What Makes NVC Hard?
Article
3 - 5 minutes
Sometimes there are moments when empathy has no effect at all on one another. Why? One reason could be that our brains maybe less receptive because of unseen forces that affect our nervous system and relationship to others...
Life Serving Strategies
Article
2-3 minutes
This sheet lists and describes 13 life serving strategies, such as: Time out, disengage, honesty check, and engaging in a working recovery plan. Read on for more.
Daily Self-Empathy Practice
Audio
11 minutes
Want to expand your needs vocabulary, and build your capacity to identify needs — even when you’ve been triggered? Check out Mary’s powerful teaching on Self-Empathy.
Consciousness, NVC, and Navigating Inner and Outer Conflicts
Consciousness, NVC, and Navigating Inner and Outer Conflicts
Consciousness, NVC, and Navigating Inner and Outer Conflicts
Audio
35 minutes
Listen to John talk about the inner and outer mediation process, the importance of the "3rd chair," and an experience of working with Pakistani elders.
Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral
Audio
1 hour, 11 minutes
Transforming anger is a key practice for returning to conscious presence and connection with self and others when triggered into a reaction. Join John Kinyon to learn this essential life skill through the Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral.
Expressing and Receiving “No” in NVC Consciousness
Expressing and Receiving “No” in NVC Consciousness
Expressing and Receiving “No” in NVC Consciousness
Audio
1 hour, 21 minutes
How we deal with “no” is a litmus test of our state of consciousness around power. Listen as John works with participants as they learn to give and receive a "no" from a consciousness of interpersonal connection.
Inner Maps of Conflict
Audio
9 minutes
In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.
Embracing Your Emotions: Honoring the Wisdom of BIG Emotions (3 Session Course)
Embracing Your Emotions: Honoring the Wisdom of BIG Emotions (3 Session Course)
Embracing Your Emotions: Honoring the Wisdom of BIG Emotions (3 Session Course)
Audio
3 - 4 hours
Listen to this short 3 session telecourse recording with CNVC Certified Trainer Christine King, and you will learn how to honor the wisdom that your anger, fear, shame and other BIG emotions have for you.
The Four Responses Exercise Cards
Learning Tool
30 - 60 minutes
Use these cards in your practice group or NVC training to understand 4 different ways of responding to hard to hear messages. Become aware of the way you habitually respond to stimulus and develop skills to respond with empathy and express honestly.
Emotional Regulation Strategies
Practice Exercise
2-3 minutes
Emotional regulation is the consistent capacity to fully experience one’s feelings, particularly when they are intense and/or painful. Here are 36 practices that help with emotional regulation that can be done alone or with others. Read on for more.