# NVConnect — Communication for Connection

> Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practice and integration support tool. (iPhone/iPad app by Herman Veluwenkamp.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nvconnect/id1456725007 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Herman Veluwenkamp](https://appshunter.io/developer/1091421615)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: $11.99
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2019-10-28
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nvconnect/id1456725007/reviews.md

## What is NVConnect?

NVConnect is designed to provide Nonviolent Communication (NVC) support at your fingertips. It supports and provides ways to practice, integrate, and deepen NVC principles – growing your capacities to shift from reaction to authentic empowered response and empathy. This comprehensive and easily interactive application also offers great diversity for engaging with your NVC practice: offering choices for starting from where you want to start (starting where you are at or with what is ‘alive’ for you) as well as options to export your process or practice sessions and expand on them, reflect on them, or journal them beyond the App.

All the NVC material was authored by New Zealand NVC facilitator Filipa Hope and her work Communication for Connection (significantly influenced by the NVC work of Dr Robert Gonzales: living-compassion.org). She donated her work for this application in support of the NVC worldwide movement. She welcomes feedback on her work at www.facebook.com/FilipaHope

NVConnect will appeal to those who are serious about deepening and integrating their NVC skills, and it can be used by those yet unfamiliar with NVC (In this case it is highly recommended to use it in conjunction with Dr Marshall Rosenberg’s book "Nonviolent Communication a Language of Life")

This application is not intended to "teach" NVC, but rather to support your practices and processes by providing a large range of easily accessible instant support. It includes the components of NVC (Observation, Feelings, Needs, Requests) and additional components of Intention, Stimulus, and Choice – all with extensive guidance.

NVConnect offers an extensive help section, reminders, and suggestions for each component - including a gift of Invitations for Intentions (to deepen your NVC practice) created by Filipa, especially for this application. Also, there are expanded feelings and needs lists, a faux feelings list, and many inspirational quotes offered throughout.

Some of the ways NVConnect can support you to develop and build your capacities:

• Experience needs as essential and powerful.
• Cultivate a nurturing relationship with yourself.
• Learn to appreciate what triggers you.
• Identify reactive thinking.
• Bring compassion to reactivity.
• Move to an empowering relationship with all your feelings.
• Transform enemy images and moralistic judgments.
• Connect with our common humanity.
• Grow awareness of bias and conditioning that enables violence.
• Identify solutions that meet needs in harmony with needs.
• Shift power struggles to collaboration and trust.
• Come from an energy of love rather than fear.
• Motivate using “power-with” rather than “power-over” strategies.
• Make choices on their merits to serve life rather than control.
• Transform shame and depression into personal power.
• Heal old pain and transform unhealthy habits.
• Respond rather than react.
• Listen to understand rather than to reply.
• Engage from authenticity rather than behaviour modification.

## Key features

- Practice NVC principles
- Shift from reaction to response
- Cultivate empathy
- Export practice sessions
- Extensive help section
- Expanded feelings and needs lists

## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nvconnect/id1456725007/reviews.md

### 1/5 — What the hell is this?

*2020-05-18, version 2.1*

This is the most poorly designed app I have ever paid for. I cannot even read half of what is written in the app because the designer put it in white. This makes me want to design an app for NVC despite not knowing anything about app design, but I know I could do better than this. I feel like I was taken advantage of because a lot of people who look for a NVC app are looking for help in a crisis and are willing to shell out 15 bucks for anything that would make them feel better. This made me feel worse.

**Developer response:** I’m sorry to hear your distress and hopefully the issue can be resolved. You say your difficulty is around not being able to read content due to the colour. My guess is that your phone is overriding the default colour scheme (which is as shown in the App Store screenshots.) This may happen through changing the accessibility settings, or more likely in your case you have selected dark mode in your display settings, which unfortunately the app does not support. However, now that you have made me aware the issue I will add some rules in the next minor release to prevent the overriding of these colour settings. In the meantime you could use the normal display mode on your phone to easily access all that the app offers to support engaging with all the components of NVC

## Frequently asked questions about NVConnect

### What is NVConnect?

NVConnect is a mobile application designed to support and provide ways to practice, integrate, and deepen Nonviolent Communication (NVC) principles. It helps users shift from reaction to authentic empowered response and empathy.

### What are the core components of NVC covered by NVConnect?

NVConnect includes the core components of NVC: Observation, Feelings, Needs, and Requests. It also incorporates additional components such as Intention, Stimulus, and Choice, all with extensive guidance.

### Can I export my practice sessions from NVConnect?

Yes, NVConnect offers options to export your process or practice sessions. This allows you to expand on them, reflect on them, or journal them beyond the app.

### Is NVConnect suitable for beginners to NVC?

NVConnect can be used by those unfamiliar with NVC. However, it is highly recommended to use it in conjunction with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s book "Nonviolent Communication a Language of Life" for a comprehensive understanding.

### What kind of support does NVConnect offer for feelings and needs?

NVConnect provides expanded lists for feelings and needs, including a faux feelings list. It also offers inspirational quotes throughout the application to enhance your NVC practice.

### What is the price of NVConnect?

NVConnect is a paid application priced at $11.99.

### On which devices can I use NVConnect?

NVConnect is supported on iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices.

### How often is NVConnect updated?

The latest version of NVConnect is 2.2, and it was last updated on January 1, 2021.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2 — 2021-01-01

Fixes for the following issues:
 - Prevent override of colours when device is in dark theme.
 - Support for iPad. Restricted to full screen.

### 2.1 — 2020-05-07

Fixes for the following issues:
- Formatting for larger displays.
- Session timestamp issue. 
Under the hood platform upgrade.

### 2.0 — 2020-03-31

This latest version is a rewrite of the original version with some added enhancements to make it more robust and easier to use. Note that your previously saved sessions will be deleted, so you may wish to export your existing sessions before updating to this latest version.

### 1.0.1 — 2019-12-10

Some minor changes to the text.

### 1.0 — 2019-10-28

No release notes.

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All apps by Herman Veluwenkamp: https://appshunter.io/developer/1091421615

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