NVC Resources on Strategies

Conflict Improv: “I’m Bored”

with Christine King and Kelly Bryson

Video • 11 minutes •

Video
11 minutes

In this amusing and inspiring video, CNVC Certified Trainers Kelly Bryson and Christine King engage in a role play about a parent talking to a seven year old daughter who is feeling bored.

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Conflict Improv: My Friend's Inner Jackals

with Christine King and Kelly Bryson

Video • 9 minutes •

Video
9 minutes

Kelly Bryson and Christine King engage in a role play about how to stay connected to a friend whose persistent jackal voices tell her that she is worthless and her life is hopeless.

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Wanting Fully without Attachment

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour •

Audio
1 hour

Do you want to befriend your needs and live without shame about them? Would you like to increase your inner freedom by letting go of attachment to outcome? Join Miki Kashtan to learn skills and practices that will enable you to want fully without attachment.

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Workplace Series: When Purpose Trumps Connection

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 minutes •

Audio
6 minutes

In most business environments, purpose holds a higher priority than connection. Listen to Miki discuss the strategy of using minimum connection to remain true to the purpose at hand, and how the purpose of empathy may differ in the workplace.

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Workplace Series: Turning a Mandatory Meeting Into a Collaboration

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 8 minutes •

Audio
8 minutes

Miki works with a course participant to transform begrudging attendance at a mandatory meeting into the possibility for collaboration, more connection where little is expected and focus on clarity of purpose for meeting in the first place.

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Workplace Series: The Distinction Between Giving Feedback and Wanting to be Heard

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 9 minutes •

Audio
9 minutes

Listen to Miki make an important distinction between giving feedback, which is grounded in a desire to contribute to another, and our own need to be heard.

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Workplace Series: Supervisors Giving Feedback to Others

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 11 minutes •

Audio
11 minutes

Creating a trusting connection and keeping the line of communication open are the primary prerequsites for giving feedback as a supervisor. Listen to Miki work with a course participant to ready herself for an upcoming feedback session.

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Developing Discernment

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 43 minutes •

Audio
43 minutes

Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices.

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Honest & Conscious Expression

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 56 minutes •

Audio
56 minutes

Jim and Jori Manske explore the considerations of expressing ourselves honestly, considerations that lead to more fully conscious and nonviolent connections.

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Sherlock Holmes of the Heart

with Sylvia Haskvitz

Audio • 1 hour, 11 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 11 minutes

In this audio recording, Veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Sylvia Haskvitz uses real-life situations to help us find more natural expressions of what is harmony with our hearts.

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How to Open Your Holiday Presence

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 48 minutes •

Audio
48 minutes

In this telecourse recording, you will learn and practice self-awareness skills to fine tune your attention to met needs; savoring feelings of well-being; expressing these feelings to others; and receiving other people's messages of joy, gratitude, inspiration and more!

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Recovering from Reactivity Series: Taking a Step Back

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 14 minutes •

Audio
14 minutes

Join Jim and Jori Manske in a thought experiment exercise designed to help us become more aware of our conditioning, allowing us to make more conscious and connected choices in the face of conflict.

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Winning the Blame Game

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 47 minutes •

Audio
47 minutes

Jim and Jori Manske offer insight into blame, how it arises and how do we handle being blamed and our own blame of others.

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Conflict Improv: Returning the Flaky Olive Oil

with Christine King, Jean Morrison and Kelly Bryson

Video • 15 minutes •

Video
15 minutes

Using an example from a participant, the trainers engage in a role play to explore how to stay in your heart even when being perceived as a difficult customer by store employees.

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Living NVC

with Carol Chase and Mair Alight

Video • 1 hour •

Video
1 hour

Mair Alight and Carol Chase show, through their interaction with each other, a living model of how NVC deepens friendships. They also provide information on why giraffes and jackals were originally chosen as the NVC mascots.

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Moving From Blame to Self-Responsibility

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 2 - 5 minutes •

Article
2 - 5 minutes

Often when someone else does something we don't like, it's easy to blame the other person. After all, we have all been trained to focus on fault when needs are not met. What can we do to shift that pattern?

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NVC Principles

with Miki Kashtan

Video • 22 minutes •

Video
22 minutes

In this 3-part video, Miki Kashtan discusses the spiritual nature of NVC, delves deeper into the NVC concept of needs and offers practical tools to make requests in ways that others are more likely to respond to positively.

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Use of “To Be” Verbs

with John Kinyon

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Ask the Trainer: “I heard a trainer say once that the ‘to be’ verbs aren’t really needs, such as to be heard, to be understood or to be valued. Can you help me understand why not?”

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Mediating Conflict with Kids

with Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

Audio • 48 minutes •

Audio
48 minutes

In this stimulating audio recording, Stephanie Mattei covers several "hot" parenting topics such as: boundary issues, strategy resilience, how to shift your right/wrong mentality and understanding the concept of fairness. While unraveling these topics, Stephanie intersperses some practical neuroscience around brain regulation and brain-wise conflict prevention.

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Article
3 -5 minutes

The human needs that we all share are the foundation of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process because it is in connecting to needs that we find inner freedom, empowerment and compassion.

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