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

Experience NVC tools for mediating conflict—whether you're involved or supporting others.

Apply NVC mediation skills in child-related conflicts, for parents, teachers, and others.

Explore NVC’s core elements alongside universal spiritual principles.

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.

Discover deeper self-acceptance, unlocking emotional healing and spiritual presence.

Honor the wisdom in your BIG emotions as you are guided through anger, fear, and shame with NVC.

Trainer Tip: Anger can be an opportunity to hear the "Please" behind the words and create a path to resolve conflicts compassionately.

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?

Trainer Tip: Most of us have been conditioned to withhold the expression of our feelings to some degree. Mary offers a tip to de-stigmatize our feelings and relax into our humanness.