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  1. Setting Boundaries with Attraction

    Setting Boundaries with Attraction

    Elia Paz

    Articles · 3 - 5 minutes · 8/27/2020

    Attraction to others is neither good nor bad. Although it's pleasurable it doesn’t necessarily help with wise discernment. When it arises, it's up to you to engage in wise discernment about how you manage it. This guide provides practices and points of focus to engage your own attraction in a way that holds more choice about what will meet needs for yourself and others, and what role attraction plays.

  2. Needs Analysis

    Needs Analysis

    An Activity to Uncover Your Strategies

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 10/6/2019

    Trainer Tip: Find your deepest need. Then notice when you do things, or have done things, that keep you from meeting your most important need. And then take conscious action that is in alignment with the need you want to meet.

  3. Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment

    Clarity, Compassion and Empowerment

    6 Session Course

    Robert Gonzales

    Multi-session Course · 7 - 10 hours · 4/6/2019

    Clarity leads to compassion and empowerment with Robert's approach to NVC and transformation.

  4. Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness practice.

  5. Embracing Nonviolence

    Embracing Nonviolence

    4 Session Course

    Miki Kashtan

    Multi-session Course · 4 - 6 hours · 7/15/2022

    Embrace nonviolence with courage and compassion as you learn to stand for truth in everyday life.

  6. Using Images in Your Empathy Guessing

    Using Images in Your Empathy Guessing

    Dian Killian

    Video · 4 minutes · 10/10/2024

    Join Dian Killian and discover the power of imagery and metaphor in deepening your empathy practice. This segment from her 6 session course explores how visualizing sensations, emotions, and needs through metaphorical language can enhance the connection during empathy guessing, particularly in somatic-based approaches.
  7. NVC can be seen as a restorative practice that reconnects us with life, trust, and the experience of mattering.
  8. True inner freedom arises from self-connection. Without self-connection, we're mostly acting from habits, and those habits do not necessarily attend to our own needs. Here's a practice you can explore in your daily life to deepen your relationship with yourself, and experience true choice and inner freedom.

  9. The Needs Underneath a Need for Fairness

    The Needs Underneath a Need for Fairness

    Miki Kashtan

    Trainer Tips · 2 - 3 minutes · 7/28/2010

    Ask the Trainer: "Fairness" isn't on the needs list. What needs might be underneath it?

  10. The Needs of the Many

    The Needs of the Many

    LoraKim Joyner, DVM

    Audio · 11 minutes · 9/18/2013

    LoraKim Joyner addresses the sense of overwhelm that can accompany holding the needs of the many. Practicing self-empathy is a pathway to living in the tension of mutually holding my needs and the needs of others.

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