NVC Resources on Exercises and Practices
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New Year's Revolutions - For a Change
Here's a four step exercise applying a needs-based approach to effective goals, habits and New Year's Resolutions: Read This Tip Keywords: emotional liberation resolutions goals New year habits sabotage change Trainer Tip Jori Manske
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NVC Life Hacks 25
In this Life Hack, we're going deeper into self-empathy with a simple guided reflection that you can work through. This will be followed by a short exercise with a fill-in sheet (link above) led by Gesine and is something you can come back to as you wish. {attachment:all} Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren self-empathy self-compassion
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Responding to Criticism
In general, criticism is a reactive response to discomfort. When someone criticizes, they are not yet able or willing to take responsibility for their needs. All criticism is a tragic expression of feelings and unmet needs. When you meet that criticism skillfully you not only care for yourself, you can facilitate clarity, and constructive communication, about what the other person is truly...
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Connected Decision Making
If you're stuck when making a decision with someone, it's likely that you've skipped hearing and connecting to one another's needs. Slow down and listen for what's really important underneath the content. This allows you to make decisions that are more fulfilling and harmonious. Read this article Keywords: practice decision problem solving finances relationship money argumen conflict resolution...
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Simple Interventions for Chronic Reactivity
For each reactive pattern there is a perceived threat to a tender need. Knowing these tender needs helps us figure out how to interrupt these patterns and creating new ways of perceiving and relating to life. In addition to knowing the need, knowing the healing response, and the primary reactive behavior helps with transformation. Read this article Keywords: practice reactivity trigger fear...
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Overcoming Defensiveness
A big part of why receiving feedback is so challenging is because so few people around us know how to give feedback untainted with criticism, judgment, or our personal upset. But, if we wait for others to offer us usable, digestible, manageable feedback, we will not likely receive sufficient feedback for our growth and learning. Instead, we can grow in our capacity to fish the pearl that’s...
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Preparing for Difficult Dialogue
Effective and connected dialogue requires significant self-awareness, mindfulness, and skill. You can focus on any of these six areas that most often escape your awareness: anchoring and staying grounded; boundaries; thoughts and beliefs; stuckness or attachment; feelings and needs; and requests. Read on for a list of questions to help you focus on how to do that. Read this article Keywords:...
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How to Invite Shared Vulnerability
Shared vulnerability can build more intimacy, mutuality, being seen and heard, empathy, or community. Inviting shared vulnerability means earning another’s trust that you can consistently offer attentive, curious, and compassionate listening. Here are four strategies to invite shared vulnerability. Read this article Keywords: practice intimacy shared vulnerability mutuality trust listening safe...
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Empathy vs. Investigation
To tell the difference between empathy and investigation, watch for distinctions along four different dimensions: energy, subject, intention and trust. These distinctions can help us engage awareness and skill to meet your needs and respond to others’ needs in more direct ways. The more you meet your needs in conscious and direct ways, the more present you can be for others. Read on for more...
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Being Resourceful With My Intense Emotions
What can we do to bring vitality and resourcefulness back into our lives when we are feeling overwhelmed, depressed, anxious, or frustrated? Read on for a nine step process. Read This Tip Keywords: Trainer Tip emotional liberation intense emotions overwhelm depression anxiety frustration vitality resourcefulness challenge practice Jori Manske
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