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Getting Past the Parenting "Shoulds": Compassionate Parenting Starts With Self-Acceptance

Getting Past the Parenting "Shoulds": Compassionate Parenting Starts With Self-Acceptance

Getting Past the Parenting "Shoulds": Compassionate Parenting Starts With Self-Acceptance

with Inbal Kashtan

Practice Exercise • 3 - 5 minutes •

Practice Exercise
3 - 5 minutes

Without self-acceptance any attempt at growth and transformation, even while parenting, can easily become a path to self-judgments and another yardstick against which to measure ourselves as falling short. Instead, we can practice 1 minute a day or more, or while doing other tasks, to develop the self-compassion and self-acceptance needed to grow both new habits and our capacity to meet our...

Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

Parenting with Nonviolent Communication

with Inbal Kashtan

Article • 16 - 24 minutes •

Article
16 - 24 minutes

This article aims to discuss shifting fully from power-over to sharing power in families; turning power struggles into dilemmas. It focuses on the topic of living in a partnership paradigm as a family...

Introduction to Using NVC in Parenting

Introduction to Using NVC in Parenting

Introduction to Using NVC in Parenting

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 38 minutes •

Video
38 minutes

In this brief video, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, offers a succinct and insightful overview for using Nonviolent Communication in your parenting role.

Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

with Inbal Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 4 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 4 minutes

Please join us as we remember the work and life of Inbal Kashtan. She offered this parenting Q&A session in NVC Academy's 2013 Parenting Conference.

Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)

Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)

Baby Giraffes: NVC Parenting of Children Under 5 (3 Session Course)

with Ingrid Bauer

Audio • 3 hours, 26 minutes •

Audio
3 hours, 26 minutes

This 3-part telecourse recording explores what it means to practice “power with” parenting with babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Ingrid has been teaching and writing about very young children for a decade and has a special passion for this age range.

Everyday Parenting Challenges

Everyday Parenting Challenges

Everyday Parenting Challenges

with Ingrid Bauer

Audio • 1 hour, 32 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 32 minutes

Ingrid guides parents to navigate everyday parenting challenges using the NVC model, such as the behavior of a frustrated child, a messy room, transition times and a child who collapses when things don't work out as she had hoped.

Connected Parenting: Making Observations

Connected Parenting: Making Observations

Connected Parenting: Making Observations

with Inbal Kashtan

Audio • 7 minutes •

Audio
7 minutes

In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, explores observation in contrast to interpretation, and leads an exercise in observation skills.

Connected Parenting: Everyone's Needs Matter

Connected Parenting: Everyone's Needs Matter

Connected Parenting: Everyone's Needs Matter

with Inbal Kashtan

Audio • 4 minutes •

Audio
4 minutes

In this brief audio snippet, CNVC Certified Trainer and founder of the CNVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan, offers a profound insight that can change how we see and relate to our children.

Parenting Series: Needs, Strategies and Partnership

Parenting Series: Needs, Strategies and Partnership

Parenting Series: Needs, Strategies and Partnership

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 9 minutes •

Video
9 minutes

Inbal clarifies the difference between needs and strategies, and why the distinction is important in our parenting role. She offers two questions to ask yourself if you're not certain whether something is a need or strategy.

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.

NVC Life Hacks 27: Compassionate Parenting

NVC Life Hacks 27: Compassionate Parenting

NVC Life Hacks 27: Compassionate Parenting

with Shantigarbha Warren

Video • 4 minutes •

Video
4 minutes

When the pressure is on whether that's rushing out the door for the school run or getting them to bed on time, it's easy to leave all our best practices to one side. Luckily Nonviolent Communication gives us some useful tools to add to our metaphorical parenting tool belt and today we're sharing 6 tips to help bring out the compassionate parent in you.

Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer

Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer

Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 8 minutes •

Video
8 minutes

In this video download, expert parent trainer and author of Parenting From Your Heart, Inbal Kashtan responds to the age-old question: "Why do children do things to annoy parents?"

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.

Parenting With A Focus On The Long-Term Goal

Parenting With A Focus On The Long-Term Goal

Parenting With A Focus On The Long-Term Goal

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Notice when you're tempted to wield physical, emotional, and intellectual power to get your children to do what you want. This coercion or force may bring short term ease, but long term it can be counterproductive. Ask yourself “What do I want my child to do?” and “What do I want my child’s reasons for doing it to be?”. Then consider ways to help them connect to their intrinsic...

Parenting Series: Understanding Requests and Demands

Parenting Series: Understanding Requests and Demands

Parenting Series: Understanding Requests and Demands

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 8 minutes •

Video
8 minutes

Inbal speaks to a group about our habit of demanding something of our children but making it sound like a request, the components of a true request and the importance of being honest when making a demand.

Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

Parenting Series: Listening for the Needs

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 15 minutes •

Video
15 minutes

Using her own and participants' examples, Inbal illuminates parents on where they might be struggling with connecting to their children's needs, especially in situations where the children are responding to the parent's request.

Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy

Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy

Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 14 minutes •

Video
14 minutes

Inbal offers parents and anyone with children in their life a lucid discussion of the important role self-empathy plays in creating healthy, supportive relationships.

Parenting Series: Compliance and the “Yes” Inside the “No”

Parenting Series: Compliance and the “Yes” Inside the “No”

Parenting Series: Compliance and the “Yes” Inside the “No”

with Inbal Kashtan

Video • 11 minutes •

Video
11 minutes

Inbal responds to the question "Is bribery an acceptable tool for compliance?' and helps us understand the five habitual reasons we do things.

Attachment and Connection as a Foundation for Parenting--and Life!

Attachment and Connection as a Foundation for Parenting--and Life!

Attachment and Connection as a Foundation for Parenting--and Life!

with Ingrid Bauer

Audio • 40 minutes •

Audio
40 minutes

Ingrid shares about the three primary keys of parenting & NVC, two child rearing models, developmental needs for children and how to foster secure attachment.

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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