NVC Resources on Enemy Images

What Are Enemy Images?

Audio • 5 minutes •

Audio
5 minutes

In this compelling interview with Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer from Sweden, the NVC concept of enemy images — how they develop, what they represent and how they affect our relationships with others and self — is explored.

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Dissolving Enemy Images

with Francois Beausoleil

Audio • 34 minutes •

Audio
34 minutes

Francois shares the benefits of living in the Blame Free State, the state of the heart that has no enemies. Dissolve your enemy images.

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Enemy Images

with Mary Mackenzie

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes •

Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer tip: Judging others can affect our ability to communicate effectively with that person, or enjoy the relationship. Translating the static judgments (enemy images) we have of others into our own and others' feelings and needs can help us move into greater understanding, healing, and relief -- which can foster compassion and connection. Read on for more.

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Enemy Images Process and Exercise

with Jeff Brown

Practice Exercise • N/A •

Practice Exercise
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Ask the Trainer: "What guidance do you have for working with enemy images? Can you say some things about processes and/or exercises that can bring relief from this trap?"

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Inner Maps of Conflict

with John Kinyon

Audio • 9 minutes •

Audio
9 minutes

In this brief audio segment, John Kinyon offers a guided tour of our inner maps of conflict, including interpersonal mediation, chooser/educator, enemy images and making amends maps.

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Martin Luther King Jr: Seeing the Redeeming Qualities in Others

with Eddie Zacapa

Article • 3 - 5 minutes •

Article
3 - 5 minutes

For us to open the door to seemlingly impossible societal changes, we need to find and transform enemy images in order to influence and collaborate with those who seem to be standing in our way. Here's an anecdote to show that this is what lead to Martin Luther King Jr's success in creating social change.

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Living Without Enemies

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 18 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 18 minutes

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you.

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Houses of Healing: Kathleen Macferran at TEDx

with Kathleen Macferran

Video • 15 minutes •

Video
15 minutes

Are we really safer when we put those who harm others behind bars and forget about them? Explore turning our prisons into houses of healing and creating connections that lead to greater safety for our communities.

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Healing and Reconciliation (7 Session Course)

with Ike Lasater and John Kinyon

Audio • 7 - 9 hours •

Audio
7 - 9 hours

Old emotional hurts and pains can easily erupt when you’re in the throes of conflict – even if you’re the mediator. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could avoid all of that, and instead create more peace and happiness for yourself, your family, your co-workers and your community?

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Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

Practice Exercise • 12 -17 mins •

Practice Exercise
12 -17 mins

How to maintain conscious connection and compassion as you grapple with the tragic violence in Ukraine? Here we'll look at dissolving enemy images we have, inviting mourning, maintaining self connection that benefits our global community, creating ideas for action, acknowledging the power of what we envision, and engaging in an exercise for applying consciousness and skills to an imaginary...

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Peace Is Possible (4 Session Course)

with Hema Pokharna PhD and Mandakini Pokharna MD

Audio • 4 hours, 25 minutes •

Audio
4 hours, 25 minutes

Listen to this 4-session telecourse recording with CNVC Certified Trainer, Hema Pokharna, PhD and her sister, Manda Pokharna, MD, and you will learn simple steps for transforming conflicts and mobilizing peace at home, at work and in the world.

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Choice in the Face of Demands

with Arnina Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 8 minutes

No one likes demands. Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she provides tools to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic.

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Responding to the Call of Our Times - Step Into Your Vision

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 1 hour •

Audio
1 hour

Enjoy listening to Miki make the distinction between leadership as a position and leadership as an orientation to life. The theme: when is it time to actively step into your vision?! Check it out.

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Fear of Negative Consequences

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 8 minutes •

Audio
8 minutes

Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible, and that nonviolence is a powerful alternative to our habitual Fight, Flight, Freeze responses.

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Let it RAIN!

with Jim Manske

Article • 5 - 8 minutes •

Article
5 - 8 minutes

This article outlines a four-part transformation process to help us recognize what's giving rise to our suffering and resentment -- and transform it into more freedom, creativity, and choice.

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Practical Ideas to Keep Workplace Relationships Satisfying

with Sylvia Haskvitz

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Workplace relationships are complex. Each employee brings their unique self to work. Their background, perspective, emotional triggers, and working style. Add to this the dynamics of power relations, and the fact that often workplace communication now takes place at our computer keyboards rather than face-to-face. Sylvia Haskvitz offers practical tips to make today's complex workplace...

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The Power of Forgiveness

with Rodger Sorrow

Audio • 48 minutes •

Audio
48 minutes

Delve into the power of forgiveness with Rodger Sorrow! Listen in as Rodger explores 3 areas: asking for forgiveness, when it's hard to forgive, and forgiving ourselves.

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Sowing the Quilt of Connection

with Jim & Jori Manske

Audio • 1 hour, 3 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 3 minutes

Jim Manske offers practices to stay in dialogue without defensiveness, especially when it's difficult. Listen to Jim discuss the refining of our commitment to connection and how to respond to others' defensiveness too.

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Transforming Anger: The Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral

with John Kinyon

Audio • 1 hour, 11 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 11 minutes

Transforming anger is a key practice for returning to conscious presence and connection with self and others when triggered into a reaction. Join John Kinyon to learn this essential life skill through the Enemy Image Process and Learning/Growth Spiral.

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Expressing and Receiving “No” in NVC Consciousness

with John Kinyon

Audio • 1 hour, 21 minutes •

Audio
1 hour, 21 minutes

How we deal with “no” is a litmus test of our state of consciousness around power. Listen as John works with participants as they learn to give and receive a "no" from a consciousness of interpersonal connection.

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