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Listen in as Dian shares her tips and sense of urgency around bringing NVC skills to work: 1) How to use your imagination (visualization!) to help you connect with somatic responses and needs; and 2) Five built-in advantages to sharing NVC in the work place.

How do you build new learning paths and change old practices? Listen as David presents the elements of somatic practice — including those that build new learning paths — and discover where that learning “sweet spot” is!

John introduces his Self-Connection Exercise as a mindful way of coming to awareness via OFNR. Breath: immediately observable, a reminder to observe. Body: feeling the body, awareness of sensations. Needs: an experience of wholeness that expands awareness of the totality of experience. Listen.

Using real-life examples from class participants, Sylvia Haskvitz demonstrates the life-changing results of clarifying the needs underlying "shoulds." Some of the situations covered in this audio are: A grandmother shares how she was able to spend time with her grandchildren even when experiencing estrangement from her daughter A father examines how to repair a conversation with his daughter A woman explores her "should" thinking about her financial stability, her job and grief regarding her husband's death A woman connects to her deeper needs that arise with the statement "I should do my taxes" A woman perceives that she has conflicting needs for family harmony, relaxation and comfort when deciding whether to spend holiday time with stepchildren If your life is fraught with "shoulds," this resource will support you in translating them into needs and, in some cases, to let them go entirely.

NVC helps us translate any judgments we may be holding – towards ourselves or others – into feelings and needs that connect us to our humanity. We are not perfect. We have never done anything wrong, and we have never done anything right.

Watch and listen as CNVC Certified Trainer Yoram Mosenzon from the Netherlands deftly demonstrates the beautiful solutions that arise when you bring NVC's radical honesty to your relationships during this delightful video.

Learn about Ceri, Jo, and Sarah's powerful 4-tiered system for building skills and providing resources that support local practice groups, trainers, and NVC event planners in preparing for the inevitable conflicts that show up in all levels of any community – including ours!

Listen in as Roxy explains how NVC approaches systemic change: through the protective use of force, the ability to self connect and connect to others, requests vs. demands, and understanding needs that are motivating behaviors. 

Responding to a Painful Comment: How do you carry on a conversation when someone’s comment has had an impact on you? And what happens when two intentions clash because of different perspectives? Here’s Roxy’s powerful, common sense approach.

Listen in as Roxy Manning and Mary Mackenzie introduce NVC… share information on the dynamics of identity in social change movements… and demonstrate through role playing how NVC grows connection.