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The NVCpractice.com Podcast
by Jack Hart
This is an archive of NVC-influenced conversations.
Episodes
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Episode 44: NVC & EFT
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
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
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
Michael and I discuss the temptation to seek ego in relationship.
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Episode 40: Toward Sensation & Faith with Stephen Michael Tumolo
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
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)
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
Brian Tohana introduces me to Authentic Relating Games.
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Episode 36: NVC & BDSM
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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…
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Episode 27: The Marriage Mediator (Part 2/2)
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)
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.")
Sasha helps me re-see and re-imagine a conversation in which I wasn't all that I could be.
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Episode 24: Institutional & Institutionalizing NVC
M. J. Harding has co-written a musical in which characters vested with institutional power come to use Nonviolent Communication for purposes of surveillance and state-sponsored violence. It's called Removal Men, and some clips are available here.
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Episode 23: "Thank you for your service."
A retired Army Ranger has had second thoughts about the meaning of his career. Now he struggles to know how to respond, especially in casual situations, to being acknowledged for it.
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Episode 22: NVC as alternative to default settings
Ryan and I discuss some recent progress he's made employing the NVC framework.
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Episode 21: "It shouldn't be so frickin hard!" (Part 2 of 2)
I give Mariska empathy concerning her love life, and invite or challenge her to go beyond her "natural" skills.
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Episode 20: The Spicey Hamburg Incident (Part 1 of 2)
Mariska and I delve into an incident, trivial in itself, that represents a pattern of disconnection between herself and her boyfriend.
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Episode 19: Role Play & Unpacking Role Play (Part 2 of 2)
The episode begins with a response to feedback that suggests I make the podcast and its marketing a little more polished, and then I go on to say a bit about how I understand what one actually does to "practice" NVC. The role play with Marilyn represents the two-step form of learning empathy that…
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Episode 18: Parents vs. Facebook (Part 1 of 2)
Marilyn teaches NVC, and has three moms in her class who are at a loss as to how to communicate with their adolescents. Marilyn and I role play a conflict as a way to generate resources that might help her in her future role plays with the distraught moms.
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Episode 17: Visionary Parenting and its Discontents
Jodie has a lot of passion for putting into practice some definite ideas about child rearing. But this has led to some friction with her husband, and she finds herself stuck when wanting to offer him empathy. We try to role play our way to some resources. Apologies for some echo in the audio.
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Episode 16: A Bad Dad Redo
In response to a divorce, Kate's piqued father cut her out of his life. Thirty years later, when she finally had a chance to talk to him on his deathbed, he had throat cancer and an unreconciled heart. We seek some daughterly peace for her through role play.
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Episode 15: Empathy and The Closet and Beyond
Kristin Collier talks about her book Housewife: Home-Remaking in a Transgender Marriage. I reviewed it here, and her website is here.
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Episode 14: A Listening Dojo
Craig and I have a discussion prompted by a Facebook Post he made that I found myself out of sympathy with. I contacted him in order to listen, but was stimulated and talked a lot.
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Episode 13: Working with Jealousy (Part 2 of 2), A Follow-Up Celebration
In Episode 11, Katie and I role-played an upcoming conversation in which she hoped to come to a shared reality about some pain her friend's actions had occasioned. In this episode, she shares how that conversation worked out. Also, in passing, the NVC Dance Floors get a mention. More information...
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Episode 13: Working with Jealousy (Part 2 of 2), A Follow-Up Celebration
In Episode 11, Katie and I role-played an upcoming conversation in which she hoped to come to a shared reality about some pain her friend's actions had occasioned. In this episode, she shares how that conversation worked out.
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Episode 12: Deepening into Needs with Alejandro
We take a detour when some new information gets added to a work situation role play.
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Episode 11: Working with Jealousy (Part 1 of 2)
Katie and I roleplay a difficult conversation she anticipates having with a friend.
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Episode 10: NVC in Parts with Alejandro
The training wheel sentence--"When [observation] I feel X because I'm needing Y, would you be willing to [request]"--is a tool for NVC training, but in the real world it's often best used in parts. Here Alejandro and I discuss this delicate point.
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Episode 9: Hoovering with Mariska (Part 2 of 2)
Despite excellent strategies, relationship communication can still be hard. Here we linger on a minor, but painful, incident--trying to imagine a giraffe response.
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Episode 8: Meta Conversation with Mariska (Part 1 of 2)
We talk about talking NVC, before getting down to cases which will be featured in future podcasts.
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Episode 7: Chuck Powers' Life Art
This episode begins with me getting some feedback on my own NVC practice, and then I work with a friend in anticipation of a high stakes conversation he'll be having the next day.
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Episode 6: Mike Wilson & Lindajoy: Celebration, Mourning, Connection
Mike and I talk about how a co-housing arrangement turned into a deep bond.
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Episode 5: "Family Camp" With Filmmaker Hanna Utkin
We discuss her experience with NVC, and her film on the Vashon Island Family Camp. View Film Vashon Island Family Camp Information on Family Camps in Wisconsin, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Colorado and California Comment on this episode
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Episode 4: Sharing NVC
Sam Brightbart and I discuss the first stage of his effort to share NVC. Comment
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Episode 3: Father & Son Mediation (Part 2 of 2)
Conclusion of a conversation between a father and son in which we discuss dependence, support, energy, and optimism. Comment
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Episode 2: Father & Son Mediation (Part 1 of 2)
I work with a father and son to improve their connection around issues of dependence, support, grief, and optimism. Comment
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Episode 1: Rank & File NVC
In this episode I get some help musing about the Podcast's focus. Comment
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