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NVC Monthly NewsletterJanuary 2025 |
What You'll Find in This Month's Newsletter:Events - Upcoming International Intensive Trainings (IIT)
- A Journey from the Heart: A Year Long Path to Peaceful Living
- Every
4th Wednesday, January 22nd-December 17th, 2025
- First Generation NVCers' Events:
- In-Person Retreat March 9th-14th, 2025
Articles - Nonviolent Communication and Extremism
Fundraisers - Fundraiser for The Relationship Foundation: Essential Communication Skills for Underserved Schools
Book Specials 50% OFF both
full Retail and eBooks Price - Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- Comunicación no Violenta: Un
Lenguaje de vida
- NVC Toolkit for Facilitators
- Peaceful Living
Distance Learning Opportunities - NVC Academy
- The Center for Nonviolent Communication Trainings
Book Excerpts - NEW CHAPTERS!! - Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook - Section 3
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Chapter 3
- Comunicación no Violenta: Un Lenguaje de vida - Chapter 3
- NVC Toolkit for Facilitators - Section 3
- Peaceful Living - Section 3
Handouts - Downloads
- Recommended Links
Peaceful Daily Reflection/Meditation - Setting Goals for the New Year
Poem - WAKE UP! Life is too short to...
Resources - Becoming a CNVC certified
trainer
- Guidelines for Sharing NVC for Individuals who are not Certified Trainers
NVC Resources - NVC TIP SERIES (Free daily and weekly tips)
- FREE RESOURCES
- NVC FACEBOOK GROUPS
- NEW ** NVC LINKEDIN GROUPS **
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CNVC - International Intensive Trainings Description You'll be immersed in a community of people learning, practicing, and applying Nonviolent Communication from the moment you sign up. Each of CNVC's IITs are hosted in different countries and languages in effort to expand their reach for all who wish to experience the depth of NVC and connect with a growing community of passionate learners and practitioners. Upcoming IITs - The Netherlands - Starts January 3rd
- India - Starts February 6th
- United States (CA) - Starts February 28th
Learn More
A Journey from the Heart: A Year Long Path to Peaceful Living Description 4th Wednesday of each month, January 22-December 17, 2025 11:00am to 12:30pm Pacific (California) Time Looking to deepen your NVC practice and live it fully in your daily life? Join Mary Mackenzie, author of Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing, and Compassion, in 2025 for a
transformative year-long program designed to help you move from "learning" to "being." The Peaceful Living book is on our monthly book specials offered at 50% off ! This unique course offers monthly classes, small group support, daily meditations, journaling, and an online forum to connect with like-minded Peaceful Living enthusiasts. With ongoing insights and reflections from Mary, you'll have the tools and
community to embrace NVC in all its forms—through life's joys and challenges. Dive into a year of connection, presence, and personal growth! Learn More
First Generation NVCers’ Events In-Person Retreat: An Even Deeper Dive into Knowing and Living the Roots of NVC as Received Directly from Marshall Rosenberg, March 9-14, 2025 Description: As First Generation NVC trainers, we have heard a desire from NVC practitioners and those steeped in NVC to understand what was stirred in Marshall in the creation and sharing of NVC teachings with the world and to connect with those who know the history and have lived NVC for over 30 years. This retreat is an opportunity to delve into
areas of NVC that may not have received as much attention as others in recent years, and to do so as we received it from Marshall. The retreat, which will take place March 9-14, 2025 at Mary & Joseph Retreat Center at Rancho Palos Verdes (close to LAX airport in California), is intended to be an advanced-level exploration of NVC and is open to Certified Trainers and Candidates registered with CNVC. Others steeped in NVC may be considered on a case-by-case
basis. Find out more about the First Generation NVCers and the event on their website: FirstGenNVCers To register, Click Here For general questions about the event, please contact the First Gens at silgiraffe@aol.com and copy firstgennvcers@fastmail.com. If you have registration
questions, please contact Elke Haggerty at elke@process-works.ca.
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Nonviolent Communication and Extremism |
Using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to Address the Roots and Impacts of ExtremismBy Alan Rafael Seid, CNVC Certified Trainer Introduction The purpose of this article is to clarify Nonviolent Communication and demonstrate its potential in
addressing extremism in society today. If you are already versed in NVC you will note that extremism is not something concrete in the way that an observation usually is in NVC. Extremism is trickier to define than that. Similar to racism, privilege, or climate change (to name only a few examples) — extremism could be thought of as a meta-phenomenon in the sense that it is made of up many, many observations. For extra clarity,
this is not about labeling a person or a group of people. This article is not about calling someone an extremist. This article is about extremism. As we move forward, let’s first define extremism, then clarify NVC, and then dive deeper after that! What is extremism and how is it relevant in today’s world? Extremism refers to holding
beliefs, attitudes — or exhibiting behaviors — that deviate significantly from what is considered acceptable by societal norms, often in ways that promote intolerance, hostility, or violence. Read More
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When we use NVC to express appreciation, it is purely to celebrate, not to get something in return. Our sole intention is to celebrate the way our lives have been enriched by others. Marshall Rosenberg |
The Relationship Foundation
Help Underserved Schools with Nonviolent Communication The Relationship Foundation is a small nonprofit with a big vision, making an impact in Social and Emotional Learning by introducing Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Nonviolent Communication is a practice of expressing one’s needs
and feelings without blame or judgment and listening empathically. Teachers have commented that using NVC in the classroom has improved student behavior and academics. Another teacher said, “in my 20 years of teaching, I have never seen anything like this.” Ten underserved schools have requested the curriculum and training sessions
for their students and teachers. Your donation will help provide much-needed training sessions and curricula for underserved schools.
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Its extremely important that we build into our lives opportunities to exchange sincere gratitude, that we have opportunities to express it to others and to receive it. Marshall Rosenberg |
WAKE UP! Life is too short to... Always play it safe. Be “right” instead of happy. Carry a grudge. Do “just enough” to get by. Engage your mouth when angry. Forget what really matters. Give up on your dreams. Have
a chip on your shoulder. Impose limitations on yourself. Just work for the money. Keep walking on eggshells. Leave words unspoken. Make mountains out of
molehills. Not try, for fear of failure. Obey all the rules. Pretend to be someone you’re not. Quit when the going gets tough. Risk nothing, do
nothing. Sweat the small stuff. Try to please everybody. Use blame, shame or guilt. Value things more than people. Wait for the other shoe to drop. Xperience life as a spectator. Yearn for the “good old days”. Zip right through it. © Meiji Stewart
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The more gratitude is a part of our life . . . the more fuel we have to be a giraffe in a jackal-speaking world. Marshall Rosenberg |
Nonviolent Communication Free Handouts and Links
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Recommended Links:
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So we need to be, above all, very clear that we not mix up gratitude as a need. We don’t need gratitude. If we think we need gratitude, then we’re suckers to live our life trying to get approval from others. Gratitude is very important, but not as a need. It’s necessary as a confirmation that our need was met. Marshall Rosenberg |
Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook - Chapter 3
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Chapter 3
Comunicacion no Violenta - Chapter 3
NVC Toolkit for Facilitators - Section 3
Peaceful Living - Section 3 |
So, the first thing that I would suggest, then, in the giving of gratitude to other people, is to be very careful that you never give gratitude as a reward. Never give gratitude to build up someone’s confidence in themself. In other words, don’t use it as a manipulation to create something in the other person. Marshall Rosenberg |
Certified Trainers & Sharing NVC
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.
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The intent is very important in giving gratitude. It must be only to celebrate life. To celebrate a need of ours getting met. Absolutely no intent to reward the other person, just coming from the heart. Marshall Rosenberg |
The NVC Academy offers hundreds of affordable online personal growth courses and resources to learn Nonviolent Communication from home.
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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.
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It’s very hard for people who don’t use NVC to hear gratitude expressed from the heart. Why? Because they’ve been living in a world that hears gratitude as a judgment. They wonder whether they deserved it or they wonder whether it’s being used as a reward, because very often “thank you” is used as a reward, which is a sure way to spoil the beauty of gratitude. Marshall Rosenberg |
Stay Connected to the Values of Compassion With the Free 365 Daily Peaceful Living Meditations.
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world. —The Dalai Lama
Setting Goals for the New Year What do you want to focus on this year? What are your goals, hopes, and dreams? It’s important to make your goals concrete and specific. Don’t just say that you want to be happier; consider how you would like your life to be different. What if your goal is
to support world peace by living your own life more peacefully? Consider the specific ways you will do this, such as learning Nonviolent Communication, taking a course on anger management, working a twelve-step program, or seeing a therapist. If your goal is to contribute to world peace, your actions can be very specific and concrete. Avoid focusing on what you don’t want, such as conflict at work. Rather, focus on what you want, such as harmony at work. When your goals are concrete and
positively worded, you can begin to manifest them. This simple process can have a profound impact on your success. Take a few minutes today to write down your goals for the year, knowing that the goal-setting process is the first step toward manifesting your dreams. |
- NVC TIP SERIES (Free daily and weekly tips)
- FREE RESOURCES
- NVC FACEBOOK PAGES
We hope you find value in our monthly newsletters. We would love to receive ANY feedback or suggestions you may want to share. Please let others know about our newsletter to help spread nonviolent communication, love, hope, humor and compassion, if you are willing :)
We want a more compassionate, equitable, peaceful, safe and healthy world.
Please be safe!
Warmly,
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