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NVC Resources with Peggy Smith


The Journey To Living Through Needs, Compassionately And Assertively

Article • 5-8 minutes • 
Article
5-8 minutes
Awareness of how we're holding our own and others' needs is important to our development. In learning to value needs, we often go through three stages: passive, aggressive/obnoxious, and assertive/mutual. As we learn and grow, we may relate to the following differently: Whose feelings and needs are important, who is responsible for what, how our choices impact others, and consideration for...

Moving Beyond Needs as Met or Unmet

Article • 5 - 8 minutes • 
Article
5 - 8 minutes
Sometimes when we regard needs as something that could be met or unmet by another person or by a situation we unconsciously hold the belief that our needs should be met. Or we end up holding blame or implying wrongdoing. People are more likely to resist a request made from this stance. Instead, here are practices to increasingly losen any remaining attachment or demand energy -- and open our...

Needs Cards

Learning Tool • 1 - 2 minutes • 
Learning Tool
1 - 2 minutes
Print-and-cut these 71 needs cards for one-on-one, partner or group activities, to help support the pratice of empathy. Includes nine blank cards for you to customize.

NVC Flow

Learning Tool • 1 - 2 minutes • 
Learning Tool
1 - 2 minutes
This single-page handout illustrates the steps to translating habitual judgements and actions into OFNR.