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What Is NVC? A Restorative Path to Connection and Healing

and in our relationships. If you're exploring what NVC is or how it works, this video offers a grounding and hopeful introduction. Keywords: Aya Caspi searchable transcript captions self-empathy needs consciousness connection requests emotional regulation radical compassion honest expression transform judgments
The Needs of the Many

LoraKim Joyner addresses the sense of overwhelm, sometimes accompanied by ideology, that can impede holding the needs of the many. Practicing self-empathy is a pathway to living in the tension of mutually holding my needs and the needs of others. Keywords: consciousness needs strategies intention social change spirituality peace power fear interdependence awareness universal human needs LoraKim...
Developing Discernment

Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices. Discernment Exercise: Using the "Four Choices" for Self-Empathy Once each day, write down a message you found difficult to hear... Imagine receiving the message and then internally responding with each of these choices: 1. Judgmental (Jackal) Ears Out Voice...
Money, Needs, and Resources

resources are more widely available and everyone's needs are met no matter what their output, income, power, circumstances, etc. May we find our way towards infusing the system with this level of empathy before it's too late. Read this article Keywords: extinction resource allocation empathy society Resource distribution consumption needs money systemic change social change Miki Kashtan
Choosing Your Response

your choice based on the needs you want to meet. This trainer tip is an excerpt from Mary Mackenzie's book, Peaceful Living, available from PuddleDancer Press. Keywords: choice blame reactivity empathy Mary Mackenzie
The Power of Being Heard

Instantly, he started to cry because he felt so touched that someone understood what he was trying to say. He had been having the same argument with his wife for years, but in that minute of empathy, he was heard for the first time. To hear another’s feelings and needs is one of the most powerful methods to defuse anger and create space for resolution that I have ever encountered. It may seem...
Loving Someone For Who They Are And Still Making Requests

If someone asks you to love them as is, try wondering what contributes to their need for acceptance. Loving someone and empathizing with them, doesn't mean you can't make requests for change. Recall that your requests are about your needs, not about them. Understand that requests may not be met due to lack of resources or skills, even if the desire is there. Clarify how important the request is...
The Lonely Trainer

but would grab them by their ears when necessary. Because they love them enough, they care for them and they have an intimate relationship with them that is based on trust and equality. And empathy. A few years back I worked, in a couple of large projects, with a fellow trainer who brought NVC to her country and did, in ten years or so, a heroic job of spreading it across many levels of society…...
Liberty and Justice for All?

This theme has continued on through the generations in various forms, including how we have related to other peoples, countries, and the natural world and environment. I struggle with finding empathy for the magnitude of all this, for those who want to maintain this way of relating, and for those who cling to the mythology. I also struggle for empathy with how the objectification, implicit...
NVC in Hostage Negotiations and Hospitals

with a team of hostage negotiators. He soon discovered that most people who take hostages want to be heard, possibly more than anything else. When a negotiator slipped into sympathy, rather than empathy, he was removed from the situation immediately. This focus on empathy in hostage negotiations has been highly successful. Wes then discusses his role in providing NVC training in a Maryland...