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Meeting Our Need for Honesty
Trainer Tips • 1 - 2 minutes • 7/29/2010
Trainer Tip: Mary offers a perspective on how to know if our need for honesty is being met.
Connect Before Correct
Trainer Tips • 2-3 minutes • 7/29/2010
Ask the Trainer: "Recently, I was sitting in my weekly practice group trying to connect to my reasons for wanting to give empathy to a particular person. She was telling us about some painful feeling she was having, but was not connecting to her needs."
Using Conflict to Reflect on Fulfilling My Needs
Trainer Tips • 1 - 2 minutes • 10/26/2010
Trainer Tip: When I have conflict in my life with someone, especially recurring conflict, I like to find out what the conflict is showing me about myself.
The human needs that we all share are the foundation of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process because it is in connecting to needs that we find inner freedom, empowerment and compassion.
It Takes a Community to Raise a Relationship
Articles • 5 - 8 minutes • 7/29/2010
Using his own life experience, Eric explores why we need support from others, what support might look like, and what blocks us from asking for support for our relationships.
Celebrating Mourning
Articles • 3 - 5 minutes • 7/29/2010
In a recent vacation in a Mexican village, I was surprised to find myself in the midst of a community in mourning. Two days before I came, a 21-year-old girl had died in a car accident. Everyone in the town knew her and was openly affected by her death.
Transforming Painful Patterns
Practice Exercises • 7 pages • 7/29/2010
Why is it so difficult to change our patterns even when we want to, even when we experience shame or despair about them? Arnina Kashtan offers some of the common pitfalls and concrete steps to overcome them in the future.
Witnessing Humanity
Audio • 40 minutes • 7/29/2010
CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan talks about what she calls "witnessing humanity," touching on the gift of presence, empathy vs. identification and staying present in the face of intensity.
Interdependence in the Face of Cultural Imperatives
Audio • 1 hour, 2 minutes • 7/29/2010
Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as explores interdependence, autonomy, valuing self and others, and power-sharing in your relationships. Free yourself to honor your longing for community, belonging, and love.
Living Without Enemies
Audio • 1 hour, 18 minutes • 7/29/2010
Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores enemy images to increase your capacity to embrace life more fully. Free yourself from the “us-them” paradigm and experience true compassion for the people whose actions most trouble you.
Choice in the Face of Demands
Audio • 1 hour, 8 minutes • 7/29/2010
No one likes demands. Do you want to have access to choice when requests or demands come your way? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she provides tools to free yourself from the submit/rebel dynamic.
Overcoming Unworthiness to Express Vulnerable Honesty
Audio • 9 minutes • 7/29/2010
Does unworthiness keep you from expressing vulnerably and honestly? Afraid of being "found out?" Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant to discern stories from needs, recognize the tension between self-acceptance and personal development and sit with the discomfort of self-acceptance.
What Do I Do When I Completely Forget My NVC Consciousness?
Audio • 35 minutes • 7/29/2010
We sometimes forget our intention to stay fully present and awake, it happens to all of us. Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this forgetting, how we hold it and what we can do about it.
Expressing Vulnerable Honesty While Fearful
Audio • 30 minutes • 7/29/2010
What do you do when you are thinking that it's not "emotionally safe" to speak honestly? Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she explores this topic with a workshop participant.
When Someone's Anger Stimulates Fear for My Physical Safety
Audio • 7 minutes • 7/29/2010
CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan tells us to look to our inner dialogue and the other's needs when we're feeling fear of physical violence that's been stimlated by someone's anger.
About Guilt and How Apologizing Falls Short
Audio • 8 minutes • 7/29/2010
Join CNVC Certified Trainer Arnina Kashtan as she examines the nature of guilt and how apologizing often fails to connect us to our needs.
The Compass - Taking Responsibility in the Face of Guilt and Judgment
Audio • 1 hour, 3 minutes • 7/29/2010
The Compass – Arnina Kashtan's in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself.
Extreme Gratitude
Trainer Tips • 1 - 2 minutes • 7/29/2010
Trainer Tip: When I am in resistance to what is happening in my life, when I'm having a very difficult time enjoying or just being with what is occurring, I like to offer up my gratitude.
Feelings and Needs Cards
Learning Tools • N/A • 7/29/2010
These downloadable cards are graciously offered to help busy parents who want more time and less struggle.
Self-Empathy "Wrap" Process
Audio • 46 minutes • 7/29/2010
In this inspiring audio, Mary takes to a more profound level the traditional NVC self-empathy process of identifying judgments, feelings and needs, by adding a "wrapping" component.
