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NVC Resources on Mourning


Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning

Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning

Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning

with Robert Gonzales
Practice Exercise • 3 -5 minutes • 
Practice Exercise
3 -5 minutes
Integrating a full living involves grief/mourning and gratitude. Here we'll more deeply integrate inner and outer dimensions of gratitude and grief. In any experience there's the outer aspect, an event that occurs in life. And there's the inner response to the outer event. When we judge the outer positively or negatively we're in tension or resistance to our experience. Here we'll explore a...
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Grief and Mourning for the World

Grief and Mourning for the World

Grief and Mourning for the World

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 5-7 minutes • 
Article
5-7 minutes
As you witness injustices in the world, tension, anger, hopelessness, despair and more, may rise up in you. These feelings may lead to reactive thinking that doesn't contribute to healing nor wise action. Mourning is a universal need. If your culture pushed away grief and its emotional expression, you may have habits that block your access to the aliveness of grief. Read on for ways to give...
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Mourning Our Way to Acceptance

Mourning Our Way to Acceptance

Mourning Our Way to Acceptance

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 7 - 11 minutes • 
Article
7 - 11 minutes
When something happens that we don't like no amount of resentment nor magical thinking will make it disappear. Instead, we can mourn to dissolve our own resistance, resentment, and numbness of resignation. Mourning can allow us to feel pain with acceptance, and without needing to be okay with what happened. Acceptance can bring us to a place where even all the anguish in the world is fully,...
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Dealing With Disappointment

Dealing With Disappointment

Dealing With Disappointment

with Erin Merrihew
Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 
Article
3 - 5 minutes
Disappointment emerges when there is a gap between what we want, expect or hope for, and what is happening. When this occurs it can be tempting to make someone or the situation wrong. Instead, rather than pushing against the flow of life we can rejoin it, non-judgmentally notice our observations and feelings. Plus we can nurture acceptance and mourning. We can also remember that what's...
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Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Practice Exercise • 12 -17 mins • 
Practice Exercise
12 -17 mins
How to maintain conscious connection and compassion as you grapple with the tragic violence in Ukraine? Here we'll look at dissolving enemy images we have, inviting mourning, maintaining self connection that benefits our global community, creating ideas for action, acknowledging the power of what we envision, and engaging in an exercise for applying consciousness and skills to an imaginary...
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Dealing with Loss: Engaging with Someone’s Grief for the World

Dealing with Loss: Engaging with Someone’s Grief for the World

Dealing with Loss: Engaging with Someone’s Grief for the World

with Kristin Masters
Video • 9 minutes • 
Video
9 minutes
When faced with someone’s grief for the world, how do you engage with them in a way that is informed? In this session, Kristin suggests exploring what they might be grieving… what they’re afraid of losing… and what it is that they love.
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The Spiral Blend

The Spiral Blend

The Spiral Blend

with David K Weinstock
Video • 15 minutes • 
Video
15 minutes
David explores how movement helps you hold your center when navigating challenging conversations. Example: Move to Wind ~ to calm your system; Move to Ground ~ to notice the ground on which you stand; and Step to Shikaku ~ step behind to practice empathic listening. Listen Now.
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Neither Rioting Nor Colluding: Powerful Speaking to Create Social Change

Neither Rioting Nor Colluding: Powerful Speaking to Create Social Change

Neither Rioting Nor Colluding: Powerful Speaking to Create Social Change

with Roxy Manning
Audio • 1 hour, 9 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 9 minutes
Listen to Roxy Manning explore the barriers to speaking authentically as powerful voices for change, and practice these needed conversations about the ongoing violence in the streets of America.
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Healing Old Pain

Healing Old Pain

Healing Old Pain

with Robert Gonzales
Video • 41 minutes • 
Video
41 minutes
Watch this heartwarming video as Robert Gonzales works with a volunteer to heal old pain over a situation with her grandmother. By playing the grandmother role, and using three different role play scenarios, Robert guides the woman through three stages of healing.
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Nonviolence in the Face of Hatred

Nonviolence in the Face of Hatred

Nonviolence in the Face of Hatred

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 14 - 21 minutes • 
Article
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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