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Transform Your Inner Critic With Radical Self-Compassion: The NVC Guilt Process
With Hans van Veen
When we are feeling guilty, we're in a state where two inner parts are at odds with each other. There's the 'educator' part, telling us what we did 'wrong', and there's the 'chooser' part (that chose the action), wanting to defend itself and its choice, from being educated. To relax this inner tension, we can use the 'guilt process' of Nonviolent Communication, seeing the beauty of both parts and empathizing deeply on the level of Needs for both. This 'inner mediation' (without a T) cultivates compassion for the conflicted inner voices and restores our inner harmony. Image: Getty
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2 Days
249 students
4.8 stars
14 min / day
Compassion
English
4.8 (34)
Recent Reviews
Twila
January 7, 2026
Always loved NVC and got more clarity with IFS and the alethia method. Thank you so much!
Michelle
December 28, 2025
Thank you for this introduction of Alethiea coaching and NVC. It was a lot in a short amount of time! I had a glimpse of getting to a core need but I would have liked a little more time to integrate the steps. Again, I appreciate the overview 🙏
Pat
December 4, 2025
Really turned my perspective in my healing journey on a major part of me, thank you for the help
Nora
November 24, 2025
Explained very clear.
Hanna
June 4, 2025
Great course. Amazing how useful this practise was, and how complete the course, only two days 🤍
Juany
February 18, 2025
Thank you very much that's was helpful,...i will absolutely go back and listen to it again! 🙏🩵🙏
Kim
January 23, 2025
Really interesting and a new way for me to drop in for myself emotionally.
Alison
December 14, 2024
This was very effective practice to help me deal with my very, loud and insistent inner critic voice. I chose to do this short course as today’s meditation and my inner critic feels very much seen and heard and the part of me that was feeling guilt and shame is also feeling validated and no longer shamed. The writing or journalling of the exercise is what made this process work. I would love to see more of this work from Hans, and it was also like the “how to guide” for Internal Family Systems demo that Dr Diana Hill does with IfS Dr Shwartz here on insight timer.
Linda
November 7, 2024
Very helpful as I have been thinking of how to repurpose the inner critic knowing intellectually there are no bad parts and this has given me a real insight into that. I love the idea of NVC relating to the external and the internal.
Nancy
November 4, 2024
Thank you! This processing surprised me with its gentle effectiveness. I am now considering differently the grief and regrets I have been carrying regarding my brother and a former partner, both deceased, wishing I could have prevented estrangement.
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