Learn to connect to self and others using NVC (and the cards if you have them).

By Joel Young Categories: Wellbeing
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About Course

Increase your emotional intelligence with this guide to the NVC Dance Floor and feelings and needs.


Highly recommend. It was really clear and easy to understand. Simple and clear with some light-hearted banter in there also. Heaps of practical examples that can be applied to your day-to-day life. You will be better off for taking this course. Money well spent!


I was inspired by this topic after attending an NVC (Non-Violent Communication) couples weekend. I learned how quickly you can learn to connect in a meaningful way with your fellow humans, but also how subtly our language includes violence and judgement.

In this course, you will learn about the empathy cards resource as well as the subtleties that make Nonviolent Communication such a powerful way of connecting. This has been a profound, yet simple, way to improve emotional intelligence.

I am a counsellor, husband, and father and this course is absolutely relevant to all these aspects of my life.

After taking this course you will have the skills to better connect with yourself, and also the self-awareness to be able to express yourself without muddying your message with the violence and judgment that are such a natural part of our language.

You will learn how to use the ‘feeling and needs’ empathy cards and how they fit into the Nonviolent Communication Dance Floor.

You will also Integrate the NVC philosophy with your personal style of helping by watching applied lectures and demonstrations.

Course Outline:

Section 1: The Cards and Empathy

Section 2: The Dance Floor

Section 3: Applications

Section 4: Gratitude

I actually think that the best way to learn anything is through experience – and for this topic – I think that’s especially true. So, take the time to practice the skills being taught, and even better, get along to a local NVC practice group or course and experience the magic for yourself.

Bonus Materials:

  • You will get a copy of the NVC Dance floor to download and print.
  • You will get a copy of common faux feelings and/or feelings that blame.
  • You will get a sample of the Tigers printables.
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What Will You Learn?

  • How to use the empathy cards (feelings/needs cards)
  • Understand the mechanics of empathy
  • Be able to differentiate between feelings, needs, thoughts, and demands.
  • Listen to people at a deeper level
  • Understand yourself at a deeper level
  • See the violence hidden in everyday judgements
  • Understand some of the underpinning principles of Nonviolent Communication.

Course Content

Introducing empathy and the cards.
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  • Introducing empathy
    00:41
  • What did you come here for?
  • What is NVC and what are these cards all about?
    03:48
  • What is empathy?
    01:31

The NVC Dance Floor and its philosophical underpinnings

Using NVC and cards

Finishing up