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NVC Resources on Compassion

Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment (6 Session Course)

Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment (6 Session Course)

Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment (6 Session Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Audio • 7 - 10 hours •

Audio
7 - 10 hours

Living Compassion, for Robert, represents the spirituality that resides in every aspect of Nonviolent Communication. Its foundational principles are represented by three primary qualities or states of being: clarity, compassion and empowerment. In this course you’ll explore – and practice – how the unfolding of inner clarity opens your way to compassion, which further unfolds into empowerment....

Five Core Principles of Living Compassion and the Relationship of Needs to Spirituality

Five Core Principles of Living Compassion and the Relationship of Needs to Spirituality

Five Core Principles of Living Compassion and the Relationship of Needs to Spirituality

with Robert Gonzales

Audio • 8 minutes •

Audio
8 minutes

Listen to Robert describe the five core principles of Living Compassion and the relationship of needs to spirituality. Great material for reflection and reference!

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 22. Lead Yourself with Compassion

with Eric Bowers

Trainer Tip • 3 - 5 minutes •

Trainer Tip
3 - 5 minutes

Eric offers some tips for nurturing and affirming ourselves as a daily practice.

NVC and the Enneagram: Expanding Awareness, Connection and Compassion (3 Session Course)

NVC and the Enneagram: Expanding Awareness, Connection and Compassion (3 Session Course)

NVC and the Enneagram: Expanding Awareness, Connection and Compassion (3 Session Course)

with Jean Morrison and Sylvia Haskvitz

Audio • 2 hours, 42 minutes •

Audio
2 hours, 42 minutes

Join Sylvia and Jean in this fascinating exploration of NVC and the Enneagram, a system of nine basic personality types.

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.

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

Patterns, Privilege and Compassion

with Sarah Peyton

Video • 8 minutes •

Video
8 minutes

How does it benefit you and the world to learn about privilege? How can NVC and Interpersonal Neurobiology help you see yourself and your patterns with compassion? How does using empathy address brain structures and patterns that have been embedded in privilege? Listen to Sarah’s answers.

Evaluating Ourselves with Compassion

Evaluating Ourselves with Compassion

Evaluating Ourselves with Compassion

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Every time you criticize yourself, you cause yourself to feel shame and guilt, which promotes depression and stagnation. Instead, bringing in more self compassion can increase opportunities for change. Do this by acknowledging your needs (or values) that aren’t met by your actions. Read on for how to do this.

Exercise In Self Compassion

Exercise In Self Compassion

Exercise In Self Compassion

with Robert Gonzales

Practice Exercise • 1- 3 minutes •

Practice Exercise
1- 3 minutes

With this exercise you'll choose an experience you had with someone where your needs were not met. You'll work with the related feelings, judgements, values, and feeling the fullness of the need even though it was not met, plus any sadness that may arise.

Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

with LoraKim Joyner, DVM

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

Join LoraKim Joyner to investigate how merging science, the social and emotional intelligence of humans, animals and other species and Nonviolent Communication can bring a greater sense of belonging and wholeness to your life, and care and justice to the lives of others.

Embodying Compassion Exercise

Embodying Compassion Exercise

Embodying Compassion Exercise

with Robert Gonzales

Practice Exercise • 30 minutes •

Practice Exercise
30 minutes

Grow your compassionate presence with this 3-process exercise. The processes include: Connecting to and feeling the Life Impulse meditation, Creating your own inner space of compassionate presence exercise, and the Compassionately Embracing visualization. These processes will guide you toward deeper self connection and compassionate presence.

Covert Compassion

Covert Compassion

Covert Compassion

with Jeff Brown

Audio • 7 minutes •

Audio
7 minutes

Interested in bringing NVC consciousness to your workplace, but want to use a natural and conversational way of speaking? Listen in as Jeff describes three specific skills you can apply immediately: #1: How to express your understanding of a co-worker’s needs; #2: How to apply the three dimensions of needs in a business setting; and #3: How to make a Symbiotic Request that acknowledges holding...

Cradle of Compassion (Connecting with Request Energy)

Cradle of Compassion (Connecting with Request Energy)

Cradle of Compassion (Connecting with Request Energy)

with Jim & Jori Manske

Trainer Tip • 3 - 5 minutes •

Trainer Tip
3 - 5 minutes

Here are two practices for connecting with "request energy". One of them helps us practice in the moment (7 steps). The other one helps us connect to ourselves (11 steps).

Inner Space And Compassion

Inner Space And Compassion

Inner Space And Compassion

with Robert Gonzales

Practice Exercise • 1- 2 minutes •

Practice Exercise
1- 2 minutes

Here's guidance on how to approach your inner experience when triggered or stuck in a distressing life experience. Self-Compassion in life can be experienced as: "There is room for life experience in me. There is an open space for ‘what is’ to be fully present in my inner experience". This exercise is more about tracing your felt experience than verbalizing it.

Living the Self-in-Life: Presence and Self-Compassion

Living the Self-in-Life: Presence and Self-Compassion

Living the Self-in-Life: Presence and Self-Compassion

with Robert Gonzales

Audio • 30 minutes •

Audio
30 minutes

During this very moving session, you'll dive into Robert's exercises for supporting connection to your true self as opposed to your conditioned self.

An Introduction to Self-Compassion (10 Session Course)

An Introduction to Self-Compassion (10 Session Course)

An Introduction to Self-Compassion (10 Session Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Audio • 11 hours, 12 minutes •

Audio
11 hours, 12 minutes

In this 10 session telecourse recording, world renowned CNVC Certified Trainer Robert Gonzales will help you discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence.

Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion

Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion

Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 39 - 60 minutes •

Article
39 - 60 minutes

If we're to have a better future, our biggest task will be to reexamine what the police are, their place in the system, and more. Police violence exists by systemic design. The myths of where the problems and symptoms lie with the police, capitalism, laws, government, citizens, class and racism --plus the relationship between all these-- is what keeps oppression ongoing on a mass scale. For...

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

Heartbreak For Self And The World Holding Our Broken Hearts With Compassion

with Sarah Peyton

Article • 3 - 5 minutes •

Article
3 - 5 minutes

When we're received with resonant understanding painful moments can lessen their charge and became part of the whole tapestry of life -- important but no longer able to hijack us into the eternal re-run of pain. When held this way, we can touch the memories with our attention the way one touches a newly repaired tooth with the tongue, searching for the old roughness, the old wound, but not...

Embracing the Body: Learning Compassion as a “Felt-Sense”

Embracing the Body: Learning Compassion as a “Felt-Sense”

Embracing the Body: Learning Compassion as a “Felt-Sense”

with Dian Killian

Article • 5 - 8 minutes •

Article
5 - 8 minutes

Our "felt-sense" can provide crucial information about our experience and our lives. It can also help us integrate and retain information. This can also bring greater access to internal resources, choice, open heartedness, collaboration and creative solutions. From there, profound insight and transformation can follow. Here's how we can harness that...

Compassion: Mature, Astute & Courageous

Compassion: Mature, Astute & Courageous

Compassion: Mature, Astute & Courageous

with Rachelle Lamb

Article • 10 - 15 minutes •

Article
10 - 15 minutes

Getting "feel good" empathy can become an addiction. Even to the point of seeing people who don't offer empathy as "not being NVC". Rachelle urges us to notice how this view of NVC can be seductive, and even dangerous. In this article, she explains how we can expand our compassionate awareness when we go beyond equating NVC with harmony and empathy. She asks us to become more open to noticing...

Embodying the Consciousness of NVC (6 Session Course)

Embodying the Consciousness of NVC (6 Session Course)

Embodying the Consciousness of NVC (6 Session Course)

with Robert Gonzales

Audio • 5 hours, 45 minutes •

Audio
5 hours, 45 minutes

Please join veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, Robert Gonzales, to explore how you can embody the consciousness of NVC and live every moment of every day in the fullness of compassion - for yourself and others.

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