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  1. When the pressure is on whether that's rushing out the door for the school run or getting them to bed on time, it's easy to leave all our best practices to one side. Luckily Nonviolent Communication gives us some useful tools to add to our metaphorical parenting tool belt and today we're sharing 6 tips to help bring out the compassionate parent in you.

  2. How can Nonviolent Communication practices support us when we're feeling depressed? Taking a look at some characteristics of depression and how they're linked to unmet needs, we offer some steps to take that help you reconnect with life and others.

  3. Navigating Polarizing Conversations

    Navigating Polarizing Conversations

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Video · 53 minutes · 12/20/2022

    This video with Jim and Jori Manske explores how to navigate polarizing conversations.

  4. In this Life Hack, we take a closer look at 'values-based' feedback and give you 7 practical tips that will help you provide useful feedback.

  5. Facilitating Deeper Understanding

    Facilitating Deeper Understanding

    Mary Mackenzie

    Video · 1 min 43 sec · 09/25/2025

    Mary Mackenzie shares practical facilitation techniques to guide participants toward deeper understanding without correction. Through thoughtful pauses and reflective questions, she demonstrates how to help individuals connect with feelings and needs in a meaningful way.
  6. Deepen Your NVC with Ken Wilber's Integral Framework

    Deepen Your NVC with Ken Wilber's Integral Framework

    6 Session Course

    Alan Rafael Seid

    Multi-session Course · 7 hours, 30 minutes · 3/23/2017

    Explore how NVC and Ken Wilber’s Integral Framework align, overlap, and complement each other.

  7. Introduction to NVC Mediation

    Introduction to NVC Mediation

    John Kinyon

    Audio · 1 hour, 13 minutes · 7/28/2010

    This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater.

  8. Sometimes there are moments when empathy has no effect at all on one another.  Why?  One reason could be that our brains might be less receptive because of unseen forces that affect our nervous system and relationship with others.

  9. Blend science, emotional intelligence across species, and NVC to foster belonging and wholeness.

  10. How to Navigate Holiday Conversations with Family

    How to Navigate Holiday Conversations with Family

    Oren Jay Sofer

    Practice Exercises · 6 - 9 minutes · 1/15/2024

    While we can’t control other’s behavior, we can choose how we show up. With forethought and care, we can approach interactions with more clarity, love, and skill. Read on for practices that include: Choose wise attention, ask better questions, practice deep listening, structure the conversation, know your limits, speak your truth, share your personal stories, be present and recall permanence.

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