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How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

How to Energize Compassion in Yourself and Family Members this Holiday Season

with Mary Mackenzie
Audio • 46 minutes • 
Audio
46 minutes
This holiday, shift your focus from what disappoints you to the true whisperings of your heart. Compassion is an inside-outside process. In this telecourse recording, you will experience four simple tools for savoring your own precious needs, allowing you to experience greater compassion and harmony this holiday.
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How to Survive the Holidays: 6 Communication Tips

How to Survive the Holidays: 6 Communication Tips

How to Survive the Holidays: 6 Communication Tips

with Oren Jay Sofer
Article • 6 - 10 minutes • 
Article
6 - 10 minutes
For many, spending time with relatives over the holidays may be challenging. In addition to the love and care we may feel, family gatherings can bring up old hurts or expose painful differences. How many family meals have been marred by tense silence or devolved into harsh argument?
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The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC (6 Session Course)

The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC (6 Session Course)

The Basics of Partnership Parenting Using NVC (6 Session Course)

with Ingrid Bauer
Audio • 7 hours, 29 minutes • 
Audio
7 hours, 29 minutes
As parents, we often face challenging situations on a daily basis and struggle to create what we most long for. In this 6 session telecourse recording, you will learn how Nonviolent Communication can support a family culture where cooperation, trust, and peace are nurtured, and children and parents can flourish together.
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Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (5 Session Course)

Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (5 Session Course)

Parenting and Anger: Walking the Ultimate Path to Peace (5 Session Course)

with John Kinyon and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei
Audio • 6 - 8 hours • 
Audio
6 - 8 hours
John and Stephanie combine mediating conflict, parenting and study of brain science to this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace.
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Bridging the Gap: Practical Support for Parents of Grown Sons and Daughters (4 Session Course)

Bridging the Gap: Practical Support for Parents of Grown Sons and Daughters (4 Session Course)

Bridging the Gap: Practical Support for Parents of Grown Sons and Daughters (4 Session Course)

with Selene Aitken
Audio • 4 - 6 hours • 
Audio
4 - 6 hours
Learn tools to help you reconnect and repair your relationship with your adult children. Whether the issues are estrangement, lack of trust, conflict, dependence, miscommunication or any other challenge that impacts you with your grown sons and daughters, your heart will find comfort and ease through this course.
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Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

Reconciliation & Healing of Interpersonal Pain: Working with Marshall Rosenberg’s Four Part Process

with John Kinyon
Audio • 2 hours, 5 minutes • 
Audio
2 hours, 5 minutes
Experience John Kinyon's application of NVC Founder Marshall Rosenberg's 4-part model of reconciliation and healing, a model he developed over the course of decades of work with people around the world who have experienced the deep pain of violence.
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Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

with Christine King, Faye Landey, Liv Larsson, Mary Mackenzie and Rita Herzog
Audio • 1 hour, 24 minutes • 
Audio
1 hour, 24 minutes
Please join us as we take a look at what disrupts our joy during the holidays… and discuss the delicious possibilities that abound when we declare our intention to "Greet the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart."
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Mediating Conflict with Kids

Mediating Conflict with Kids

Mediating Conflict with Kids

with Stephanie Bachmann Mattei
Audio • 48 minutes • 
Audio
48 minutes
In this stimulating audio recording, Stephanie Mattei covers several "hot" parenting topics such as: boundary issues, strategy resilience, how to shift your right/wrong mentality and understanding the concept of fairness. While unraveling these topics, Stephanie intersperses some practical neuroscience around brain regulation and brain-wise conflict prevention.
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NVC Life Hacks 34: When working from home clashes with home life

NVC Life Hacks 34: When working from home clashes with home life

NVC Life Hacks 34: When working from home clashes with home life

with Shantigarbha Warren
Video • 18 minutes • 
Video
18 minutes
Have you been struggling with the difficulties that can arise from working at home? If you're used to working from an office, a space that is designed for work, it can be a shock working from a space that is usually associated with other kinds of activities. In this Life Hack, we look at ways that NVC can help you deal with potential conflicts that arise.
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