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“ Do not pay attention to your weakness, but to the intensity of your longing. ”
Rumi
“ There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, Seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of that, Don't look outside... Look inside yourself and seek that. ”
Rumi
“ To give is domination if not also to receive. ”
Marshall Rosenberg
“ A prayer is a request made from a small part of god to a large part of god ”
Deepak Chopra
“ May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these opening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea ”
Rilke
“ Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“ Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. ”
Thich Nat Hahan
“ Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ”
Rilke
“ If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. ”
Gautama Buddha
“ Be the one who, when you walk in, Blessing shifts to the one who needs it most. Even if you've not been fed, Be bread. ”
Jelaladdin Rumi
“ The greatest protection in all the world is loving kindness ”
Buddha
“ Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ He said, "How do you benefit from this life?" I said, "By keeping true to myself. ”
Rumi
“ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Every other thing has been tried and failed. Brute force has had the fullest chance and no one is happier or more moral or more courageous for it. ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ The inspiration you seek is already within you, Be quiet and listen ”
Rumi
“ If you treat a man as he appears to be you make him worse. But if you treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he can be. ”
Goethe
“ You have never done anything wrong. You never have. You never will. You’ve done some things, that if you knew then what you are learning now, you would do it differently. And (the fun part is), it will always be this way. ”
Marshall B Rosenberg
“ Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. ”
Rumi
“ I nourish a seed named Love. ”
Rumi
“ This path of gratitude is not for children; it is the path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration. ”
Rumi
“ Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ”
Hafiz
“ When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge ”
Rumi
“ Love's greatest gift is its ability to make sacred everything it touches. ”
Rumi
“ Respond to every call that excites your spirit. ”
Rumi
“ Love is the bridge between you and everything. ”
Rumi
“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”
Hafiz
“ The words you speak become the house you live in. ”
Hafiz
“ Let the beauty we love be what we do... There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ”
Rumi
“ The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Courage is a heart word. Be brave. Love hard. ”
Brene Brown
“ The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be. ”
Graham White
“ If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ”
Rumi
“ Protect yourself from your own thoughts. ”
Rumi
“ The things we desire are sacred.
Who put them in our hearts if not God? ”
Talmud
“ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ”
Rumi
“ Faith is, above all, open-ness — an act of trust in the unknown ”
Alan Wilson Watts
“ Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“ So quickly, increase your need, needy one, that the sea of abundance may surge up in loving-kindness. ”
Rumi
“ This turning deeply towards what you love, saves you ”
Rumi
“ Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same. ”
Marshall B Rosenberg
“ To speak your truth is to praise God ”
Hildegard of Bingen
“ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”
Rumi
“ Whatever purifies you is the right path. ”
Rumi
“ Insight is an impulse of love dissolving some old imprint. ”
Deepak Chopra
“ There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ”
Rumi
“ Wherever you may be, in whatever situation or circumstances, strive to be a lover, and a passionate lover. ”
Rumi
“ Be with those who help your being. ”
Rumi
“ To be still is love. To be in movement is life. To be still and in movement is a miracle. ”
Anonymous
“ Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ”
Albert Schweitzer
“ When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. ”
Madeleine L'Engle
“ Your work is to discover your work and than with whole your heart give yourself to it ”
Buddha
“ Let your own presence be something that convinces the world. ”
Ken Wilber
“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”
Hafiz
“ What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. ”
Rumi
“ Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”
Rumi

“ When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge ”
Rumi
“ The greatest protection in all the world is loving kindness ”
Buddha
“ When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. ”
Madeleine L'Engle
“ If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. ”
Gautama Buddha
“ Whatever purifies you is the right path. ”
Rumi
“ What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. ”
Rumi
“ A prayer is a request made from a small part of god to a large part of god ”
Deepak Chopra
“ Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. ”
Rumi
“ You have never done anything wrong. You never have. You never will. You’ve done some things, that if you knew then what you are learning now, you would do it differently. And (the fun part is), it will always be this way. ”
Marshall B Rosenberg
“ Be with those who help your being. ”
Rumi
“ Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Courage is a heart word. Be brave. Love hard. ”
Brene Brown
“ Faith is, above all, open-ness — an act of trust in the unknown ”
Alan Wilson Watts
“ Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ”
Rumi
“ Respond to every call that excites your spirit. ”
Rumi
“ Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ”
Hafiz
“ Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”
Rumi
“ Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ”
Rilke
“ Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same. ”
Marshall B Rosenberg
“ Your work is to discover your work and than with whole your heart give yourself to it ”
Buddha
“ This turning deeply towards what you love, saves you ”
Rumi
“ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ To be still is love. To be in movement is life. To be still and in movement is a miracle. ”
Anonymous
“ There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, Seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of that, Don't look outside... Look inside yourself and seek that. ”
Rumi
“ Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ”
Albert Schweitzer
“ Let your own presence be something that convinces the world. ”
Ken Wilber
“ There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ”
Rumi
“ If you treat a man as he appears to be you make him worse. But if you treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he can be. ”
Goethe
“ Love's greatest gift is its ability to make sacred everything it touches. ”
Rumi
“ Love is the bridge between you and everything. ”
Rumi
“ Do not pay attention to your weakness, but to the intensity of your longing. ”
Rumi
“ Protect yourself from your own thoughts. ”
Rumi
“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”
Hafiz
“ The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be. ”
Graham White
“ The inspiration you seek is already within you, Be quiet and listen ”
Rumi
“ Be the one who, when you walk in, Blessing shifts to the one who needs it most. Even if you've not been fed, Be bread. ”
Jelaladdin Rumi
“ Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“ May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these opening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea ”
Rilke
“ Insight is an impulse of love dissolving some old imprint. ”
Deepak Chopra
“ If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ”
Rumi
“ Wherever you may be, in whatever situation or circumstances, strive to be a lover, and a passionate lover. ”
Rumi
“ Every other thing has been tried and failed. Brute force has had the fullest chance and no one is happier or more moral or more courageous for it. ”
Mahatma Ghandi
“ The things we desire are sacred.
Who put them in our hearts if not God? ”
Talmud
“ Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. ”
Thich Nat Hahan
“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”
Hafiz
“ Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“ Let the beauty we love be what we do... There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ”
Rumi
“ To give is domination if not also to receive. ”
Marshall Rosenberg
“ To speak your truth is to praise God ”
Hildegard of Bingen
“ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”
Rumi
“ The words you speak become the house you live in. ”
Hafiz
“ I nourish a seed named Love. ”
Rumi
“ He said, "How do you benefit from this life?" I said, "By keeping true to myself. ”
Rumi
“ This path of gratitude is not for children; it is the path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration. ”
Rumi
“ So quickly, increase your need, needy one, that the sea of abundance may surge up in loving-kindness. ”
Rumi

Reclaiming Truth

Connecting to our authentic experience in every given moment, aligning how we show up with our inner reality.

Reclaiming Vulnerability

Embracing our needs and longings with radical compassion, while accepting not-knowing whether they will be met or not. Recovering our sense of mattering as inherent to our needs being an expression of life.

Reclaiming Innocence

Assuming trust that everything human beings are doing or saying is an attempt to meet their human needs, no different than our own.

Reclaiming Interdependence

Unconditional Receiving: Reclaiming our trust in being cared for by others, and in the sufficiency of resources to care for the whole of life.

Unconditional giving: accessing our natural generosity and joy of giving. Orienting to service of others and life.

Reclaiming Flow

Reclaiming our innate state of flow; the freedom to follow, our aliveness and creativity, and what most excites our spirit.

Reclaiming Freedom

Grounding in our inner authority - our innate freedom to make autonomous choices, internally motivated by our needs, values, purpose and care for the whole.

Reclaiming Truth

Connecting to our authentic experience in every given moment, aligning how we show up with our inner reality.

Reclaiming Vulnerability

Reclaiming Innocence

Assuming trust that everything human beings are doing or saying is an attempt to meet their human needs, no different than our own.

Reclaiming Interdependence

Unconditional Receiving: Reclaiming our trust in being cared for by others, and in the sufficiency of resources to care for the whole of life.

Unconditional giving: accessing our natural generosity and joy of giving. Orienting to service of others and life.

Reclaiming Flow

Reclaiming our innate state of flow; the freedom to follow, our aliveness and creativity, and what most excites our spirit.

Reclaiming Freedom

Grounding in our inner authority - our innate freedom to make autonomous choices, internally motivated by our needs, values, purpose and care for the whole.

Reclaiming Truth

Connecting to our authentic experience in every given moment, aligning how we show up with our inner reality.

Reclaiming Vulnerability

Reclaiming Innocence

Assuming trust that everything human beings are doing or saying is an attempt to meet their human needs, no different than our own.

Reclaiming Freedom

Grounding in our inner authority - our innate freedom to make autonomous choices, internally motivated by our needs, values, purpose and care for the whole.

Reclaiming Flow

Reclaiming our innate state of flow; the freedom to follow, our aliveness and creativity, and what most excites our spirit.

Reclaiming Interdependence

Unconditional Receiving: Reclaiming our trust in being cared for by others, and in the sufficiency of resources to care for the whole of life.

Unconditional giving: accessing our natural generosity and joy of giving. Orienting to service of others and life.

Parenting during COVID: Fox Interview with Aya Caspi

NVC Zen Retreat, Allsgood Farm, Penn Valley, CA May, 2023

'Love Thy Enemy' - Empathy for Transformation

Parenting during COVID: Fox Interview with Aya Caspi

NVC Zen Retreat, Allsgood Farm, Penn Valley, CA May, 2023

'Love Thy Enemy' - Empathy for Transformation

Asking fully without attachment - NVC Houston

Convergent Facilitation Coaching Call on Power Differences (excerpts)

NVC Zen: Living in the Paradox of Both/And

Asking fully without attachment - NVC Houston

Convergent Facilitation Coaching Call on Power Differences (excerpts)

NVC Zen: Living in the Paradox of Both/And

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Educational Consultant to Kids Media

With a specific focus on kids and family programming, Aya has served as the educational consultant on several preschool series, creating original curriculums and consulting on show development and scripting. Her client list includes 9 Story Media Group, Cartoon Saloon, Field Day Entertainment, Cartoon Network and HBO Max.

Rebels with a Cause: How creative disobedience makes kids their best selves

Lu & The Bally Bunch

Opening sequence

Goodbye Rain Boots

Down the Grumps

Silly Sundays

Opening sequence

Crab Home

Broken Ducky

From Kim Howitt, Senior Creative Executive in Warner Bros:

I have worked closely with Aya over the past year on several preschool shows for HBO Max and Cartoonito. The overall learning philosophy for our preschool programming is called Human Centric Learning, and NVC inspired communication skills fit perfectly into this framework. Aya develops specific curriculum for our shows, and reviews scripts at every stage, to ensure that we meet our educational goals in age-appropriate ways. She works closely with writers and creators to craft storylines that entertain, inspire and educate our littlest viewers. She has made a huge impact on our children's programming offering by integrating NVC philosophy into several of our shows. Her innate understanding of both the audience and of storytelling makes her work with storytellers particularly valuable. Writers are not only inspired by how she deepens their narratives, but how in doing so, she's actually changing their own lives.

From Nuria González Blanco, Creator and Director, Cartoon Saloon:

I have the pleasure of collaborating with Aya Caspi on our preschool series Silly Sundays. Aya is our Educational Consultant (NVC) and her feedback on the scripts helps elevate the show to a new level of empathy and supportive communication. I appreciate how much care Aya puts into explaining the reasoning behind her notes, and how she provides helpful examples that easily illustrate the Non Violent Communication method. I’m grateful Aya is part of the Silly Sundays team and I hope our collaboration will continue on many more projects to come.

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