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NVC Resources on Dialogue


Dialogue with Anyone About Anything (4 Session Course)

Dialogue with Anyone About Anything (4 Session Course)

Dialogue with Anyone About Anything (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 4 hours • 
Audio
4 hours
A chosen, interdependent world… In most cases, that's sure not the world we live in today, is it. But it could be the world we live in tomorrow. And you can choose to be part of bringing that better world to life – to be part of a gradual, joyful transformation – simply by using the dynamic, living power of Dialogue.
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Dialogue within Communities (4 Session Course)

Dialogue within Communities (4 Session Course)

Dialogue within Communities (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 5 - 7 hours • 
Audio
5 - 7 hours
Dialogue is a life-changing, heart-opening experience. It’s collaboration instead of compromise. Join Miki Kashtan for a practical, step-by-step framework to help you understand how a community develops, how to maintain or repair a community, and how this unique process creatively supports you and each member of your community in getting things done.
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Dialogue in the Workplace (5 Session Course)

Dialogue in the Workplace (5 Session Course)

Dialogue in the Workplace (5 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 6 - 8 hours • 
Audio
6 - 8 hours
One of the key challenges of engaging in dialogue in the workplace is that – while we are all equally human – the norms of the workplace make honest and open dialogue challenging, especially when power differences are present. This course offers a plethora of considerations and tips designed to allow you to humanize your relationships at work, focus on your common goals, and bring more...
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Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity

Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity

Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Practice Exercise • 6 - 9 minutes • 
Practice Exercise
6 - 9 minutes
When there's quality connection then collaboration and creativity generosity of heart can come. Then strategies honoring everyone’s needs are easier. This requires us to trust connection, hear needs, brainstorm, experiment, prepare, and hold confidence that everyone’s needs can be met. Needs-based negotiation starts there. What derails this? Feeling urgency, listening from our (dis)likes or...
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Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

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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Transformative Dialogue

Transformative Dialogue

Transformative Dialogue

with Oren Jay Sofer
Article • N/A • 
Article
N/A
The less blame and criticism, the easier it is for others to hear us. From this perspective, it’s in our best interest to come from curiosity and care. This way differences can bring us together and help us know one another. The more mutual understanding, the easier it is to work together and find creative solutions. Read on for more on this, with a story about how a black man inspired 200...
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Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)

Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)

Dialogue with the World at Large (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 7 - 9 hours • 
Audio
7 - 9 hours
A chosen, interdependent world… In most cases, that's sure not the world we live in today, is it. But it could be the world we live in tomorrow. And you can choose to be part of bringing that better world to life – to be part of a gradual, joyful transformation – simply by using the dynamic, living power of Dialogue.
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Preparing for Difficult Dialogue

Preparing for Difficult Dialogue

Preparing for Difficult Dialogue

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 3-5 minutes • 
Article
3-5 minutes
Effective and connected dialogue requires significant self-awareness, mindfulness, and skill. You can focus on any of these six areas that most often escape your awareness: anchoring and staying grounded; boundaries; thoughts and beliefs; stuckness or attachment; feelings and needs; and requests. Read on for a list of questions to help you focus on how to do that.
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Dialogues with Our Shame

Dialogues with Our Shame

Dialogues with Our Shame

with Giorgos Tsitsirigkos
Video • 45 minutes • 
Video
45 minutes
During this session, Giorgos will walk you through a series of short, meditative practices and exercises designed to help you practice noticing, experiencing, and bringing shame to light — transforming it from a burden to a playful fellow as well as a portal to self-knowledge and internal freedom. You'll discover how the deep power of human connectedness can dilute the fogginess of sensitive...
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3 Simple Keys To Dissolving Reactivity In Dialogue

3 Simple Keys To Dissolving Reactivity In Dialogue

3 Simple Keys To Dissolving Reactivity In Dialogue

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Practice Exercise • 7 - 10 minutes • 
Practice Exercise
7 - 10 minutes
Reactivity can be big or subtle. Pressuring yourself or someone to be or do a certain way without trying to understand them with curiosity, is a form of reactivity. Reactivity can create much damage in the short and long term. Catch it early –through discernment, transparency, and remembering that connection is key– and you can foster more open and fulfilling relationships.
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Staying Self-Connected in a Challenging Dialogue

Staying Self-Connected in a Challenging Dialogue

Staying Self-Connected in a Challenging Dialogue

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Article • 6-9 minutes • 
Article
6-9 minutes
When we're judging we're less able to access both what we care about and constructive next actions. Instead, create more internal space and agency starting with connecting to your feelings and needs; then feel your grief or disappointment; followed by getting curious about the other party's needs and context -- and then based on collective needs and the long term effects make requests or take...
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Not Trusting the “Yes”

Not Trusting the “Yes”

Not Trusting the “Yes”

with Miki Kashtan
Audio • 24 minutes • 
Audio
24 minutes
In this audio recording, Miki demonstrates how to stay in a dialogue when you don't trust someone's "yes," how to equalize power between people and how to allow space for others to say "no" to our requests. In this 2-part audio series, Miki demonstrates how to stay in a dialogue when you don’t trust someone’s “yes,” how to equalize power between people and how to allow space for others to say...
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Two Basics That Support Conflict Resolution

Two Basics That Support Conflict Resolution

Two Basics That Support Conflict Resolution

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Practice Exercise • 4 - 6 minutes • 
Practice Exercise
4 - 6 minutes
Connecting with self and other is key to care and creativity. Before dialogue connect with your intention and needs for being with grief, fear or pain, and empathy. Dialogue when you're both rested, fed, and have spaciousness. Start by expressing care and desire to find mutually satisfying solutions. To deepen connection you may repeat what you hear and ask the other person to do the same.
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Can the Social Order Be Transformed Through Personal Practice? - Part 2

Can the Social Order Be Transformed Through Personal Practice? - Part 2

Can the Social Order Be Transformed Through Personal Practice? - Part 2

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 18 - 27 minutes • 
Article
18 - 27 minutes
We can't alone (nor with lone communities) transform the hidden structures of violence and domination. Dialogue alone isn't disruptive enough. We can easily be in dialogue with Trump supporters while the planet burns up, millions are still hungry, and we go extinct. NVC seriously risks reinforcing vast inequities and abuses if we're not radically engaging systemic constraints, and impacts of...
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Is Nonviolent Use of Force an Oxymoron?

Is Nonviolent Use of Force an Oxymoron?

Is Nonviolent Use of Force an Oxymoron?

with Miki Kashtan
Article • 37 - 56 minutes • 
Article
37 - 56 minutes
What do we actually mean by “use of force” and what counts as such? Here's a template that will be unpacked in this article: "Use of force is consistent with nonviolence to the extent that we use the least amount of force possible, with the most love possible, aiming at (re)creating conditions for dialogue; that we make the choice using as much nonreactive discernment as possible, with as much...
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