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NVC Resources with Eric Bowers

The Heart and Science of Empathy (5 Session Course)

The Heart and Science of Empathy (5 Session Course)

The Heart and Science of Empathy (5 Session Course)

with Eric Bowers

Audio • 6 - 8 hours

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
6 - 8 hours

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Eric Bowers in journeying through the world of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) as he expands on the theories and tools from his book Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success. You'll discover why IPNB and NVC complement each other so well, especially in the powerful practice of Somatic-Based Resonant Empathy. The first session of...

Three Life Changing Choices Singles Can Make to Avoid Heartbreaking Relationships

Three Life Changing Choices Singles Can Make to Avoid Heartbreaking Relationships

Three Life Changing Choices Singles Can Make to Avoid Heartbreaking Relationships

with Eric Bowers

Audio • 45 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Audio
45 minutes

Join Eric, as he reveals a clear path from heartbreaking intimate relationships to joyful, thriving intimate relationships. Eric uses his passion for helping singles heal from their past relationships, to help you to experience more ease, joy and mutuality in future relationships.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 24. Shine a Light on Your Shadow: Projection Detection and Reclaiming Disowned Parts

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

How do you know when you’re projecting disowned parts or replaying old relationship dynamics? It’s hard to know for sure, but if you find yourself upset or shutting down and unable to have a dialogue in which you can speak clearly about your feelings and needs and empathize with the other’s feelings and needs, there is likely a projection. The stronger your reaction, the more likely you are...

Don't Just Feel Your Emotions

Don't Just Feel Your Emotions

Don't Just Feel Your Emotions

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 2 - 3 minutes

Beginner
Trainer Tip
2 - 3 minutes

To keep our life energy moving and growing we can find the resources to welcome and accompany various parts of ourselves with compassion and love -- as though these parts are very young children. And even if these parts contain difficult emotions...

Your Inner Leader

Your Inner Leader

Your Inner Leader

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 2 - 3 minutes

All Skill Levels
Trainer Tip
2 - 3 minutes

When building successful relationships, it can be very helpful to see yourself as a collection of different inner parts that developed due to various life experiences. Without empathy and acknowledgment, our inner parts tend to work against us. That's when we're called upon to build and develop our inner leadership...

The Ultimate Romance

The Ultimate Romance

The Ultimate Romance

with Eric Bowers

Article • 6 - 9 minutes

All Skill Levels
Article
6 - 9 minutes

For the ultimate romance to unfold, as an expression of your care for how your words and actions affect others, prioritize digging into your inner work before addressing conflict with them. This means doing the inner work necessary to get to the root of the issue, which can bring bigger shifts, more aliveness, love, creativity, inspiration and compassion. This doesn't mean letting the other...

What is the Shadow?

What is the Shadow?

What is the Shadow?

with Eric Bowers

Article • 4 - 6 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
4 - 6 minutes

What parts of yourself or others are hard to embrace, understand or even notice? What parts do others have difficulty embracing, understanding or noticing? Why do we condemn, loathe, hate, deny, judge, blame or feel shame around certain needs, feelings and parts of self and/or others? This article talks about the hidden parts of ourselves and others that shapes views and behaviours.

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

with Eric Bowers

Article • 4 - 6 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Article
4 - 6 minutes

What's really going on underneath the surface when we bring or encounter blame, judgements, pain -- and thereby the inability to empathize, be present, attuned, or responsive? Why does this happen even if one or more people in a relationship dynamic is working hard at bringing in an NVC response? This article addresses these and more questions from the perspective of how our brains are affected...

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 23. Resources for Building Successful Relationships

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 23. Resources for Building Successful Relationships

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 23. Resources for Building Successful Relationships

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 5 - 8 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
5 - 8 minutes

Eric offers us a list of some of his favorite books, articles, and videos related to building successful relationships.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 3 - 5 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
3 - 5 minutes

Eric offers some tips for nurturing and affirming ourselves as a daily practice.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 17. Make Time to Grieve

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 17. Make Time to Grieve

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 17. Make Time to Grieve

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Grieving reminds us of the preciousness of life, it helps us integrate loss, and it opens us to deeper compassion, inspiration, and joy. We need to create space in our lives to grieve fully.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 16. Help Others Build Their Own Truth-Finding Neural Pathways

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 16. Help Others Build Their Own Truth-Finding Neural Pathways

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 16. Help Others Build Their Own Truth-Finding Neural Pathways

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Along with it’s potential for helping others calm their emotions and feel deeply understood, the Nonviolent Communication process of empathetic listening can help someone increase their capacity for finding their own truth.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 15. Keep Asking for Help

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 15. Keep Asking for Help

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 15. Keep Asking for Help

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Asking for help is difficult for many of us, but can yield rich rewards.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

It can be challenging to tell people that you don’t like a certain behaviour or action of theirs. Even with supportive intentions and compassionate language your message might be difficult for someone to receive. Of course, we are not responsible for others’ reactions, but we are responsible to care about each other, and there are effective ways to express ourselves with more care.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 13. The Eight Most Powerful Things You Can Do to Build an Inspiring Relationship

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 13. The Eight Most Powerful Things You Can Do to Build an Inspiring Relationship

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 13. The Eight Most Powerful Things You Can Do to Build an Inspiring Relationship

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 4 - 6 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
4 - 6 minutes

What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I answered the question with romantic relationships in mind; however, I believe the answer below applies to all important relationships.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 12. Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 12. Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 12. Connect to the Living Energy of Your Needs

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

For many, the word “need” is associated with lack, neediness, and scarcity. These associations are the opposite of the meaning of needs in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In NVC, needs are the motivational energy of our innate wholeness and desire to grow, like the energy of a plant pushing it up through the soil and toward the sun.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 11. Catching Hearts

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 11. Catching Hearts

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 11. Catching Hearts

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

When we take a leap in life and put our hearts out into the world in new or bigger ways—sharing a song, dance, or poem, writing a book, competing at a sporting event, giving a speech, and so on—there is greater potential for aliveness but also for shame and pain

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 10. Take It to the Trees

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 10. Take It to the Trees

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 10. Take It to the Trees

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

One of the most important things you can do to live a meaningful and rewarding life filled with vitality is reclaim your emotions. Eric offers a tip to reclaim your emotions, rescuing you from the numb and deadening state of “fine."

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 9. Make Poetry Out of Empathy

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 9. Make Poetry Out of Empathy

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 9. Make Poetry Out of Empathy

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 2 - 3 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
2 - 3 minutes

Nonviolent Communication includes a practice of empathy that involves listening for feelings and needs no matter how someone expresses themselves, and reflecting back the feelings and needs when it is helpful to do so. You can reflect back in a traditional NVC manner, or in a more creative way, with metaphors.

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 8. Practice Self-Empathy with Your Whole Body

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 8. Practice Self-Empathy with Your Whole Body

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 8. Practice Self-Empathy with Your Whole Body

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes

Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

In our fast-paced, busy lives it is tempting to practice NVC mostly with the left hemisphere of the brain, thinking through the steps quickly without slowing down to connect more deeply with feelings and needs. Don't miss an opportunity to integrate the hemispheres of the brain and the valuable information from the neural networks in the heart and gut.

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