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Rita Herzog shares how to stay true to your needs while extending empathy in family relationships.

Miki speaks to peace activists about connecting with the life vision in those who stimulate pain.

Miki Kashtan shows how translating judgments into needs transforms family conflict and connection.

Inbal Kashtan reflects on poverty and how empathy can help build a peaceful, inclusive world.

Kathleen Macferran guides you to bring NVC into daily life and break old patterns.

Explore what blocks us from speaking truth and how honesty builds trust and growth.

Exploring how blame hides our inner voice and fuels pain through self-judgment and stories.

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

Listen to this audio to learn the value of focusing on needs in an NVC model, either for the first time or as a refresher course. Living from a needs-consciousness creates abundance, clarity and choice. Using three examples from participants, Mary guides the group towards identifying and then connecting with the needs of both parties involved in each situation. It becomes clear very quickly that people choose different ways to support their needs; and many times they have the same needs in a given situation. When we understand this, we are able to create peace in our relationships and negotiations.

“Everything someone does or says is an attempt to meet a need,” says CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie. This simple statement is a foundational understanding in Nonviolent Communication; once you gain skills at living in a “needs-consciousness” you will literally change your life and your perception of the world, and improve all of your relationships.