2022
We’re excited to have set up a streaming option for viewing our videos (up to now only available on DVDs)!
The Yes/No Dance is now available in Italian (in addition to the 3 dances in ’Set A’).
Three Dance Floors (Set A) are now available in Greek!
Romanian and Hungarian Dance Floors will be available soon.
2021
Celebrating the completion of the Polish Dance Floors! And some Dances now available in Russian!
2020
Celebrating that the Dance Floors are now available in Finnish!
Translation teams continue their work in Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Romanian. And we are supporting new teams who have begun work in Greek and Hungarian.
2019
We’re celebrating that the Facilitator’s Handbook was published in French this year!
And that the Dance Floors are now available in Arabic and Turkish!
We are supporting translation teams who are working to create Dance Floors in Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Romanian.
2018
We regularly receive requests from people who want to translate the Dance Floors into their language. To smooth the path for this we have developed a 'Self-Led Translation agreement’.
NEW LANGUAGES in 2017
We’re thrilled that, thanks to translation teams in Italy and Japan, the Dance floors are now available in Italian (Set A only) and in Japanese (all the Dances).
JUNE 2014
To meet the continuous growth of Dance Floor use globally in June 2014 - 11 years after our first publication - we launched new and updated products, new and easy to navigate websites, and a contemporary
distribution system.
NEW PRODUCTS in 2014
•
Introduction video on YouTube, to inspire,
inform and reach out.
•
Professionally made training/learning DVDs, for witnessing
the subtlety, depth and clarity of Dance Floor processes.
• 3rd edition of the Facilitator's Handbook (includes the
newest Dances and the Intention Frame).
•
'NVC Dialogue' App for smart phones, puts
the 13 Step Dance Floor in your pocket (in English only).
NEW LANGUAGES in 2014
•
Spanish Dance Floors are now available, to reach
many new communities.
• We created a new document to serve as the basis for an agreement with anyone wanting to translate
into new languages.
NEW HOME-PRINTING OPTIONS, AND
PROFESSIONAL QUALITY HARD COPY in 2014
•
User Licence system for home printing, to suit a
wider range of users.
•
On-demand manufacturing of high quality Dance
Floor sets.
NEW DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURE in 2014
• New ways for everyone to participate in Dance
Floor distribution, to maximise our outreach
•
A Distributor Licence creates clarity about
selling and giving away printed Dance Floors.
•
An Affiliate programme enables anyone to become
a seller of all the Dance Floor products by linking to our Online Shop.
Affiliates benefit financially, but have no financial risk, admin, stock, or
effort.
NEW ONLINE SHOP in 2014
• Visit our shop with a new look and new functionality at: www.life-resources-shop.com
• Website with pages and payment in many languages, for ease of acquiring our products.
• Electronic (downloadable) items, as well as tangible goods.
• A simple low-cost delivery charge per item, to anywhere in the world.
NEW DANCE FLOOR WEBSITE in 2014
• Contemporary look suitable for phones and tablets.
• Dance Floor intro leaflet to download and share (in 8 languages).
• Info on languages, translations and adaptations of Dance Floors.
• Intro video on home page.
We continue to supply our NVC Dance Floors
and support materials in 9 languages:
• English
•
German
•
French
•
Dutch
•
Danish
•
Korean
•
Norwegian
•
Swedish
•
Spanish
And in 2018 also Japanese and Italian! Now in 11 languages!
And in 2019 - Mandarin (simplified Chinese) is soon to be published, and Arabic and Turkish are available!
Information about the Dance Floors in other languages is here.
To purchase our materials visit our Online Shop.
See our YouTube video here: http://youtu.be/KbBw6dXXdDU
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Dance Floors publishing history
1998 - Bridget Belgrave and Gina Lawrie begin developing the Dance Floors for use in their own workshops
2000 - Bridget and Gina share early versions of Dance Floors at an the international NVC 'Giraffe Convention' in Sweden
2001 - Growing interest from colleagues around the world led to a decision to write a Facilitator's Handbook
2003 - Published the 7 original Dance Floors, and the Facilitator's Handbook, in English
2005 - Published in German (7 Dances and Facilitator's Handbook)
2005 - Published in French (7 Dances)
2006 - Published 'Connect with Respect' project handbook/film, and the 'Connect with Respect' Dance Floor (in English)
2006 - Published 7 Dances and Facilitator's Handbook in Danish
2007 - Published 7 Dances in Dutch
2007 - Published 7 Dances in Swedish
2008 - Published 7 Dances in Norwegian
2008 - Published the 'How To Guidelines' - basic information for each Dance, for end users
2009 - Published the 9th (and final!) Dance Floor (in 4 languages)
2011 - Began new media projects: DVDs (with subtitles in 6 languages), Apps for smart phones, and Online Coaching Tool
2011 - Published the 13 Step Dance in Korean, and the How To Guidelines for the Jackal Café (in English)
2012 - First App released, and the two newer Dances now in 6 languages
2013 - Published in Spanish (9 Dances and all support material except Facilitator's Handbook)
2013 - Filled in gaps so all our products are in 6 languages - English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish. (Many of our products are in Norwegian and Danish, and the 13 Step Dance, Anger Dance and Self Empathy Dance is in Korean)
2014 - Launch of new websites, new DVDs (with subtitles in 6 languages), new translation system, new distribution system
2017 - Published in Japanese (9 Dances and all support material except Facilitator's Handbook)
2017 - Published in Italian (3 Dances with their support material)
2018 - Developed a ‘Self-Led Translation Agreement’ to make it easier to say yes to offers to translate into new languages
2019 - Published Facilitator’s Handbook in French
2019 - Published in Arabic (9 Dances and all support material except Facilitator's Handbook)
2019 - Published in Turkish (9 Dances and all support material except Facilitator's Handbook)
2019 - Mandarin (simplified Chinese) ready for publication (9 Dances, all support material and the Facilitator's Handbook)