• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • NVC
    • What is NVC?
    • Who is NVC for?
  • Training/Events
    • Online
    • Practice
    • Events Calender
    • NZ Trainers
  • Resources
    • Downloadable Resources (Free)
    • Resources for purchase
  • About
    • Meet the NZ Trainers
    • Aotearoa NZ Trust
    • NVC Founder
    • CNVC
  • Contact

NVC Aotearoa NZ

Celebrating the Spirit of NVC in Action

You are here: Home / NVC / Who is NVC for? / Adolescence

Adolescence

Adolescence can be a tough time for everyone involved. Not only are hormones taking over the body, exam stress creeps in at school along with raised achievement expectations, parents want their sweet children back, and neighbours want parties to be quieter! This increase in external pressures heightens the need for empathy – a key element of Nonviolent Communication. NVC will help youth navigate their inner dialogue, giving them a way to express themselves and get their needs met more effectively, without needing to push people away; harming themselves or others while they do it.
Research has shown that empathy is the key to unlocking the cycle of family violence, criminal behaviour and addictive dependency among youth. Increasingly experts are realising the power of empathy (as opposed to sympathy) in helping keep youth on track, and out of the justice system. An article recently published in the Dominion Post said that if more people learned the skill of empathy, prisons would ultimately close.
Parents and caregivers can experience a mixture of frustration and despair as conflict in the home becomes a part of daily life. A tug of war can develop around the question of how to keep young people safe while supporting them to take healthy risks. NVC offers hope.  It is a simple 4 step model that can be implemented immediately to support harmony.  It is highly effective in transforming relationships and can help avoid unnecessary conflicts.
Nonviolent Communication has been effective worldwide in helping bridge the adolescent – adult gap. Whether living with youth or working with them, NVC offers a simple map that will support connection via the skill of empathy.
“Get behind the behaviour and you will see their beautiful needs” – Dr Marshall Rosenberg

Primary Sidebar

Sign up for our newsletter

Free, monthly, upcoming events update
* indicates required
Grouping 6325

    View previous campaigns.

    "Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way."

    Marshall B. Rosenberg

    Upcoming Events

    Jun 12
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    7 Mondays Online- Communicate 4 Connection – Jim & Valerie

    Jun 25
    10:00 am - 4:30 pm

    WELLINGTON Connect to Your Body Wisdom – Anna Groves + Katie Lane

    Jun 26
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm

    NVC Spirituality Online w/Filipa Hope: Advanced 16wk program

    Jun 29
    29 June @ 9:30 am - 1 July @ 5:00 pm

    Collaborative Mediation Skills – Wellington

    Jul 1
    1 July @ 9:00 am - 2 July @ 4:00 pm

    Free for Early Childhood Services HB: 2 days w/Filipa Hope

    Jul 1
    1 July @ 9:00 am - 2 July @ 5:00 pm

    AUCKLAND – Transforming Relationships with care – Weekend workshop with Deb & Wayne

    Jul 8
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Kapiti Coast – Irma Jager – Respectful Parenting Workshop

    Jul 8
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

    NELSON Real Empathy – 1 day practical lab w/Anna Groves

    Jul 9
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Kapiti Coast – Irma Jager – Eat by Choice, Not by Habit

    Jul 13
    13 July @ 7:00 pm - 31 August @ 9:00 pm

    Words Matter: NVC intro online (AnnaB)

    View Calendar

    Footer

    • Events
    • Trainers
    • Resources
    • Contact

    Donate to the NVCANZ Trust

    © 2023 NVC Aotearoa New Zealand