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There's a danger in using empathy exchange to perpetually recirculate and exchange pain (often by telling and re-telling the same old stories), rather than using it as a catalyst for transformation. It can create and further pain in whatever form: anger, destructiveness, hatred, grief, emotional drama, and violence. It can also reinforce dualistic evaluations of "met" vs "unmet" needs. And it can slow down productivity.

Jeff shows us how to emply NVC to supercharge the possibility of transformation between two people in a mediation process.

Join Jeff Brown for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege white people.

Many of us check our full selves at the door when entering our workplace. Would you like to learn how to apply NVC principles at work instead? In this session, Jeff details how you can step into greater authenticity at work!

Jeff Brown leads a discussion on privilege, racism awareness, and empathy through NVC practice.

Interested in bringing NVC consciousness to your workplace, but want to use a natural and conversational way of speaking? Listen in as Jeff describes three specific skills you can apply immediately: #1: How to express your understanding of a co-worker’s needs; #2: How to apply the three dimensions of needs in a business setting; and #3: How to make a Symbiotic Request that acknowledges holding multiple needs.

Explore how to apply NVC in workplaces like construction, even when openness seems limited.

Jeff Brown shows how connection requests invite authentic feedback and stronger workplace bonds.

Jeff Brown shows how to bring NVC to your workplace by starting with inner awareness.

Please join us as we take a deeper look into this mysterious word, “community.” In this Trainer Dialogue recording, we explore the living process of creating, uniting and nurturing NVC communities so that they transcend yet sustain and empower their members.

In this enlightening Trainer Conversation, three veteran CNVC Certified Trainers discuss whether NVC can be learned without first learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as the trainers grapple with the question, eventually covering a wide-range of topics including the spirituality and true essence of NVC.

Join CNVC Certified Trainers Jeff Brown, Jean Morrison, Karl Steyaert, Kathleen Macferran, Mary Mackenzie and Sylvia Haskvitz in a lively Q&A session focusing on naturalizing NVC into our daily interactions.

Fear in dealing with a neighbor's 'wastebasket talk.' Only leaving or interrupting stops the flow.

Ask the Trainer: Get ideas to help your girlfriend accept you aren't responsible for her feelings.

Ask the Trainer: Get guidance on working with enemy images and exercises that bring relief.

Exploring how to keep NVC natural and authentic without sounding mechanical or formal.