Resources & Books

Other Resources, Websites & Apps

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Resources

• Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). Founder Marshall Rosenberg's foundation book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
• Puddledancer Press - NVC books and learning materials
• NVC Academy - online NVC library and courses
• Sarah Peyton- NVC, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma work. Book by Sarah, Your Resonant Self
• Robert Gonzales - NVC and spirituality
• Zenvc and Ongo book - NVC, Zen mindfulness, and community practice
• Oren Sofer - NVC and mindfulness/meditation practice
• Thom Bond - online Compassion Course
• David Weinstock - NVC and somatic practice
• Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC) - NVC and community, diversity, and social engagement and change
• Ike Lasater - NVC & Organizations. Books by Ike:
  • Words That Work in Business, 2nd edition with expanded material
  • Collaborating in the Workplace
• Newt Bailey - NVC & Organizations, Communicationjojo.com

Waking Up Course - mindfulness meditation app by Sam Harris, incorporates nondual awareness practice, interviews of a breadth and diversity of mindfulness teachers, and much more

Tim Freke - philosophy of "unividualism," emergent/evolutionary spirituality, integrates dual and nondual mindfulness, and science and spirituality

Diana Winston - mindfulness teacher, UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, spectrum of awareness practices

Loch Kelly - mindfulness and nondual awareness teacher

Henry Shukman - Zen mindfulness, Koan practices

The Headless Way - a unique, Western-based way of accessing and practicing nondual awareness, originated by Douglas Harding, who wrote the book On Having No Head. In this tradition I recommend Richard Lang.

Insight Timer - meditation and relaxation app, thousands of meditation teachers, lots of free material as well as paid

Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach - heart, compassion, and acceptance-based guided mindfulness meditations, practices, writings, and more

Pema Chodron - Buddhist mindfulness and working with adversity

David Treleaven - Meditation and trauma

Willoughby Britton and Jared Lindahl - Support for psychological distress from meditation

Kristin Neff - mindful self-compassion

Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz

David Whyte - poet, author, speaker, the conversational nature of reality, poetry and organizations

Francis Weller - soul and grief work, community building

Joanna Macy - deep ecology, social activism, grief work

Lynne Twist - Soul of Money Institute and Pachamama Alliance (partnership between environmental-social activism and indigenous community and wisdom)

Brother David Steindl-Rast - gratefulness and social change

Richard Rohr - Franciscan priest, author, speaker. Offers a universal and deep interpretation of christianity, science and spirituality, and transformation. Two most recent books: The Universal Christ and The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Nassim Haramein - unity science, Resonance Science Foundation, video - Connected Universe [LINK]