June 2022 Nonviolent Communication Newsletter

Published: Thu, 06/02/22

  June 2022
     
NVC Monthly Newsletter
     

We hope you find value in the resources we are providing today! We invite you to share with friends, family, colleagues, and others, if you believe they might also find value in this.

Our most recently updated topic is written on De-escalation.

Our website covers over 35 different topics from an NVC perspective-all written by a senior certified trainer. Please read some to learn more.

If you are new to Nonviolent Communication please visit our page on the basics of Nonviolent Communication.

Please stay safe and healthy!

     

Thank you : )
PuddleDancer Press

     
     
What You'll Find in This Month's Newsletter:
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Upcoming Events
  • LA IIT International Intensive Training June 10 - 19, 2022
  • The Compassion Course Online With Thom Bond June 22nd, 2022 through June 14, 2023
  • Tanzania IIT International Intensive Training June 24 - July 3, 2022
  • Finland IIT International Intensive Training July 1 - July 10, 2022
Articles
Book Specials
Compassion in Action
  • Compassion in Action - Offer Empathy
Distance Learning Opportunities
  • NVC Academy
  • The Center for Nonviolent Communication Trainings
Book Excerpts
  • Special Sneak Peak Chapter from The Heart of NVC releasing Spring of 2023 - Chapter 6 "Observation and Observation Mixed With Evaluation"
  • Collaborating in the Workplace - Chapter 1
  • The Healing Power of Empathy - 3 Meaningful Stories
  • Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids - Chapter 1
Handouts
  • Conflict Resolution Play - creative outlet for the youth
  • Downloads
  • Recommended Links
Humor
  • ANVC (Almost Nonviolent Communication) Cartoons
  • PuddleDancer Press Cartoon
NVC in the News
  • The Power of Nonviolent Communication| Psychology Today
  • How to embrace radical honesty | Happiful
  • Sticky Situations: Resolving Toxic Conflict | Psychology Today
  • Gov. Kate Brown puts muscle into Oregon clemency program | Statesman Journal
  • Everyday words you should avoid when talking to children | Luxembourg Times
Peaceful Daily Reflection/Meditation
  • Living our Values
Resources
  • Becoming a CNVC certified trainer
  • Guidelines for Sharing NVC for Individuals who are not Certified Trainers
  • List of 90+ NVC Facebook Groups
Poem
  • Children Are...
NVC Resources
  1. NVC TIP SERIES (Free daily and weekly tips)
  2. FREE RESOURCES
  3. NVC FACEBOOK GROUPS
  4. NEW ** NVC LINKEDIN GROUPS ** NEW
     
 
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Events
     
LA IIT International Intensive Training June 10 - 19, 2022
     
This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.

  • Speak from the heart
  • Practice deep, non-judgmental listening
  • Build self-empowerment from the inside out
     

Event Information

     
The Compassion Course Online With Thom Bond June 22nd, 2022 through June 14, 2023
     
Registration is Open
"For anyone who wants to have more compassion, understanding and harmony in their lives and in our world”

  • Experience more harmony and understanding with important people in your life
  • Have less painful, shorter conflicts
  • Have more awareness of your needs, wants and desires
  • Have your needs expressed and understood
  • Increase congruence between your values and actions
  • Translate judgments into dialogues & requests
  • Increase harmony and understanding among others
  • Stay more centered, open and effective in conflicts

Event Information

     
     
Tanzania IIT International Intensive Training June 24 - July 3, 2022
     
The International Intensive Training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) was created by its founder, Marshall B. Rosenberg, and a team of trainers with an intention to bring people from around the world to experience the power of a living community that has awareness of its interdependence and its potential to live in dynamic coexistence.

The Tanzania International Intensive Training is a unique opportunity to experience 9 days of living, learning, and practicing Nonviolent Communication principles and skills with a vibrant community of engaged NVC participants from Africa, Asia, and from all over the world. Situated in the breathtaking vicinity of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, you will create new friendships, discover a rich and colorful culture, and enjoy the generous spirit of the people of Tanzania.

An international team of trainers will accompany you on this empowered journey with care, skill, and encouragement. Each day’s rhythm will weave community gatherings with core NVC topics, special topics of interest (parenting, schools, restorative practices etc.), cultivating a spirit of curiosity, clarity, playfulness, and heart. The local Tanzania NVC team will support you in making your stay lively and comfortable.

Seminar Language: English.
     

Event Information

     
     
Finland IIT International Intensive Training July 1 - July 10, 2022
     
This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.

Our team of Certified Trainers will share both the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique applications. We expect a group of approximately 50 to 60 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.
     

Event Information

     
     

“Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck.
Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don’t.
Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do.
Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don’t.
Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful.
And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.”
Marshall Rosenberg

     
     
Articles
Nonviolent Communication and De-escalation
     
     

What is de-escalation and how do you do it with NVC?

De-escalation is the process of defusing tensions, and lowering the emotional charge, so that people can begin to find solutions.

How do you de-escalate with NVC?

The short answer is found in the phrase connection before solution. And though that may seem simple, let’s unpack it for clarity...

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THE ART OF LIVING Ten Tips For Compassionate Communication by Paul Shippee
     

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), sometimes called Compassionate Communication, is a way of being and a way of speaking that connects you more deeply to yourself and to others. It is a daily practice of increasing awareness that has both spiritual and practical benefits. It is a personal and a relational practice that sheds light on wrong-doing and reduces life-alienating communication. NVC has the potential to create harmony and mutual understanding, to regard all conflict as opportunity, and to make life wonderful in the present moment. Here are ten tips for how you can practice the art of living with NVC...

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Memorial Day 2022 By Paul Ruez, M.Ed.
     

Today let’s Honor: Sacrifice – Teamwork – Selflessness – Tenacity – Love - Etc.

... these are ‘choices’ made by the men and women and their loved ones who served and serve. Focus on this, not the horrors of war.

To me, Memorial Day is a day to honor the warriors and these choices they courageously made. We too, can choose similar courageous steps on our behavior compass to deploy throughout the year in facing conflicts – personal, career, national and global...

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How to Practice Nonviolent Communication - Wikihow
     

Nonviolent Communication includes a simple method for clear, empathic communication, consisting of four areas of focus:

  • Observations
  • Feelings
  • Needs
  • Requests
NVC aims to find a way for all present to get what really matters to them without the use of guilt, humiliation, shame, blame, coercion, or threats. It is useful for resolving conflicts, connecting with others, and living in a way that is conscious, present, and attuned to the genuine, living needs of yourself and others...

Read More 

     
     

Collaborating in the Workplace
The Healing Power of Empathy
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids

     
Compassion in Action - Offer Empathy
     
     
     
Handouts
Nonviolent Communication Free Handouts and Links
     

Conflict Resolution Made Easy
Conflict Resolution Play - creative outlet for the youth

Downloads:
Key Facts About NVC
The 4-Part NVC Process
Feelings and Needs We All Have
Differentiating Between Feelings And Faux Feelings from John Kinyon

Recommended Links:
Pathways to Connect – NVC Handouts
Cascadia Workshops – Intro to NVC Handout
Street Giraffe – Handy Handouts
NVC Next Gen – NVC Informational Handouts
Radical Compassion – NVC Handouts
Nonviolent Communication Handouts
Marshall Rosenberg NVC Handouts
Marshall Rosenberg Videos on Youtube

     

Credit @motivate_vision

     
     
Book Excerpts
Heart of NVC - Chapter 6
     

During my certification journey, my beloved assessor, Penny Wassman, strongly encouraged me to publish my writings on the key differentiations. Once certified, I continued to explore the key distinctions with fellow CNVC trainers and assessors, as well as with my NVC students and CNVC trainer candidates. After a joyful reunion in Italy with my very first NVC empathy buddy and close friend, Kristin Collier, and after savoring her memoir Housewife: Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage , I invited Kristin to join me in this project. Together we wrote "The Heart of Nonviolent Communication: 25 Keys to Shift From Separation to Connection" that will be published by PDP April 1st 2023.

As the community of certified trainers continues to deeply engage in lively conversations, such as the understanding of observations, to harness the collective wisdom, we are grateful to PDP for the willingness to offer this chapter now in hopes that our exploration might support the inquiry. We imagine that some of you may at times disagree with our understanding of NVC. We welcome you to engage in a process of discernment with curiosity, to find your own truth. In our experience, a willingness to explore beyond our present understanding allows for learning, choice, and clarity about what matters most to us.

Stephanie Bachmann Mattei, PhD
https://www.stephaniebachmannmattei.com

Kristin Collier
https://www.collierconnections.com

     
     

Read the excerpt here

     
Collaborating in the Workplace - Chapter 1
     
     

Read the excerpt here
Buy the book on special here - 50% off

     
The Healing Power of Empathy - 3 Meaningful Stories
     
     

Read the excerpt here
Buy the book on special here - 50% off

Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids - Chapter 1
     
     

Read the excerpt here
Buy the book on special here - 50% off

     

“There never was a good war or a bad peace”

Benjamin Franklin

     
     
Poem
     
     
     
Humor
ANVC (Almost Nonviolent Communication) Cartoons
     
     

Cartoons by Sven Hartenstein

     

Conceived by Meiji Stewart. Illustrated by David Blaisdell.

     
     
Resources
Becoming a CNVC Certified Trainer

CNVC is committed to the vision of a critical mass of the world's population using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to resolve differences peacefully. A strong community of qualified trainers will play an important role in the realization of this goal.

Introduction to the Certification Process
Guidelines for Sharing NVC for Individuals who are not Certified Trainers

     
NVC Facebook Groups

List of 90+ NVC Facebook Groups

     
     

“We look forward to a time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

William Goldstone

     
     
Distance Learning Opportunities
NVC Academy
The NVC Academy offers hundreds of affordable online personal growth courses and resources to learn Nonviolent Communication from home.
     
     

Visit the NVC Academy

     
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization that supports the learning and sharing of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.
     
     

Visit CNVC.org/Trainings

     
     
News
NVC in the News!
     
     

“He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”

Confucius

     
     
Peaceful Living - Considering the Needs of Other People
Stay Connected to the Values of Compassion With the Free 365 Daily Peaceful Living Meditations.
     
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
—Kate Halverson
     

Considering the Needs of Other People
If you only focus on what you want, you are only halfway there. One of the basic principles of Nonviolent Communi- cation is valuing everyone’s needs equally. Remember that needs are the underlying reasons why we do things. You might go to the store to pick up food to feed your family. Your need is to feed your family and your strategy is to go to the store. If you didn’t have enough food to feed everyone in your family tonight, would you like to eat your fill and let others go hungry? Or would you like to find a way to meet everyone’s need for food...

Read More
Sign Up for the 365 Daily Meditations
Learn about the book here

     
     
NVC - Additional Resources
  1. NVC TIP SERIES (Free daily and weekly tips)
  2. FREE RESOURCES
  3. NVC FACEBOOK PAGES

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