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NVC Resources on Renewal & Vitality

Rooms in the Same House – Interweaving NVC and Buddhism (6 Session Course)

Rooms in the Same House – Interweaving NVC and Buddhism (6 Session Course)

Rooms in the Same House – Interweaving NVC and Buddhism (6 Session Course)

with Roberta Wall with Barbara Bash

Audio • 6 - 8 hours • 4/5/2017

Audio
6 - 8 hours
4/5/2017

Find renewed aliveness and connection in your daily life through NVC and Buddhist Mindfulness practices. NVC can be lived as a Mindfulness Practice and consciousness that helps us be more present, open and loving to the flow of life within ourselves and in relation to others. Buddhist principles and practices can add depth and insight to NVC practice and consciousness. The first session is...

A List of Feelings We All Have (Emotions and Sensations)

A List of Feelings We All Have (Emotions and Sensations)

A List of Feelings We All Have (Emotions and Sensations)

with NVC Academy

Learning Tool • N/A • 2019

Learning Tool
N/A
2019

The following list of words are used to express a combination of emotional states and physical sensations. This list is neither exhaustive nor definitive. It is meant as a starting place to help you develop your emotional vocabulary and further support your communication with others.

Celebrating Mourning

Celebrating Mourning

Celebrating Mourning

with Christine King

Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 2005

Article
3 - 5 minutes
2005

In a recent vacation in a Mexican village, I was surprised to find myself in the midst of a community in mourning. Two days before I came, a 21-year-old girl had died in a car accident. Everyone in the town knew her and was openly affected by her death.

Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)

Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)

Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Video • 6 hours • 11/19/2014

Video
6 hours
11/19/2014

If you're interested in learning specifically how and what you can do to live compassionately – with plenty of hands-on practice time – this course is for you. Observe actual demonstrations of Robert guiding participants through the transformational territory of healing and integration.

Living the Fullness of Life (9 Session Course)

Living the Fullness of Life (9 Session Course)

Living the Fullness of Life (9 Session Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Video • 14-18 hours • 01/2010

Video
14-18 hours
01/2010

How do we live each and every day from the “living energy of needs” – with the unimpeded fullness of life’s energies flowing through us, regardless of the conflicts or life circumstances we may be experiencing? Through developing deep self-compassion. How can we experience our inner world from a place of utter and total compassion? When we practice compassionate self-care, we create an inner...

Opening Hearts in Israel, Palestine, India and Sri Lanka

Opening Hearts in Israel, Palestine, India and Sri Lanka

Opening Hearts in Israel, Palestine, India and Sri Lanka

with Shantigarbha Warren

Article • 11 pages • 02/2012

Article
11 pages
02/2012

CNVC Certified Trainer Shantigarbha Warren offers a report of his recent NVC training trip to Israel/Palestine, India and Sri Lanka and clarifies how NVC can support social change in three very different contexts. Included is an exercise, based on Gandhi’s teaching.

The Book of Love: Bringing You Closer to Your Lover

The Book of Love: Bringing You Closer to Your Lover

The Book of Love: Bringing You Closer to Your Lover

with Shantigarbha Warren

Trainer Tip • 1-2 minutes • Circa 2007

Trainer Tip
1-2 minutes
Circa 2007

Trainer Tip: Could you tell me something I do that meets your need for love?

Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

with Susan Skye

Audio • 7 - 9 hours • 10/21/2010

Audio
7 - 9 hours
10/21/2010

Join Susan Skye as she guides you to experience profound transformation of the inner jackal messages resulting from childhood trauma. Discover how the limbic system of the brain works, and transform jackal messages stored there with compassionate connection. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

Introduction to the Living Energy of Needs

Introduction to the Living Energy of Needs

Introduction to the Living Energy of Needs

with Susan Skye

Audio • 1 hour, 5 minutes • 2009

Audio
1 hour, 5 minutes
2009

Join Susan Skye in this hour-long audio recording to learn how to experience the NVC consciousness as an embodied, living practice of the 'Living Energy of Needs." This recording includes a supportive learning exercise and tips for expressing needs in a non-mechanical way. "Over the years, I have noticed that people -- including trainers and facilitators -- use the words of the NVC process...

The Living Energy of Needs

The Living Energy of Needs

The Living Energy of Needs

with Susan Skye

Video • 32 minutes • 10/2007

Video
32 minutes
10/2007

In this interactive video, Susan Skye helps you unlearn existing, negative associations with the term "needs" to instead build a new association grounded in your natural state of compassion.

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

with Ike Lasater and John Kinyon

Audio • 12 minutes • 01/26/2016

Audio
12 minutes
01/26/2016

When you have intrusive thoughts about yourself and feel ‘crummy,’ Ike recommends using the Chooser / Educator map as a guide to lead you out of the primitive part of your brain and back to your prefrontal cortex. Both the Chooser and the Educator want to contribute to your well being, but in different ways. This map facilitates having a positive conversation with them.

Mediate Your Life: Resolving Internal Conflicts (Part 5)

Mediate Your Life: Resolving Internal Conflicts (Part 5)

Mediate Your Life: Resolving Internal Conflicts (Part 5)

with Ike Lasater and John Kinyon

Audio • 1 hour, 19 minutes • 10/28/2014

Audio
1 hour, 19 minutes
10/28/2014

If you wish you could stay more centered and present in the face of difficult or demanding situations, this course will provide some powerful tools for you. In this session, join John and Ike as they review the Chooser-Educator Process (C-E) and demonstrate the "Barriers in the Chairs" process to help you get beyond the obstacles that keep you from your goals.

Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)

Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)

Stoking the Fires of Joy: Living with Gratitude (6 Session Course)

with Kathleen Macferran

Audio • 5 hours, 26 minutes • 03/2008

Audio
5 hours, 26 minutes
03/2008

Bask in this telecourse recording with Kathleen Macferran and explore ways to nurture and maintain greater depths of joy by focusing on gratitude. The reward? To increase your ability to live fully present to the joy in life, even in the midst of pain. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)

Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)

Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)

with Roxy Manning

Audio • 10 -12 hours • 09/10/2019

Audio
10 -12 hours
09/10/2019

For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield. With humility, tenderness, and courage, Roxy challenges your perspectives and encourages you to open your heart and mind. Roxy uses concrete examples and visual tools to illustrate complex concepts. The first session of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy.

What’s Important to You?

What’s Important to You?

What’s Important to You?

with Penny Wassman

Practice Exercise • 2 pages • Circa 2009

Practice Exercise
2 pages
Circa 2009

This exercise is most often the first activity in a beginning level workshop after the usual logistics/history/check-in. Penny Wassman experiences it as an opportunity for people to build connection with one another.

Courageous Living Towards the World We Want

Courageous Living Towards the World We Want

Courageous Living Towards the World We Want

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 32 minutes • 12/2009

Audio
32 minutes
12/2009

Miki speaks to peace activists about connecting with the life vision in those who stimulate pain in them.

Experiencing the Energy of Your Needs Meditation

Experiencing the Energy of Your Needs Meditation

Experiencing the Energy of Your Needs Meditation

with Mary Mackenzie

Audio • 4 minutes • 2007

Audio
4 minutes
2007

Mary Mackenzie leads listeners through a guided meditation to experience the energy of needs. This meditation will support you to connect to your feelings and needs in the moment, and to experience the unique and deep energetic quality of that primary need.

Extreme Gratitude

Extreme Gratitude

Extreme Gratitude

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • Circa 2005

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
Circa 2005

Trainer Tip: When I am in resistance to what is happening in my life, when I'm having a very difficult time enjoying or just being with what is occurring, I like to offer up my gratitude.

Cultivating Vitality

Cultivating Vitality

Cultivating Vitality

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 18 minutes • 12/2011

Audio
18 minutes
12/2011

Learn how to use NVC consciousness to cultivate vitality, wake up your life and re-map your old patterns by blending NVC with the Positive Psychology work of Martin Seligman.

The Vortex of Submission (9 Session Course)

The Vortex of Submission (9 Session Course)

The Vortex of Submission (9 Session Course)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 9 hours, 55 minutes • 01/2011

Audio
9 hours, 55 minutes
01/2011

Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jori and Jim Manske in an exploration of how gratitude can enable you to remain more present moment to moment, thus enabling you to flourish in your life!

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