proven steps to substantially boost meeting productivity and efficiency, and make meetings more productive and enjoyable for everyone, when using NVC. Rachelle offers a series of quick tips including check-in, take turns, pause, speak honestly, speak mindfully and more.
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The Freedom of Committing to a Path

The Freedom of Committing to a Path

The Freedom of Committing to a Path

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 5 - 8 minutes • 
Article
5 - 8 minutes
In June, 1996, I had an epiphany. In a motel room in Indiana, the night before returning home from a solo camping trip in Michigan and Canada, I discovered how much I had lost in my life because of so fiercely protecting myself. Up until that day, bringing forth my vulnerable self was to be avoided at all costs, which kept me numb much of the time, disconnected from myself and from much of...
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What Could I Say or Do When Someone Does Not Talk?

What Could I Say or Do When Someone Does Not Talk?

What Could I Say or Do When Someone Does Not Talk?

with Jim & Jori Manske
Trainer Tip • 1-2 minutes • 
Trainer Tip
1-2 minutes
Can you give me advice on what to do when people won't talk to me? I find it very difficult to discover what their needs are that aren't being met! Also, how can I be effective with people who don't actually want to think about why they're being the way they are?
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Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

with John Kinyon
Audio • 2 hours, 5 minutes • 
Audio
2 hours, 5 minutes
Experience John Kinyon's application of NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg's 4-part model of reconciliation and healing, a model he developed over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence.
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Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

with John Kinyon
Audio • 1 hour, 25 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 25 minutes
Marshall Rosenberg suggests that there are two requests that are the most transformative to relationships, (1) What’s alive in both of us? and (2) What would make life more wonderful for both of us? This telecourse recording offers an easy-to-digest overview of how carefully crafted requests inspire joyful relationships.
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ZENVC

ZENVC

ZENVC

with Catherine Cadden and Jesse Wiens
Audio • 1 hour, 57 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 57 minutes
The wisdom which NVC is based on is as old as humanity itself. This telecourse recording draws insights from NVC’s elder siblings of Taoism, Buddhism and indigenous culture to offer new ways of approaching common NVC ‘stuck’ places.
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