Web-Sites
NVC Australia: http://www.nvcaustralia.com/
CNVC – The worldwide body for NVC – http://www.cnvc.org
Great videos & multi-media resources
- Children, Trauma, Empathy, and Neuroscience. Sarah Peyton: https://vimeo.com/319446588
- Communicate2Connect YouTube Channel, including some great NVC and Living Compassion videos collected under ‘Playlists’
- The Power of Touch
- Online Multi-media NVC Library at NVC Academy
- Parenting the Triune Brain – not directly NVC (and not just about parenting), but very short and worth watching
Overviews of NVC
- Excerpts from Marshall’s seminal text, NVC: A Language of Life
- A “prezi” presentation of NVC by NVC Trainer Liv Monroe
- And another, by Greg Brooks-English
Feelings and Needs lists
- Miki Kashtan’s resources page, including lists of needs and feelings
- Julie Lawrence’s printable PDF of the NVC process, plus feelings and needs, which you can fold up and put in your wallet. (Instructions for folding into a booklet may be found there).
Ongoing Learning
There are many amazing NVC newsletters and weekly tips series available, which will enhance your ongoing practice and learning with NVC. Here are just a few.
- Sign up for weekly tips at http://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/general_tips/nvctips_subscribe.htm
- Also samples from Mary Mackenzie’s wonderful daily meditations, http://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/plmeditations/index.htm
- Subscribe to free weekly Connection Gems from LaShelle Lowe-Charde at Wise Heart, and check out her other free resources to download. Especially recommended is her self-empathy worksheet.
There are also paid ones. Thom Bond runs a series every year (starting in July), where you get one email a week. It’s only $52 and is FABULOUS. Find out more here: http://www.compassioncourse.org/
Parenting and NVC
- Here’s the book from which Pine Community School (Brisbane’s first school to use NVC!) printed its feelings and needs cards for kids – The No-Fault Classroom eBook
- Great list of Parenting Resources at NVCWorld, including links to Giraffe Juice books, parenting books, and some great articles
- Great article about using NVC in parenting: The Heart of Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Action (PDF file)
Further Training
Cate Crombie was one of the first NVC trainers in Australia, and is also the CNVC Assessor for Certification Candidates for the entire southern hemisphere. She runs regular 2 day “Foundation Training” workshops at the Relaxation Centre, which are highly recommended, as well as intermediate and advanced level trainings. You can find a calendar of Cate’s trainings here.
The NVC Australia website lists NVC trainings available all around Australia, and lists our Australian-based NVC trainers, as well as trainers visiting from overseas.
NVC Academy offers a wide variety of online and teleclass courses in NVC, as well as offering a very large online multi-media library of NVC resources.
Want to go Deeper with your NVC Learning and Practice?
There are many wonderful trainers and trainings out there. For going deep into the heart of your NVC practice and learning to embody compassion, authenticity and nonviolence we highly recommend:
- Robert Gonzales at the Centre for Living Compassion
- Miki Kashtan deepening courses and blogs such as Fearless Heart
- The ZENVC approach of Jesse Wiens and Catherine Cadden, including their 3 month Zen Ongo
Some Resources for Compassionate Social Change
Roman Krznaric
Empathic Civilisation