The nine recording sessions of the Nonviolent Communication Training Course follow the structural plan Mr. Rosenberg used in the daily plan of his nine-day international intensive trainings (IITs). Marshall recorded these well-prepared sessions specifically to share NVC with the world at large. The recording quality is excellent.
Session One: Origins of Nonviolent Communication
- The purpose of NVC
- Understanding the skills necessary to live compassionately
- An overview of the NVC process
- Developing a language of compassion
Session Two: Applying NVC within Ourselves
- The “Four Friends” that alert us to when we are not acting from a place of compassion: anger, depression, guilt, and shame
- Transforming our language of violence
- The pitfalls of self-judgment
- Exercises to practice self-empathy
Session Three: A Radically Different Kind of Honesty
- Differentiating observations from evaluations
- Learning how to identify our needs
- The practice of making clear requests
Session Four: Empathically Connecting with Others
- Developing the skill to differentiate between receiving information empathically versus non-empathically
- Behaviors that prevent us from being present to another person’s needs and feelings
- Understanding what to do when others judge your actions
Session Five: Meeting Our Needs in Intimate Relationships
- Love as a need, not just a feeling
- Differentiating requests from demands
- Learning to say no
- Communicating about sexuality
Session Six: Experiencing and Exercising Authority
- Understanding different authority structures
- Respect for authority versus fear of authority
- Standing up to authority
- Saying no to authority exercise
- Issues addressing the authority relationship involving children
Session Seven: Healing, Mediation, and Reconciliation
- Helping people heal with NVC
- How empathy supports healing
- Healing and reconciliation exercises
- Learning how to have empathy for people who are angry
- An exercise designed to help open communication channels
Session Eight: How NVC Supports Social Change
- Transforming dominating structures
- Making requests in powerful ways
- The protective use of force
Session Nine: Living Compassionately with Celebration and Gratitude
- Differentiating gratitude from praise and compliments
- Celebrating the power we have to enrich life
- Learning to whole-heartedly receive gratitude