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Empathy Bundle
Embracing the Body,
Tao of Empathy &
The Amazing Power of Empathy
Price: $273
Added 7/15/2025
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Deepen your empathy practice with this special 3-course bundle
Empathy is more than a skill—it’s a way of being that can transform your relationships, your inner world, and how you show up in the world.
This bundle brings together three powerful courses that explore empathy from the inside out: through the body, through presence, and through the profound power of connection.
Whether you're new to NVC or looking to deepen your practice, these self-paced courses offer practical tools, embodied insight, and timeless wisdom to help you live and relate with more compassion and clarity.
Embracing the Body with Dian Killian
A Six-Week Program on Somatic-Self-Empathy for Greater Empowerment, Insight, Freedom, and Choice
True self-empathy goes beyond thoughts—it lives in the body. In this course, Dian Killian introduces Somatic Self-Empathy (SEE), a powerful process for connecting with your body’s wisdom and healing long-held emotional patterns.
You’ll learn to:
- Draw on your senses to more deeply practice self-empathy and get past blocks
- Learn your body’s “language” and how to listen deeply to it
- Create transformational shifts in your life and with others
- Expand your NVC toolbox with emergency self-empathy tips
By listening closely with deep empathy to your body and your younger parts – who often have been waiting for decades to be heard – you will free up energy, gain new insight, and enjoy more freedom and choice.
Tao of Empathy with John Kinyon
The Practical Art of Creating Empathic Connection through Natural Speaking and Empathy
Empathy is a practice—one that supports deep connection, clarity, and well-being.
Like meditation, yoga, and exercise, a regular practice of empathic speaking and listening contributes to health, well-being and optimal functioning.
In this course, John Kinyon guides you in speaking and listening from presence, even in the face of conflict or reactivity.
You’ll learn about:
- Speaking and listening from presence, and connecting with needs with ease
- Understanding your own and others' experience, separate from agreeing or disagreeing
- How to quickly reconnect with yourself and return to empathic presence when triggered
- How to make these practices a habitual part of your daily life!
The Amazing Power of Empathy with Mary Mackenzie
Have you ever had the experience of being truly heard and understood by another person? Or felt the astounding, breathtaking connection that arises when someone sheds all preconceived notions, gives you their full presence, and really sees you?
We call this The Amazing Power of Empathy – and the power does not stop there.
In this course, Mary Mackenzie teaches a simple method for developing empathy skills to help you experience deeper compassion, stronger connections, and more mutual understanding in your interactions.
In 4 powerful sessions, Mary teaches how to:
- Deepen your listening skills and develop an empathetic presence
- Discover paths to move beyond anger, blame, and judgment
- Connect with the Divine essence in other people
- See important conversations through to peaceful resolution
The full presence of empathy is a remarkable gift to give another person and to yourself.
These courses will help you to enjoy more heartfelt connections, discover greater depths of compassion, and support your relationships to grow and THRIVE.
Meet Your Trainer: Dian Killian, John Kinyon, Mary Mackenzie
Dian Killian
CNVC Certified Trainer from New York, USA
Dian Killian, PhD, is a Certified Trainer with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication, a certified life coach (a graduate of the Coaching for Transformation program) and author of two books, Urban Empathy: True Life Adventures of Compassion on the Streets of NY, and Connecting across Differences: How to Connect with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (now in English, German, and Chinese). Founder and former director of the Center for Collaborative Communication, she now offers coaching and training via her company, Work Collaboratively, to diverse organizations from small and large NGOs to multinational and Fortune 100 companies.
John Kinyon
CNVC Certified Trainer from California, USA
John Kinyon provides communication training, coaching, and facilitation to the public and organizations. He is co-creator of the Mediate Your Life training program, which is a year-long public training offered in different parts of the U.S. and internationally. The training gives people the ability to connect across conflicting differences and divides, and work together in highly effective ways to reach new possibilities and solutions. John's work is based in the international work of Compassionate Communication (Nonviolent Communication, NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, who John worked closely with for over a decade. John has been a certified trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2000, and a leader in the world-wide NVC community. John is co-author of the books: From Conflict to Connection: Transforming Difficult Conversations into Peaceful Resolutions, and Choosing Peace: New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict.
Mary Mackenzie
CNVC Certified Trainer from California, USA
Mary Mackenzie, M.A., is an author, trained mediator, and CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She holds a master's degree in human relations from Northern Arizona University and is the CEO of the NVC Academy. Mary teaches Nonviolent Communication and other spiritually-based programs to individuals, couples, families, organizations, and spiritual communities through a wide variety of workshops and retreats. Her book Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion (translated to German, Korean, simplified Chinese and Dutch) offers inspiring practical methods for creating peace in our everyday lives. She is also the co-author of the children’s picture book Giraffe and Jackal Are Friends (Again!), written with Lisa Robinson and illustrated by Nicole Michels. As a pioneer of online NVC training, Mary runs her company in harmony with what she teaches. She and NVC Academy co-founder, Mark Schultz, paved the way to NVC online training in 2006 and have been instrumental in alleviating the financial and geographical barriers to learning NVC skills.
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