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  1. Some Ideas for Using the Feelings & Needs Cards

    Some Ideas for Using the Feelings & Needs Cards

    Peggy Smith

    Practice Exercises · 4 - 6 minutes · 11/26/2019

    This guide features three activities that use feelings and needs cards: two verions of "Feelings and Needs Poker" and one for "Self-Empathy". Great for practicing alone, with a partner, or in a group.

  2. Holding the Group's Needs

    Holding the Group's Needs

    Miki Kashtan

    Video · 2 minutes · 07/24/2018

    CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan shares a tip on holding a group's needs while empathizing with a single person in the group.

  3. In our fast-paced, busy lives it is tempting to practice NVC mostly with the left hemisphere of the brain, thinking through the steps quickly without slowing down to connect more deeply with feelings and needs.  Don't miss an opportunity to integrate the hemispheres of the brain and the valuable information from the neural networks in the heart and gut.

  4. Connecting With Your Husband

    Connecting With Your Husband

    Godfrey Spencer

    Audio · 7 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: My question is about wanting to empathize more with my husband. Sometimes we connect very deeply, other times he slips back into "jackal talk..."

  5. Peace Starts At Home

    Peace Starts At Home

    6 Session Course

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 6 hours, 13 minutes · 11/4/2017

    Strengthen empathy, goodwill, and authenticity at home, meeting life's challenges with grace.

  6. Prepare for Love

    Prepare for Love

    12 Session Course

    Eric Bowers

    Multi-session Course · 9 hours, 7 minutes · 4/14/2017

    Transform relationship pain and build thriving connections with NVC, Attachment Theory and IPNB.

  7. Communicating with Children

    Communicating with Children

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 10/8/2020

    Trainer tip: Empathy can offer profound learning opportunities to children, expand their feelings and needs vocabulary, and teach them the positive results of valuing everyone’s needs. Read on for a story that illustrates this.

  8. Naturalizing NVC Language

    Naturalizing NVC Language

    7 Session Course

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 8 - 10 hours · 11/15/2022

    Learn to speak NVC using your own voice and increase ease and flow in all your personal and professional conversations. This 7-session telecourse recording with renowned trainer Miki Kashtan is designed to help you integrate NVC into all aspects of your life by gaining fluency in your practice of NVC and by embodying the principles regardless of the words you use. This course is based on intensive practice and coaching with real-life examples from participants’ lives.

  9. Being Me and Loving You

    Being Me and Loving You

    4 Session Course

    Kelly Bryson

    Multi-session Course · 6 - 8 hours · 03/25/2025

    Create intimacy with transparency, empathy, and trust—Kelly blends humor, music, and exercises.

  10. Do you ever think you have the perfect answer for someone who is struggling? Eric offers a tip on how to approach situations like this.

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