Maximizing Success With Your Sustainability Plan
Practice Exercise
1- 2 minutes
02/26/2022
Use this exercise to increase your likelihood of successful follow-through with your sustainability plan, by releasing fear energy and developing support structures that help you carry out your plan. Here you'll engage the goals that pertain to money, meaning and self care.
Things We Know and Forget
Learning Tool
3 - 5 minutes
7/5/2022
Here's a list of 13 essential reminders to help you examine how you think, listen and communicate both internally with yourself and outwardly with others while also reminding you to hold within your awareness important basic truths about what it means to be human and to relate.
Understanding The Obstacle of Limiting Beliefs With Regard To Making Requests
Understanding The Obstacle of Limiting Beliefs With Regard To Making Requests
Understanding The Obstacle of Limiting Beliefs With Regard To Making Requests
Practice Exercise
2-3 minutes
05/25/2022
When you attempt to make a request what limiting beliefs come up? See if you recognize any from this list. Then compassionately observe your body sensations, impulses, feelings, needs, memories, energy, and images. In making the request ensure your request is connected to your needs, is doable, what you want, and not attached to them saying yes.
Tips for Bringing NVC to Work
Video
15 minutes
7/2/2022
Listen in as Dian shares her tips and sense of urgency around bringing NVC skills to work: 1) How to use your imagination (visualization!) to help you connect with somatic responses and needs; and 2) Five built-in advantages to sharing NVC in the work place.
Celebrate Yourself!
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
05/14/2022
Trainer Tip: At least once today celebrate yourself and your progress, every step of it. We all have a starting point. No matter where you are in your life, you have made progress. Every mistake, every victory, and every confusing moment can lead you forth and can be something to celebrate.
Conversations about Death
Video
1 hour, 22 minutes
6/29/2022
It seems death cafes are everywhere these days. But how changed are we by the conversations we're now having? Not everyone is open to talking about death. It may well be that someone in your life is nearing the end of their days and their refusal to talk about it may be confusing and disheartening. How do you get them to speak when they don't want to? In this session, we will explore different approaches to navigating this tricky terrain.
The Circle Of Care, The Circle Of Trust, And Nonviolence
The Circle Of Care, The Circle Of Trust, And Nonviolence
The Circle Of Care, The Circle Of Trust, And Nonviolence
Article
4 - 6 minutes
02/26/2022
Part of nonviolence is having an infinite circle of care that includes simultaneous care of ourselves, others and groups: no one is beyond the pale. Plus, it's about having an infinite trust in the possibility that we can reach someone's heart even if we don't now know how -- since regardless of what this other person has done, they have the same needs. Without this kind of trust, nonviolence would crumble as way to create change.
Time Travel Empathy
Video
7 minutes
6/24/2022
One of the tools that help heal trauma is Time Travel Empathy. This process contributes to settling the energy field around a tangled trauma knot, which enables the trauma to become an integrated memory and part of life. Listen in as Sarah explains.
Repair: Responding To A Lack Of Empathy
Practice Exercise
4 -6 minutes
05/25/2022
When someone stimulates your pain, you may want them to express care and empathy for your experience. If they're unwilling, you may resent it. You may forget the power of many strategies to meet a need, and you lose your agency. This can lead to reactive habits in you -- such as pleading, demanding, or attacking. Here are reasons you may not be getting an apology or empathy, and what options you have in moving forward.
What is Leadership?
Audio
51 minutes
6/21/2022
What specifically is leadership? And why do so many people step back from it? Listen in as Miki shares her experience and thoughts around changing the paradigm of leadership, as well as the role – and challenges – of using NVC when working for social change.