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  1. Street NVC

    Street NVC

    "Street Ease" Empathy Exercise

    Dian Killian

    Practice Exercises · 5 minutes · 02/26/2020

    Listen to CNVC Certified Trainer Dian Killian guide and ease you into a more natural expression of empathy. This is a three person exercise. Listen in and then give it a try!

  2. Poetic License

    Poetic License

    Christine King, Jean Morrison

    Practice Exercises · N/A · 3/16/2011

    Poetic License is a fun group exercise that's sure to incite laughter in your NVC group!

  3. Emerging

    Emerging

    Practicing Awareness of Emergence

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Trainer Tips · 3 - 5 minutes · 5/11/2020

    This exercise explains four stages of the "Need Cycle": Fulfilled, Emerging, Urgent, Satisfying. It asks us to consider, connect and identify needs, feelings and where we are in the Need Cycle. Then it prompts us to remain mindful of the need for sustenance as we move through the cycle, noticing the subtle shifts in your physical sensations and emotions.

  4. The Wheel of Awareness

    The Wheel of Awareness

    Gina Cenciose, Shulamit Berlevtov

    Practice Exercises · 11 minutes · 7/9/2015

    Join CNVC Certified Trainer and Certified Focusing Teacher Shulamit Berlevtov in this brief exercise called the Wheel of Awareness. This exercise will help you become aware of how to distinguish and differentiate your life experience.

  5. Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel

    Tuning in to the Gratitude Channel

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 52 minutes · 10/25/2011

    CNVC Certified Trainers Jim and Jori Manske show you how to tune into the "Gratitude Channel," sharing exercises and practices to hone your awareness toward gratitude.

  6. Join Jim Manske for practice exercises that will help you navigate away from reactivity toward a more compassionate way of being in the world, and learn to express vulnerable honesty (scary honesty)

  7. Inspired by Marshall Rosenberg's teachings, Kathleen Macferran's self-empathy exercise offers a transformative approach for those challenging moments when you fall short of your own expectations.
  8. Crafting Connection Requests

    Crafting Connection Requests

    Inbal Kashtan, Miki Kashtan

    Practice Exercises · 2 - 3 minutes · 11/14/2021

    Try this four step exercise for making connection requests to support understanding, and to learn what effect your words had on the listener. In this exercise you'll choose a situation where you have clarity about what outcome will really work for you (your solution request), but where you imagine your desired outcome may not work for the other person, and/or are not sure there is sufficient connection for mutual trust.

  9. Guidelines And Suggestions For Empathy Buddy Calls

    Guidelines And Suggestions For Empathy Buddy Calls

    Eric Bowers

    Trainer Tips · 4 - 6 minutes · 1/13/2022

    Here are 10 tips for empathy buddy practice. It includes a handout identifying 15 non-empathy responses to step aside from when you practice.

  10. Expressing Anger Peacefully

    Expressing Anger Peacefully

    Raj Gill

    Audio · 1 hour, 16 minutes · 7/29/2010

    In this prerecorded telecourse, Raj Gil uses an interactive dialogue and proven exercises to help you develop a profoundly healthy response to anger, right in the moment.

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