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NVC as a Strategy

specific. Well, Compassionate Communication is a process, but also a strategy. The needs I try to meet by living and teaching this process are harmony, peace, fun, love, safety, joy, and deeper connection to my life. The needs are universal, and the strategy I have found that best meets those needs is Compassionate Communication. There are many ways to meet our needs in life, and we all choose...
Knowing Ourselves

would see that yelling is not an effective way to be heard. We may get attention, but we are rarely heard or enjoyed. What is your greatest need? Maybe it is for acceptance, understanding, love, connection, or to be heard. What are you doing to manifest the satisfaction of this need? Consider whether your behaviors are likely to help you succeed. When your behaviors are in alignment with your...
The Difference Between Needs and Requests

ask for actions that might fulfill our needs. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. In Nonviolent Communication, we see needs as universal. That means that everyone has the same needs for love, support, connection, resources, food, shelter, etc. A request is a specific action we ask of another person to help us meet our needs. I may need companionship, so I ask a friend to spend time with me over the...
Speaking Up Is an Expression of Love

up for myself meets my needs for love and respect. When I’m honest with the people in my life, I demonstrate my love and respect for them. I show that I value the relationship and I want our connection to continue. For today, speak up the minute you start to feel annoyed, hurt, disappointed, or angry to demonstrate your love for yourself and the other person. This trainer tip is an excerpt from...
The Compass - Taking Responsibility in the Face of Guilt and Judgment

in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only does this process enable you to heal the wearying, unending struggle between you and yourself, it also helps you get "unstuck" so you can finally move beyond old...
The Compass

complete 8 session course The Compass is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only does this process enable you to heal the wearying, unending struggle between you and yourself, it also helps you get "unstuck" so you can finally move beyond old...
The Compass - Awakening to the Journey from You to Yourself

in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only does this process enable you to heal the wearying, unending struggle between you and yourself, it also helps you get "unstuck" so you can finally move beyond old...
Going Deep

is that between Needs and Strategies. Needs are universal; they never refer to a specific person performing any specific action. They are the conditions necessary for any person to thrive: love, connection, creative expression, choice as to our goals and the path to achieve them, intimacy, consideration, meaning, and so on. Strategies are the ways we go about meeting Needs. We get in trouble...
Perceiving Reality

us in public. Instead, we choose to think that the situation isn’t that bad. When we try to make another person fit into a reality that we prefer in order to meet our own needs—whether for love, connection, or financial security—everyone suffers. Instead, bring your focus back to yourself. Notice which of your needs are met or unmet when you spend time with someone. Don’t judge them; just focus...
Needs Analysis

themselves. The next exercise was to identify everything we did to meet that need. Without exception, all of us did things that kept us from meeting our most important need. Mine was a need for connection, yet I actively kept people at bay. I was disheartened to realize that I had spent my life making it impossible to meet this need. Then the trainer said: “But wait. It’s okay. Nonviolent...