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Understand what drives children’s behavior and why their actions may feel annoying to parents.

Discover how replacing "niceness" with honesty, passion, and compassion restores aliveness.

Exploring how stories and unmet needs each influence the cause of our feelings in NVC.

A 1999 discussion with youth on understanding and working with anger.

Explore NVC's role in transforming power dynamics and bridging social divides.

Explore gratitude with Jori & Jim Manske to stay present and flourish in everyday life.

The human brain is a conservative organ that comprises different systems with varying degrees of conscious awareness, which evolved in three basic stages of human history (the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain.) In my understanding, we could say, the brain has strong needs for understanding, order, predictability and meaning. In fact, one of its key functions is to process experiences, and predict what the world is like, in order to maximize survival.  CNVC Certified Trainer Stephanie Bachmann Mattei explores the biological basis of our inner jackal voices.

Have you ever gotten a fishing line all tangled up? You got so frustrated you just started yanking on the different loops of line, which of course made the knots and tangles even tighter and more difficult to untangle. Wouldn’t it be great if you could notice the minute you were starting to tangle things up in a discussion with your loved one?

Learn to channel anger into mutual caring and peace through conflict mediation and brain science.

Listen to Roxy Manning explore the barriers to speaking authentically as powerful voices for change, and practice these needed conversations about the ongoing violence in the streets of America.