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Navigating Conflict

Access this complete 6 session course Use Nonviolent Communication and mediation skills to transform conflict into connection. This course recording is ideal for anyone who wants to contribute to mutual co-operation and effectiveness with adults and children, in business or with family and friends. Lessons cover the essential elements needed to weave connection during conflict, including:...
Thank You: Finding the Gift in Everything That Happens

Jim and Jori Manske share strategies for employing gratitude to create more joy in life, jettisoning the fear of asking for what you want, and welcoming feedback no matter how it is delivered. Try this thought experiment exercise designed to: Train yourself to become aware of the presence of conflict Engage in a perspective broader than your habitual reactive patterns Engage your curiosity to...
Recovering from Reactivity Series

Join Jim and Jori Manske in this thought experiment exercise designed to: Train ourselves to become aware of the presence of conflict Engage in a perspective broader than our habitual reactive patterns Engage our curiosity to remain open Connect to our own needs in a reactive situation {attachment:all} Keywords: exercises/practices feelings observation presence strategies personal growth self...
Working with a Difficult Counseling Situation

diagnosis, advice or strategies onto the patient when we’re fearful for their immediate physical well being Weighing the internal conflict between a desire to protect life, and your value for healing to be choiceful How to effectively defuse patient rage in the moment without overstepping your practitioner boundaries Tools to deeply empathize with the pain we feel as we experience violence in...
The Murky Waters of Asymmetric Relationships

I still wish we had met someplace else. To conclude, I can only wish that all of us who are working in helping professions would get all the help and support that we need, all the therapy and healing, so that we would not be giving therapies and leading retreats in order to meet our own needs for appreciation and acceptance and closeness and intimacy, but to primarily support our clients and...
Mourning Our Losses

or that your situation just isn’t so bad that you need to carry on about it? Every time we tell ourselves that our sadness and grief are not worth mourning, we cut ourselves off from potential healing and life. Mourning, in a Nonviolent Communication process, involves allowing ourselves to feel the pain of the unmet needs in our life. In some ways, this process is about recognizing the depth and...
Radical Understanding In A Post-Truth World

As difficult as it can be to do, the practice of radical empathic understanding — letting go attachment or desire for shared belief — becomes in my view not only a meaningful and valuable personal challenge but also a way to contribute to the larger world culture of “post-truth.” It may be a way that we humans can bridge the gulf of our differences in beliefs in order to come together to live...
Connecting to Self

be present in interactions with others. The inner chatter quieted. Today, it is such a relief to be present to myself and to the people in my life. I wish everyone knew how much connecting to and healing ourselves can improve our relationships with others. The four steps to self-empathy (done quietly to yourself, not expressed out loud) are: Enjoy the jackal show—acknowledge the judgments you...
It Takes a Community to Raise a Relationship

generously poured over red hot rocks and the steam pushes me deeper into my hidden places. This is the third and hottest of four rounds in this sweat lodge ceremony. I feel pain rising. There is healing that I need for the blocks that come up in relationship with my beloved, and I’m here to receive support for that healing. Some of the others in the lodge I know well; many I haven’t met before....
Functional Empathy that Supports Connection and Efficiency

you ever been in a meeting where the agenda is full and someone gets triggered? Did you get stuck in an empathy spiral that leads to a never ending meeting? Roxy Manning differentiates between healing empathy and functional empathy, and how you can be both productive and maintain connection to those in your meeting. Healing empathy's purpose is connection and healing. Functional empathy purpose...