October 2025 Newsletter - Nonviolent Communication and Mental Wellness

Published: Mon, 10/06/25

Updated: Mon, 10/06/25

NVC Monthly Newsletter

October 2025

Our website covers over 50 different topics from an NVC perspective-all written by a senior certified trainer. Our latest topic was written on NVC and Mental Wellness. Please read some to learn more.

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

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.

Please stay safe and healthy!

Thank you :)

PuddleDancer Press

What You'll Find in This Month's Newsletter:

Events

Upcoming International Intensive Trainings (IIT)
NVC Intro for Educators: Resilient Classroom - 4 Mondays starting Oct 13th

Articles

Nonviolent Communication and Mental Wellness

Book Specials

50% OFF both full Retail and eBooks Price

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- Learn more about the book
- Buy the book on special
Comunicación no Violenta
- Learn more about the book
- Buy the book on special
Being Me, Loving You
- Learn more about the book
- Buy the book on special
Getting Past the Pain Between Us
- Learn more about the book
- Buy the book on special

Distance Learning Opportunities

NVC Academy
The Center for Nonviolent Communication Trainings

Book Excerpts

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Chapter 3
Comunicación no Violenta - Chapter 1
Being Me, Loving You - Chapter 1
Getting Past the Pain Between Us - Chapter 1

Handouts

Downloads
Recommended Links

Peaceful Daily Reflection/Meditation

This is Your Life

Poem

Dogs...

In the News

Notable Birthdays for Oct 6th | National Day Calendar
P & C Webinar: Nonviolent Communication | Red Carnation Hotels
10 Books Every Mentor, Coach or Teacher Should Keep On Their Shelf | Times Now

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 ** NEW

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Events

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

Online - Starts October 17th
Viet Nam - Starts October 24th
United States(CT) - Starts November 7th
India - Starts January 31st, 2026
United States(CA) - Starts February 8th, 2026
Spain - Starts March 27th, 2026

Learn More

NVC Intro for Educators

Resilient Classrooms: Teaching with NVC and Trauma Awareness - Starting October 13th

Learn More

Articles

Nonviolent Communication and Mental Wellness: Practical Tools for a Healthy Inner Life

by Alan Rafael Seid, CNVC Certified Trainer

Introduction: Nonviolent Communication and its Benefits for Mental Wellness

Mental wellness underpins your ability to do anything effectively in your day.

Nonviolent Communication or NVC — historically rooted in clinical psychology, but developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD for everyday people — is a simple and powerful modality with extraordinary benefits for mental wellness.

In this article I give you a very brief overview of NVC and I define mental wellness.

Then I cover some of the ways in which mental wellness is impacted negatively followed by how NVC addresses each of them....

For more than 60 topics, please visit www.nonviolentcommunication.com

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION IN its purity is the most powerful, quickest way I’ve found to get people to go from life-alienated ways of thinking where they want to hurt each other, to enjoying giving to each other.

Marshall Rosenberg

Book Specials

GIVING OF OURSELVES means an honest expression of what is alive in us in this moment. . . . And the other way we give of ourselves is through how we receive another person’s message. To receive it empathetically, connecting with what’s alive in them, making no judgment. Just to hear what is alive in the other person and what they would like. So Nonviolent Communication is just a manifestation of what I understand love to be.

Marshall Rosenberg

Humor

Poem

Find more poems and toons at shoot.for.the.moon_cartoons

THIS PROCESS IS all about compassionate giving and receiving—what I think we need to know how to do real well, if we want to enjoy being around human beings. We need to know how to connect in a way in

which compassionate giving and receiving can take place.

Marshall Rosenberg

Handouts

Nonviolent Communication Free Handouts and Links

Downloads:

NVC Summary of Basic Concepts
Key Facts About NVC
The 4-Part NVC Process
Feelings and Needs We All Have
Differentiating Between Feelings And Faux Feelings from John Kinyon © John Kinyon, NVC trainer and author of Mediate Your Life
First Gen NVCers - This is a link to the website and resources of First Generation NVCers, a group of individuals certified by Marshall before 1990. First Generation NVCers want to transmit NVC as they received it from Marshall. Their website shares their experiences with Marshall and learnings from him, plus stories about how CNVC & NVC developed.
Giraffes Around the World CNVC Playlist with 200+ videos

Recommended Links:

WHAT IS NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION?

GENUINE COOPERATION IS inspired when participants trust that their own needs and values will be respectfully addressed. TheNonviolent Communication process is based on respectful practices that foster genuine cooperation.

Marshall Rosenberg

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION IS really an integration of a certain spirituality with concrete tools for manifesting this spirituality in our daily lives, our relationships, and our political activities.

Marshall Rosenberg

Book Excerpts

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Chapter 3

Read the excerpt here

Comunicación no Violenta - Chapter 1

Read the excerpt here

Being Me, Loving You - Chapter 1

Read the excerpt here

Getting Past the Pain Between Us - Chapter 1

Read the excerpt here

IN OUR TRAINING we want people not only to come out with awareness of how Nonviolent Communication can be used to transform our inner world, we want people to see how it can be used to create the world outside that we want to live in.

Marshall Rosenberg

Resources

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.

Introduction to the Certification Process

Guidelines for Sharing NVC for Individuals who are not Certified Trainers

News

NVC IS FOUNDED on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. It contains nothing new; all that has been integrated into NVC has been

known for centuries. The intent is to remind us about what we already know—about how we humans were meant to relate to one another—and to assist us in living in a way that concretely manifests this knowledge. NVC guides us in reframing how we express ourselves and hear others. Instead of habitual, automatic reactions, our words become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, and wanting. We are led to express ourselves with honesty and clarity, while simultaneously paying others a respectful and empathic attention. In any exchange, we come to hear our own deeper needs and those of others. NVC trains us to observe carefully, and to be able to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting us. We learn to identify and clearly articulate what we are concretely wanting in any given situation. The form is simple, yet powerfully transformative.

Marshall Rosenberg

Learning

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/learn/intensive-trainings

In our training we want people not only tocome out with awareness of how Nonviolent Communication can be used to transform our inner world,we want people to see how it can be used to create the world

outside that we want to live in.

Marshall Rosenberg

Peaceful Daily Reflection

Stay Connected to the Values of Compassion With the Free 365 Daily Peaceful Living Meditations.

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.

—Joan Baez

This is your life

Have you heard the saying, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”? When I first heard it, I didn’t understand what it meant. Today I know that I choose my life, every bit of it. When we start to live as the autonomous beings we are, we begin to experience life through new lenses. Our “have to’s” become “choose to’s.” We no longer worry about being victimized because we take responsibility for our choices, even those we regret later. We begin to create love and peace on a daily basis because that’s what we want. This is your day. Right now. It may not be perfect but it is your life. How do you choose to live it? Carpe diem.

Today, be aware of the choices you have, and make decisions that will help you attain your dreams.

Learn About the Book Here

NVC Additional Resources

NVC TIP SERIES (Free daily and weekly tips)
FREE RESOURCES
NVC FACEBOOK PAGES

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