Courageous Conversations

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations,  you'll hear stories where we share awareness around the unconscious blabber we share with ourselves and hear from others in our daily liv...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and Cici share their experiences when it comes to thoughts.  Sometimes we choose to listen to our thoughts instead of our hearts and...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and Cici talk about the Oscar moment between Chris Rock, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith in relation to choices.  We also share s...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and Cici share stories of when their need for self-responsibility was met or unmet. We also share stories from Marshall Rosenberg's book,...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. During this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about what Karen calls the tyranny of inclusion.  When we are using the word inclusion, is there judgment, blame or demand ene...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. During this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about listening, levels of capacity, and power in our world. You'll hear stories about what brought this conversation to light for...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. During this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about our integration.  What is integration to us? How can integration support growth?  Karen also wrote a blog to suppor...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. During this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about our experiences when we enter what Cici calls a storytime. Storytimes are influenced by our thoughts and are an important par...

For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. During this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about our experiences as organizers. As organizers of events, there are moments that challenge our edge and maybe have us feeling s...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and Cici discuss social media and what is accountability in the language of nonviolence. For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. If after listening to this episode, you find you...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we invite Cin Victoria, a worldwide educator, to share her experiences as a teacher that chooses to integrate NVC into her classroom. She shares strategies, stories, and more about what it's like to foster a school community focused on acknowledging feelings, needs, choice, and more. For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natura...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and Cici explore interdependence as a need and what it means to be interdependent with all beings within NVC.  For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. If after listening to...

On this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we are joined by Jamil Popatia. Jamil is a Certified Trainer and Facilitator in Nonviolent Communication based in Vancouver, British Columbia.  He is the founder of Dignified Dialogue where he works with clients and participants to engage in courageous conversations with themselves and others in pursuit of meaning, connection and compassion....

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about faith. Having faith in the process even when we don't know what is going to come next. You'll also hear us talk about presence and how embodiment plays a role in connection with those around us. For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, list...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we explore space as a need in its physical form, in the form of time, and also in spaciousness. You'll hear personal examples from Cici and Karen about times when we needed space and how we did or didn't make the request for that much-needed space. For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when w...

New week, new podcast! We're back with another episode of Courageous Conversations this week. Karen brings up a quote Marshall Rosenberg once said that was, NVCers aren't perfect, they are just getting progressively less stupid. You'll hear us share our experiences where we have noticed we have gotten progressively less stupid and get an inside look at our process as we go about our day-to-day in...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we were excited to have a listener question from one of our Patreon members. The question was do you say, "I'm sorry," in Nonviolent Communication?  We explore apologies, I'm sorry and beneficial regret within NVC, and share stories about what connection looks like for us as we transition back to in-person get-togethers.  For those of y...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about the three different stages of how we relate to each other as Marshall Rosenberg identified them in his book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. We talk about some of our experiences and celebrations as we progress from emotional slavery to the obnoxious stage to emotional liberation. For those of you trained in NVC, please...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we talk about the 4 D's of disconnection and dig deeper into deserve-type thinking. You'll hear a real-life example from a conversation C had with a friend and we also touch on the care and awareness that is needed when bringing up the needs of justice and accountability. We have touched briefly on the justice systems in place in the US towards t...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and C talk about self-care, sticking to the agreements we make with ourselves and the differentiation between power and force. This week's episode ends with a role-play we're hoping is supportive to be a part of when keeping your courageous conversations in mind.  For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural languag...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen and C explore what can happen when we hear criticism and how some days we may need to eat a slice of humble pie in those scenarios. For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we are in conversation together. So, listen on with an open mind, a furry heart, and curious ears, or not. If af...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Cici was curious about "getting it done" and how that works in the world of NVC. How can we stay in connection while moving into strategy? Karen and C explore what that could look like and what has worked for them in their past experiences.  For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural language and street giraffe when we...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, we chose to slow down and talk about NVC and the importance of aiming for connection. You'll hear some excerpts from Marshall Rosenberg's book, stories from us both about moments where we noticed the importance of slowing down and remembering that we aim for connection.  For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural langua...

In this week's episode of Courageous Conversations, Karen shares a story about how one evaluation changed the course of her life. (Kidding, but it did change the course of the day.) Throughout the episode, we discuss the NVC Mandala and how evaluations have the ability to influence the choices we choose to make day to day.  For those of you trained in NVC, please note that we use natural lang...

In this week's episode, we are discussing a topic that was requested of us.  That topic is natural language or what we would call street giraffe.  Now that we've figured out some details about feelings and needs, how do we communicate that in a way that is more natural to us and the people around us? Turn up the volume and listen, or not. You're at choice and we hope you find this helpfu...