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The Living Energy of Needs

Have you experienced inauthenticity, confusion and flatness in expressing empathy with others? Do you long to create a more natural quality of energy as you practice empathy? Or are you a trainer looking for guidance to teach workshop participants a more natural flow in their empathy practice? In this interactive, pre-recorded training video and associated exercise, Susan Skye helps you unlearn...
Hidden Needs

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I am wondering if anyone can explain how to dig into the deeper needs that we may not be aware of at the time. I have been feeling frustrated and angry quite a bit lately over very simple things and also over the same thing again and again and cannot seem to dig to the root of these feelings. I am beginning to feel extremely frustrated so often lately and need some...
Considering the Needs of Other People

Trainer Tip If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. —Kate Halverson If you only focus on what you want, you are only halfway there. One of the basic principles of Nonviolent Communication is valuing everyone’s needs equally. Remember that needs are the underlying reasons why we do things. You might go to the store to pick up food to feed your family. Your need is to feed...
Bringing the Topic of a Conversation Back to Your Needs

Trainer Tip “I think patience is what love is,” he said, “because how could you love somebody without it?” —Jane Howard You pop into your colleague’s office to say hi and ask what time it is. He offers a lengthy dissertation on how clocks work. You think you could walk out the door without him noticing, but deep down, you respect him and you want to maintain a cordial relationship. On the other...
Needs Consciousness

Jim and Jori discuss the root of Nonviolent Communication, needs consciousness. Participate in guided processes to deepen your own needs consciousness. Keywords: consciousness presence needs needs not met NVC consciousness exercises/practices exercises universal human needs NVC basics Jim and Jori Manske Jim Manske Jori Manske
Can Needs Be Harmful?

Please join me in a visualization. Take a minute to imagine that you are a baby panda bear. You live in a zoo in an enclosure designed to resemble the panda bear's natural habitat in the wild. Bamboo, the mainstay of your diet, is flown in regularly for you and your panda relatives to eat. You are a few days old and every care is being given to ensure that you thrive. You are not aware of the...
The Heart of the Matter

Do you want to increase your capacity to identify and connect with feelings and needs? Would you like to enhance your ability to translate judgments? Join Miki for this deep dive into feelings and needs. In this course recording, you’ll learn skills and practices to: Identify your basic feeling “flavor” and increase your fluency with feeling words Recognize the needs hidden within hard-to-hear...
Some Ideas for Using the Feelings & Needs Cards

This guide features three activities that use feelings and needs cards: two verions of "Feelings and Needs Poker" and one for "Self-Empathy". Great for practicing alone, with a partner, or in a group. See this guide Find feelings cards here. Find needs cards here. Keywords: feelings cards needs cards activity self empathy empathy practice universal human needs Peggy Smith
Meeting Needs While Caretaking

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, Can all needs be met when illness limits the capacity of one person to meet the needs of her partner? —R.A.F., USA Trainer Answer Listen to the Audio above for the complete trainer answer. Keywords: empathy expression feelings honesty needs requests compassion connection dialogue inspiration listening love trust conflict resolution relationships peace partnership...
The Illusion of Conflicting Needs

This exercise will help you resolve situations in which you have two needs which seem to be in conflict with each other, transforming inner conflict into peace. Click the arrows above the slide to navigate through the course. Keywords: Illusion of Conflicting Needs self empowerment self connection inner peace inner work personal growth needs strategies strategy inner conflict inner confusion...