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Tips on Making a Request

Tips on Making a Request

Tips on Making a Request

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary offers 3 foundational tips for making requests: positivity, specificity and doability.

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Enjoyment Redefined

Enjoyment Redefined

Enjoyment Redefined

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary reflects on the nature of happiness and its relationship to presence.

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No Sacrifices, Please

No Sacrifices, Please

No Sacrifices, Please

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary explains why success isn't dependent upon another person's pain, by reaching for consensus instead of self-sacrifice.

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Taking Responsibility for Our Actions

Taking Responsibility for Our Actions

Taking Responsibility for Our Actions

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Mary shares an experience about accepting responsibility for her actions and how that lead her to greater choice and freedom.

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Getting Past Our Judgments

Getting Past Our Judgments

Getting Past Our Judgments

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Using NVC as a tool to transform our judgments can revolutionize our perceptions and relationships.

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Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Sometimes the best way to get our need me is to first connect with the needs of another.

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Fear of Negative Consequences

Fear of Negative Consequences

Fear of Negative Consequences

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 8 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
8 minutes

Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible, and that nonviolence is a powerful alternative to our habitual Fight, Flight, Freeze responses.

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Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal

Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal

Improving Relationships as a Primary Goal

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: We can improve our relationships by focusing our attention first on connection instead of other stragegies.

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Persisting vs. Demanding

Persisting vs. Demanding

Persisting vs. Demanding

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Persisting without demanding is the art of what Marshall Rosenberg fondly called "Dogging for our needs." We can learn to not give up on our needs and at the same time, refrain from demanding they be met.

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The Difference Between Needs and Requests

The Difference Between Needs and Requests

The Difference Between Needs and Requests

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Knowing the difference between what we need and what we want someone else to do about that need can have a profound impact on our relationships and our happiness.

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Connecting Feelings and Needs

Connecting Feelings and Needs

Connecting Feelings and Needs

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: When we connect our feelings to our needs, we put ourselves in a postion to get our needs met and mourn when they aren't met. Here's a practical tip you can practice daily to improve the quality of your life.

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Committing to Full Understanding

Committing to Full Understanding

Committing to Full Understanding

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: There's one sure way to find hidden assumptions, stop and check it out!

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How Does Change Take Place?

How Does Change Take Place?

How Does Change Take Place?

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 5 minutes

Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
5 minutes

How does change take place? In this brief segment, Miki explores the three key ingredients that make change possible for individuals as well as for societal change.

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Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

with LoraKim Joyner, DVM

Audio • 5 - 7 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
5 - 7 hours

Join LoraKim Joyner to investigate how merging science, the social and emotional intelligence of humans, animals and other species and Nonviolent Communication can bring a greater sense of belonging and wholeness to your life, and care and justice to the lives of others. The first part of this course is available for all to listen to and enjoy:

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Taste of Compassionate Leadership Series: Winning the Blame Game

Taste of Compassionate Leadership Series: Winning the Blame Game

Taste of Compassionate Leadership Series: Winning the Blame Game

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 47 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
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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When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety

When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety

When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 7 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
7 minutes

CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan tells us to look to our inner dialogue and the other's needs when we're feeling fear of physical violence that's been stimlated by someone's anger.

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Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful

Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful

Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 30 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
30 minutes

What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.

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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

Beginner Skill Level
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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Choice in the Face of Demands

Choice in the Face of Demands

Choice in the Face of Demands

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
1 hour, 8 minutes

No one likes demands. Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she provides tools to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic.

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How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

with Mary Mackenzie

Audio • 46 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
46 minutes

This holiday, shift your focus from what disappoints you to the true whisperings of your heart. Compassion is an inside-outside process. In this telecourse recording, you will experience four simple tools for savoring your own precious needs, allowing you to experience greater compassion and harmony this holiday.

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