Art of NVC

online video course

The Complete NVC Video Course

A comprehensive course designed to guide you step by step through the process of becoming skilled at Nonviolent Communication — the fundamental concepts, nuances, and common pitfalls that occur when using NVC in the real world.

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Module 1 — Foundations of NVC

What Nonviolent Communication is, where it came from, and the four components that make it work.

Module 2 — Observations Without Evaluations

Learning to describe what happened without judgment — the foundation every other skill rests on.

  • 🔒The camera test12 min
  • 🔒Always, never, and other traps15 min

Module 3 — Feelings & Needs

Telling true feelings from faux feelings, and tracing every feeling back to a universal need.

  • 🔒Faux feelings: blame in disguise16 min
  • 🔒The universal needs14 min

Module 4 — Requests vs. Demands

Making clear, doable requests — and staying connected even when the answer is no.

  • 🔒Specific, doable, refusable13 min
  • 🔒Hearing “no” without losing connection17 min

Module 5 — Empathy & Emergency Empathy

Listening for feelings and needs in others — including in the heat of conflict.

  • 🔒The twelve empathy blockers19 min
  • 🔒Emergency Empathy21 min