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NVC Resources on Education

NVC Life Hacks 26: Life-enriching education

NVC Life Hacks 26: Life-enriching education

NVC Life Hacks 26: Life-enriching education

with Shantigarbha Warren

Video • 4 minutes •

Video
4 minutes

A lot of us picked up new hobbies and learning new things during the COVID lockdown. After recently posting a puzzle on Facebook, Shantigarbha ended up being delightfully surprised at the conversation it began around NVC in relation to learning and education. Watch the video to hear our tips and click see more for the solution to the padlock puzzle below. My solution to the padlock puzzle: 042...

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

Mediate Your Life: Chooser Educator Map

with Ike Lasater and John Kinyon

Audio • 12 minutes •

Audio
12 minutes

When you have intrusive thoughts about yourself and feel ‘crummy,’ Ike recommends using the Chooser / Educator map as a guide to lead you out of the primitive part of your brain and back to your prefrontal cortex. Both the Chooser and the Educator want to contribute to your well being, but in different ways. This map facilitates having a positive conversation with them.

Compassionate Communication and Empathy’s Awakening

Compassionate Communication and Empathy’s Awakening

Compassionate Communication and Empathy’s Awakening

with John Cunningham

Article • 20 - 25 minutes •

Article
20 - 25 minutes

John Cunningham provides support to deepen your understanding and practice of NVC, including a sketch of the participatory and onlooker modes of consciousness, lists of feelings, needs and sample dialogues.

Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

Teachers Expressing to Students and Colleagues

with Miki Kashtan

Trainer Tip • 3 - 5 minutes •

Trainer Tip
3 - 5 minutes

Ask the Trainer: "I just started teaching in a public school and I'm not enjoying the violence that teachers express towards children and their colleagues. However, when I talk about NVC, most people listen but I feel they're either not understanding it or..."

Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation: For All the Meetings in Your Life (6 Session Course)

Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation: For All the Meetings in Your Life (6 Session Course)

Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation: For All the Meetings in Your Life (6 Session Course)

with Greg Rouillard, John Buck and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

Audio • 7 - 9 hours •

Audio
7 - 9 hours

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Greg Rouillard and Certified Dynamic Governance (Sociocracy) Consultant John Buck for this six-session course recording to learn how to transform your method of meeting facilitation. Many NVC organizations have begun using sociocratic tools, including circle meetings and decision making by consent, with satisfying results.

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Mentoring, Teaching and Coaching with Miki Kashtan

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Mentoring, Teaching and Coaching with Miki Kashtan

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Mentoring, Teaching and Coaching with Miki Kashtan

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 11 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 11 minutes

Listen as Miki works with participants. Topics: how small requests serve interdependence; NVC process vs purpose; how to respond when empathy is used to create distance; coping with verbal aggression, and more!

Partnership Paradigms in Schools: An NVC Integration Approach

Partnership Paradigms in Schools: An NVC Integration Approach

Partnership Paradigms in Schools: An NVC Integration Approach

with Jared Finkelstein and Lore Baur

Video • 1 hour, 4 minutes •

Video
1 hour, 4 minutes

What do you experience when you give up on needs that are important to you, and are coerced into doing something you didn’t want to do? And why is it hard to make requests? Listen in and learn more.

Principle Based Approach to Teaching NVC Basics

Principle Based Approach to Teaching NVC Basics

Principle Based Approach to Teaching NVC Basics

with Miki Kashtan

Video • 1 hour, 17 minutes •

Video
1 hour, 17 minutes

It’s one thing to share NVC with those who’re interested, but what about those who aren’t? How does meeting someone where they are create space for learning, and help you find a pathway forward? Miki Answers this and more.

Taking on the World: How to Become a Change Agent (12 Session Course)

Taking on the World: How to Become a Change Agent (12 Session Course)

Taking on the World: How to Become a Change Agent (12 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 14 - 18 hours •

Audio
14 - 18 hours

Are you eager to translate your vision of a world where everyone’s needs matter into a tangible reality? Do you long to discover your unique role in responding to the challenges of our times? If, so join Miki for 12 sessions that will propel you on your way!

Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

Principle Based Teaching (6 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 7 - 10 hours •

Audio
7 - 10 hours

The focus of this 6-session class is on shifting the intention of your teaching from how to why while embodying the principles and practice of NVC every step of the way - from planning to delivery. The methodology Miki offers is to start with understanding what the people in your audience face in their environment, continue with what they might want to learn and how NVC principles can provide...

No Need Left Behind: All Needs Matter in the Classroom - Including the Teachers!

No Need Left Behind: All Needs Matter in the Classroom - Including the Teachers!

No Need Left Behind: All Needs Matter in the Classroom - Including the Teachers!

with Lore Baur

Audio • 37 minutes •

Audio
37 minutes

CNVC Certified Trainer Lore Baur shares how, as a teacher, the classroom is a laboratory for learning NVC and incorporating the NVC consciousness into the classroom. Topics discussed include empathy, permission to educate, protective use of force, corrective action, choice & options and re-do.

Colloquial NVC Options

Colloquial NVC Options

Colloquial NVC Options

with Miki Kashtan

Learning Tool • 2 pages •

Learning Tool
2 pages

How can we express ourselves in a way that supports a natural flow of connection while maintaining a focus on NVC consciousness? This handout from CNVC Certified Trainer, Miki Kashtan, offers seven options that support NVC enthusiasts in evolving from classical to colloquial NVC language.

Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution

Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution

Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 9 pages •

Article
9 pages

Miki explains how teachers and administrators can become more effective in relating to themselves, other faculty and staff, and they can contribute more to students' ability to feel connected and energized. Nonviolent Communication provides specific tools to empower ourselves and others to live more in line with our values and deeper needs.

Hear the Needs

Hear the Needs

Hear the Needs

with Catherine Cadden

Video • 27 minutes •

Video
27 minutes

This is a documentary of the use of Nonviolent Communication at Euclid High School, Ohio, in a history class with a teacher practicing NVC accompanied by CNVC Certified Trainer Catherine Cadden. Remastered in February 2019 to reduce ambient noise.

NVC Games: A Fun Way to Learn NVC

NVC Games: A Fun Way to Learn NVC

NVC Games: A Fun Way to Learn NVC

with Gitta Zimmermann

Video • 1 hour, 12 minutes •

Video
1 hour, 12 minutes

In October 2018, CNVC Certified Trainer Gitta Zimmerman held her 6th international workshop for people working with children in Ruhpolding, Germany. This workshop video offers NVC learning games, complete with instructions!

"First Call for Children - the Power of my Dreams" NVC Workshop

"First Call for Children - the Power of my Dreams" NVC Workshop

"First Call for Children - the Power of my Dreams" NVC Workshop

with Gitta Zimmermann

Video • 1 hour, 10 minutes •

Video
1 hour, 10 minutes

In October 2016, CNVC Certified Trainer Gitta Zimmerman held her 5th international workshop for people working with street children in Ruhpolding, Germany. This time most of the participants were already experienced, and we were merging more and more into a family. The workshop focus was on “mediation” and “entrepreneurship.

Naturalizing NVC Language Q&A

Naturalizing NVC Language Q&A

Naturalizing NVC Language Q&A

with Jeff Brown, Jean Morrison, Kathleen Macferran, Karl Steyaert, Mary Mackenzie, Sylvia Haskvitz

Audio • 49 minutes •

Audio
49 minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jeff Brown, Jean Morrison, Karl Steyaert, Kathleen Macferran, Mary Mackenzie and Sylvia Haskvitz in a lively Q&A session focusing on naturalizing NVC into our daily interactions.

Conflict Improv: Connecting with Kids

Conflict Improv: Connecting with Kids

Conflict Improv: Connecting with Kids

with Christine King, Jean Morrison and Kelly Bryson

Video • 9 minutes •

Video
9 minutes

In this upbeat video, CNVC Certified Trainers Kelly Bryson, Christine King and Jean Morrison enact two role plays that involve a triggered adult interacting with a young student and a teacher who has just witnessed an unpleasant interaction between two students.

Inner Maps of Conflict

Inner Maps of Conflict

Inner Maps of Conflict

with John Kinyon

Audio • 9 minutes •

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.

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Step Into Your Vision

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Step Into Your Vision

Responding to the Call of Our Times - Step Into Your Vision

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour •

Audio
1 hour

Enjoy listening to Miki make the distinction between leadership as a position and leadership as an orientation to life. The theme: when is it time to actively step into your vision?! Check it out.

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