The NVCpractice.com Podcast

The NVCpractice.com Podcast

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is the name given by the late Marshall Rosenberg to a theory and practice of empathy.

Episodes

Episode 44: NVC & EFT

May 28, 2018 • 58 mins
Long time practitioner Mukti tells her NVC story, as well as explains how Emotionally Focused Therapy has added another dimension to her couples counseling work. She offers courses at EveryDayLove.com.au that integrate  insights from both modes.
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Episode 43: NVC & Conscience

May 21, 2018 • 50 mins
Maria Santelli, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War, and giver of the TedTalk "Witnessing the Power of Conscience," speaks of her work with conscientious objectors.
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Episode 42: NVC & Being Seen

August 21, 2017 • 117 mins
Mariska and I explore the linked values of being seen and mattering in a romantic relationship. How does"What do I want?" weigh against, "What can I accept?"
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Episode 41: Beyond the Guru Vibe

August 6, 2017 • 35 mins
Michael and I discuss the temptation to seek ego in relationship.
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Episode 40: Toward Sensation & Faith with Stephen Michael Tumolo

July 31, 2017 • 62 mins
Stephen Michael Tumolo is Executive Director of Heart to Heart: Comienzos East. His organization teaches sensation-awareness, mindfulness, and NVC in jails, prisons, and half-way houses. An article portraying the work he and his volunteer staff do can be found here.
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Episode 39: Mentee-Mentor Dialogue

July 24, 2017 • 41 mins
Erin and I chew over the Max Rivers interview on NLP (Episode 35), and ponder what is involved in progressing in NVC.  
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Episode 38: Josh Stein & Circling (2/x)

July 17, 2017 • 41 mins
Josh Stein runs The School of Circling Wizardry. This is our round-about conversation about what circling is, and how he got involved. This is not a conversation about NVC--except in so far as all relational practices are one.  
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Episode 37: NVC & Authentic Relating Games

July 9, 2017 • 59 mins
Brian Tohana introduces me to Authentic Relating Games.
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Episode 36: NVC & BDSM

July 4, 2017 • 42 mins
The distinction between a request and a demand, and the energy attendant on each, is nowhere more consequential than in our sex lives. Jefe and I have a preliminary conversation about how this is at stake in BDSM play.  
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Episode 35: NVC & NLP

June 18, 2017 • 65 mins
The Marriage Mediator, Max Rivers, explains how NLP training informs his needs-based approach to marriage mediation.
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Episode 34: Investigating Striking Out

June 12, 2017 • 8 mins
In this short episode I reflect on where I wanted NVCpractice.com to go, and where it seems to me to be going. You might call this episode self-involved, but I'd request to have it heard as an exercise in self-connection.
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Episode 33: Adam Vogal & Bystander Intervention

June 5, 2017 • 16 mins
Adam Vogal is the President of the Oregon Peace Institute. What is to be done when one is out in public, and suddenly on the cusp of a violent situation? Adam conducts training on how to make sound choices.  
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Episode 32: Onboarding a Peaceful Parenting Partner

May 30, 2017 • 48 mins
Chelsea's NVC challenge is that her partner doesn't share her ideas about how to show up when their young sons are in conflict. It's a fascinating conflict about conflict, I think, and we use role play to begin to find a way to conversation.
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Episode 31: Rawness

May 22, 2017 • 22 mins
Erin and I converse about how to stay in relation to emotions that don't readily admit themselves to names. I share that this is something that comes up for me in doing eldercare.  
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Episode 30: Andy Drish & Circling (1/X)

May 15, 2017 • 33 mins
What is circling? And how might it be related to the practice of NVC? This is the first in a series of episodes in which I plan to explore that question.
  • The conversation between Andy and Decker Cunov that I mention as having been so taken by can be found here.
 
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Episode 29: Mom Empathy & Accepting Help

May 8, 2017 • 47 mins
I request some help from listeners in re-doing my response to a Mom who's all in on the power-with model, and we role play to explore her disinclination to let others meet her needs.  
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Episode 28: John Lash: From Rules to Relationship

April 30, 2017 • 36 mins
John Lash of The Georgia Conflict Center learned NVC in prison, and brings a deeply informed and felt perspective to its place alongside self inquiry and the principles and practices of restorative justice. To hear John in conversation with another interlocutor, find Alum Perry's interview with him here.  
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Episode 27: The Marriage Mediator (Part 2/2)

April 24, 2017 • 39 mins
Max Rivers suggests that a primary potential of an intimate relationship is revealing and meeting the specific needs one gave up on getting met in one's family of origin. Filmmaker Hanna Utkin (The NVC Family Camp Documentary) conducts the interview.    
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Episode 26: The Marriage Mediator (Part 1/2)

April 17, 2017 • 37 mins
Hanna Utkin (whose Family Camp Documentary is here) interviews Max Rivers (whose marriage mediation portal is here). Part One is Max's back story, as well as the framing of the notion of "Needs."  
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Episode 25: NVC & Deliberate Practice (revisiting, "Thank you for your service.")

April 9, 2017 • 62 mins
Sasha helps me re-see and re-imagine a conversation in which I wasn't all that I could be.  
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