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NVC Resources with Sarah Peyton

From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 6-9 minutes •

Article
6-9 minutes

Our everyday personal experiences of diminishment, and the destruction of our planet has a through-line. Societal traumas lead to us shutting down to avoid pain, and this limits us. The avoidance shifts our brains so we don’t see other beings, species and our planet as wondrous, precious and irreplaceable. Thus, we meet others with diminishment, oblivion, or abuse; trauma keeps passing on. This...

The Shadow in Human Relationship

The Shadow in Human Relationship

The Shadow in Human Relationship

with Sarah Peyton

Audio • 11 minutes •

Audio
11 minutes

What don't we know about ourselves? Our unconscious contracts impact us, our shadow selves, and our relationships. In this snippet, Sarah uses her own unconscious contract to demonstrate navigating through reactions to today’s political environment.

Time Travel Empathy

Time Travel Empathy

Time Travel Empathy

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 7 minutes •

Video
7 minutes

One of the tools that help heal trauma is Time Travel Empathy. This process contributes to settling the energy field around a tangled trauma knot, which enables the trauma to become an integrated memory and part of life. Listen in as Sarah explains.

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 8 minutes •

Video
8 minutes

How does it benefit you and the world to learn about privilege? How can NVC and Interpersonal Neurobiology help you see yourself and your patterns with compassion? How does using empathy address brain structures and patterns that have been embedded in privilege? Listen to Sarah’s answers.

Implicit Bias and Own Race Bias (ORB)

Implicit Bias and Own Race Bias (ORB)

Implicit Bias and Own Race Bias (ORB)

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 12 minutes •

Video
12 minutes

Sarah Peyton explains implicit bias and own race bias (ORB), predispositions that slant our perceptions of ourselves and others. There's hope, these implicit biases can be overcome!

Climate Anxiety Isn’t a Disease. It’s a Normal Response to a World on Fire.

Climate Anxiety Isn’t a Disease. It’s a Normal Response to a World on Fire.

Climate Anxiety Isn’t a Disease. It’s a Normal Response to a World on Fire.

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 3 - 5 minutes •

Article
3 - 5 minutes

There are healers and therapists who see climate anxiety as a pathology. Instead, we can see it as an understandable reaction to the magnitude of the environmental problems that surround us. And we can see it as a subset of eco-anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease triggered by an awareness of the ecological threats facing the earth due to climate catastrophe. Read on for tips on...

Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 5 - 8 minutes •

Article
5 - 8 minutes

An addiction to something (eg. opioids, fats, sugars, salts, cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, etc.) or a compulsion (eg. gambling, shopping, working, sex or love addictions) is often an unconscious attempt to soothe trauma - fear, loneliness and shame that's frozen in unconscious memory. The addiction or compulsion is a substitute for what we really need. It is an endless craving that's never...

Your Resonant Self: Transforming the Critical Inner Voice (6 Session Course)

Your Resonant Self: Transforming the Critical Inner Voice (6 Session Course)

Your Resonant Self: Transforming the Critical Inner Voice (6 Session Course)

with Sarah Peyton

Audio • 8 - 11 hours •

Audio
8 - 11 hours

Does your inner dialog sound supportive and encouraging - or more like you’re being yelled at by a critical task-master? Gain an understanding of the neuroscience of the left and right hemispheres of the human brain and locate just where this savage inner voice is coming from and how to respond to it with empathy.

The Neuroscience of Privilege, Power and Status

The Neuroscience of Privilege, Power and Status

The Neuroscience of Privilege, Power and Status

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 15 - 23 minutes •

Article
15 - 23 minutes

Understanding how our brains operate in relation to power, privilege and status is important if we wish to build a world that works for all. This article gives an overview of the brain tendencies we have in relationship to groups, and provides remedies to counteract the automatic labor-saving devices of our human brains (which often prevent us from seeing the fullness of others, and our own,...

Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Our pattern-making minds make predictions about how best to survive in the world. So deep wounds from our past can influence our minds to make life long generalizations that harden into core beliefs about groups of people. Read on for a demonstration of how empathy can shift these wounds and thus the core beliefs.

Anger’s Two Kinds of Reactivity

Anger’s Two Kinds of Reactivity

Anger’s Two Kinds of Reactivity

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 6 - 9 minutes •

Article
6 - 9 minutes

There's reactive anger - the sudden outbursts of words, temper or action that create a nervous system response in another. And then there's the anger that's a reaction to someone's anger -- a nervous system startle-response. Instead of either of these, we can learn to heal with empathy, look for unequal power dynamics, take responsibility to make repairs, and shift into the clean, life-serving,...

Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 6 - 9 minutes •

Article
6 - 9 minutes

When bullying occurs, if we do our own healing, our brains can become more sharp and present and willing to take action to connect and to begin to shift and mitigate the harm that trauma does in our world. We can reduce trauma inflicted upon others when we recognize the patterns of abuse and bullying, hold zero tolerance for it, bring in support for both sides of the conflict, and take action...

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 3 - 5 minutes •

Article
3 - 5 minutes

When we're received with resonant understanding painful moments can lessen their charge and became part of the whole tapestry of life -- important but no longer able to hijack us into the eternal re-run of pain. When held this way, we can touch the memories with our attention the way one touches a newly repaired tooth with the tongue, searching for the old roughness, the old wound, but not...

Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 9 - 14 minutes •

Article
9 - 14 minutes

One way to understand trauma is it means we got a blow greater than our nervous system can tolerate – then we move into hyperarousal, and then hypoarousal or dissociation. This cycle can continue long after. Here, we're not able to fully process emotional cues, information, our body, and others. It's important we consider re-writing the cultural paradigm of separation so that our trauma doesn't...

What About Psychopaths?

What About Psychopaths?

What About Psychopaths?

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Sometimes we want to avoid placing our love and trust in someone, to protect our hearts and our life energies. And so there are deeper questions that we can use to check whether we're in relationship with someone who doesn't have capacity to be in relationship with us (eg. “Do I have a sense of mattering in this relationship?”). Read on for more questions we use to assess our empathy and...

Emotionally Exhausted? Try Empathy

Emotionally Exhausted? Try Empathy

Emotionally Exhausted? Try Empathy

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 2 - 4 minutes •

Article
2 - 4 minutes

Living in this ceaselessly demanding world, how do we recover from emotional exhaustion? The hopelessness of not being met in the world can leave us wrung out like an old mop. Our heart rate plummets, our blood pressure and respiration drop, and energy and information processing start slogging along. Instead, we can build the bridge of empathy for greater rejuvenation.

Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC

Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC

Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 7 minutes •

Video
7 minutes

This resource is free for all to enjoy during May: Sarah Peyton explains how your brain's left hemisphere excels at pattern making. NVC can help integrate both hemispheres, enabling you to use the left side's love of patterns for abstract thinking.

Laughter, IPNB and Empathy

Laughter, IPNB and Empathy

Laughter, IPNB and Empathy

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 3 - 5 minutes •

Article
3 - 5 minutes

Sometimes even a very skilled empathy practicitioner can go into offering a non-empathic response, even when asked for empathy. Why? One reason could be that our brains might be less receptive because of unseen forces that affect our brain and relationship with others. This article speaks to the deeper "why" and also to one thing we could do to turn it around...

Unconscious Contracts

Unconscious Contracts

Unconscious Contracts

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 37 minutes •

Video
37 minutes

Discover how our unconscious contracts limit our life energy and how we make a vow or contract every time we experience a traumatic event. Listen in as Sarah works with a course participant.

An Invitation to Resonance: The Practice of Nonviolent Communication

An Invitation to Resonance: The Practice of Nonviolent Communication

An Invitation to Resonance: The Practice of Nonviolent Communication

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 10 - 15 minutes •

Article
10 - 15 minutes

Sometimes there are moments when empathy has no effect at all on one another. Why? One reason could be that our brains might be less receptive because of unseen forces that affect our nervous system and relationship with others.

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