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NVC Resources on Trauma


Trauma and Sanctuary

Trauma and Sanctuary

Trauma and Sanctuary

with Bob Wentworth
Article • 3 - 5 minutes • 
Article
3 - 5 minutes
One clue we have trauma is when we respond in a way we don't want (eg. being reactive, self sabotaging, etc). Even when we have high level NVC skills our trauma-related mechanisms can activate, and we can lose access to well honed NVC skills. Read on for approaches that involve healing trauma, and approaches that involve managing the effects of trauma and preventing additional trauma.
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Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

Getting Past Childhood Trauma To Transform Your Chronic Jackal Messages (8 Session Course)

with Susan Skye
Audio • 7 - 9 hours • 
Audio
7 - 9 hours
Join Susan Skye as she guides you to experience profound transformation of the inner jackal messages resulting from childhood trauma. Discover how the limbic system of the brain works, and transform jackal messages stored there with compassionate connection.
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From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line

with Sarah Peyton
Article • 6-9 minutes • 
Article
6-9 minutes
Our everyday personal experiences of diminishment, and the destruction of our planet has a through-line. Societal traumas lead to us shutting down to avoid pain, and this limits us. The avoidance shifts our brains so we don’t see other beings, species and our planet as wondrous, precious and irreplaceable. Thus, we meet others with diminishment, oblivion, or abuse; trauma keeps passing on. This...
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Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

Change Is Afoot: A New Paradigm For First Responses After Difficult Events

with Sarah Peyton
Article • 9 - 14 minutes • 
Article
9 - 14 minutes
One way to understand trauma is it means we got a blow greater than our nervous system can tolerate – then we move into hyperarousal, and then hypoarousal or dissociation. This cycle can continue long after. Here, we're not able to fully process emotional cues, information, our body, and others. It's important we consider re-writing the cultural paradigm of separation so that our trauma doesn't...
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Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

Healing Addiction With Unconscious Contract Work

with Sarah Peyton
Article • 5 - 8 minutes • 
Article
5 - 8 minutes
An addiction to something (eg. opioids, fats, sugars, salts, cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, etc.) or a compulsion (eg. gambling, shopping, working, sex or love addictions) is often an unconscious attempt to soothe trauma - fear, loneliness and shame that's frozen in unconscious memory. The addiction or compulsion is a substitute for what we really need. It is an endless craving that's never...
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Adding Active Bystander Skills to Your NVC Toolkit

Adding Active Bystander Skills to Your NVC Toolkit

Adding Active Bystander Skills to Your NVC Toolkit

with Lore Baur
Video • 44 minutes • 
Video
44 minutes
CNVC Certified Trainer Lore Baur asks: "Have you ever seen something happen that made you feel uncomfortable and you didn't know what to do?" That's the "bystander effect:" a well-researched and commonly experienced phenomenon. Training can help you overcome it, enabling you to discern what to do and how to support others in ways that reduce trauma and increase safety.
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Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

with Eric Bowers
Article • 4 - 6 minutes • 
Article
4 - 6 minutes
What's really going on underneath the surface when we bring or encounter blame, judgements, pain -- and thereby the inability to empathize, be present, attuned, or responsive? Why does this happen even if one or more people in a relationship dynamic is working hard at bringing in an NVC response? This article addresses these and more questions from the perspective of how our brains are affected...
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Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

Tips for the Road Series: Tip 14. Admit to it Too

with Eric Bowers
Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes • 
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
It can be challenging to tell people that you don’t like a certain behaviour or action of theirs. Even with supportive intentions and compassionate language your message might be difficult for someone to receive. Of course, we are not responsible for others’ reactions, but we are responsible to care about each other, and there are effective ways to express ourselves with more care.
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Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

Gender Through the Lens of IPNB plus Empathy

with Sarah Peyton
Article • 4 - 6 minutes • 
Article
4 - 6 minutes
Our pattern-making minds make predictions about how best to survive in the world. So deep wounds from our past can influence our minds to make life long generalizations that harden into core beliefs about groups of people. Read on for a demonstration of how empathy can shift these wounds and thus the core beliefs.
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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...
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Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

Understanding and Healing from Bullying, Giving and Receiving

with Sarah Peyton
Article • 6 - 9 minutes • 
Article
6 - 9 minutes
When bullying occurs, if we do our own healing, our brains can become more sharp and present and willing to take action to connect and to begin to shift and mitigate the harm that trauma does in our world. We can reduce trauma inflicted upon others when we recognize the patterns of abuse and bullying, hold zero tolerance for it, bring in support for both sides of the conflict, and take action...
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Anatomy of a Trigger: Change Your Focus and Improve the Outcome

Anatomy of a Trigger: Change Your Focus and Improve the Outcome

Anatomy of a Trigger: Change Your Focus and Improve the Outcome

with Mary Mackenzie
Article • 7-10 minutes • 
Article
7-10 minutes
When you or anyone is upset, what could underneath the trigger? There may be more than is immediately visible. This article invites us to explore what it looks like to inquire deeper, take self-responsibility, examine our assumptions, attachments, interpretations, and "certainties" that could be hidden behind the needs that are aching to be attended to...
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Self Empathy/Regulation Process

Self Empathy/Regulation Process

Self Empathy/Regulation Process

with Eric Bowers
Practice Exercise • 30 minutes • 
Practice Exercise
30 minutes
Building your body and mind awareness can help you better regulate/calm your emotions. Regular self-empathy will help you better regulate your emotions as well as increase your body and mind awareness. If you are not aware of amygdala activation(fight/flight/freeze response), you will react instead of responding with choice. Use this eight step process to develop your self empathy/regulation...
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