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NVC Resources on Leadership


Embracing Leadership within Yourself (4 Session Course)

Embracing Leadership within Yourself (4 Session Course)

Embracing Leadership within Yourself (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 4 - 6 hours • 
Audio
4 - 6 hours
Join Miki as she covers a lot of territory, defining leadership, helping us lead when we're not in the leadership chair, showing us how to have power in every moment and engage our fear instead of let it run us. Get some powerful leadership tools you can put to use today.
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What is Leadership?

What is Leadership?

What is Leadership?

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 51 minutes • 
Audio
51 minutes
What specifically is leadership? And why do so many people step back from it? Listen in as Miki shares her experience and thoughts around changing the paradigm of leadership, as well as the role – and challenges – of using NVC when working for social change.
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"I'm Not Good Enough" and Other Leadership Myths

"I'm Not Good Enough" and Other Leadership Myths

"I'm Not Good Enough" and Other Leadership Myths

with Roxy Manning
Article • 7-11 mins • 
Article
7-11 mins
Do you yearn to step forward in leadership, but know you're holding back? Clinical psychologist, organizational consultant, and speaker, Roxy Manning, PhD, shows us that more than external factors, its our internal beliefs and fears that provide the main barrier to moving forward. She does this by taking us through three myths of leadership, and weaves in anecdotes to illustrate how tapping our...
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Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

Leadership within Your Workplace (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 4 - 6 hours • 
Audio
4 - 6 hours
Most of us believe we are powerless at work – even if we’re the one “in charge.” This course offers you the opportunity to learn how to consciously change this mindset, and have a positive impact on workplace culture and attitudes along the way. Most of us believe we are powerless at work – even if we’re the one “in charge.” This course offers you the opportunity to learn how to consciously...
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Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

Leadership Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement

with Roxy Manning
Article • 6 - 9 minutes • 
Article
6 - 9 minutes
When we have few external resources (money, time, health connections, etc), we can still empower ourselves and one another. We can strengthen our internal resources, inspire people to join our cause, build solidarity, and influence others who have external resources to support us and our causes.
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Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

Listening as an Essential Leadership Skill

with Lorraine Aguilar
Audio • 8 minutes • 
Audio
8 minutes
Lorraine Aguilar perceives NVC-based listening to be an essential skill to cultivate for success in the business world. A key exercise for building your listening muscle is to work with your judgments of others by translating those judgments from “What’s wrong with them?” to “What's important to me?”
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Understanding White Privilege as a 21st Century Leadership Capacity

Understanding White Privilege as a 21st Century Leadership Capacity

Understanding White Privilege as a 21st Century Leadership Capacity

with Shakti Butler
Video • 1 hour, 41 minutes • 
Video
1 hour, 41 minutes
Working on social justice and racial equity? If you include attending to white culture and privilege as part of that work, you'll reap important benefits. Understanding white culture — along with its embedded historical privileges — provides valuable insight into a larger system of inequity.
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Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go (4 Session Course)

Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go (4 Session Course)

Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 6 - 8 hours • 
Audio
6 - 8 hours
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed – or locked into passivity? This course offers you a way out. Learn to change the way you perceive leadership, and you’ll help yourself respond more powerfully and proactively every day of your life – wherever you are – and whomever you’re with!
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Taking 100% Responsibility for Every Relationship (4 Session Course)

Taking 100% Responsibility for Every Relationship (4 Session Course)

Taking 100% Responsibility for Every Relationship (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 4 - 6 hours • 
Audio
4 - 6 hours
Taking 100% Responsibility offers a powerful antidote to the all-too-common dynamic of blaming that leaves you in the victim position and unable to have the relationship you want. Miki invites you to assume a stance of leadership while holding full care for both parties’ needs. No longer will you need to wait for the other person to change, nor will you need to give up your needs to reach...
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The Zero Step

The Zero Step

The Zero Step

with Jim & Jori Manske
Audio • 41 minutes • 
Audio
41 minutes
Jori and Jim Manske offer a process they call "The Zero Step," encompassing the characteristics of warmth toward self and other, care for the vitality of both yourself and other(s), wonder/interest, vulnerability and empathy, which leads directly to connection requests and an openness to outcome.
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