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Can NVC Be Taught Without Using OFNR?

Miki Kashtan explains has developed a path to teaching NVC without relying on OFNR: Principle-based Teaching. The NVC Library contains Miki's complete online course for Principle-based Teaching. Get it here. This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library. Access the complete 7-part course Keywords: teaching NVC teaching...
Observation, Feelings, Needs, and Requests (OFNR) Communication Components

to come from true willingness, from the heart and the desire to contribute, from compassionate giving and receiving, rather than fear of punishment, guilt, shame, obligation, reward, etc. Keywords: OFNR nonviolent communication observation feeling need request faux feeling judgement evaluation demand distinctions John Kinyon
Reframing OFNR (Observation, Feelings, Needs, and Requests) for the Workplace

the situation at a core level? and What will move the situation forward? Keywords: expression honesty presence strategies connection dialogue intention listening workplace naturalizing NVC business OFNR first session free Dian Killian searchable transcript captions
Unpacking OFNR - Requests

Many believe it's only a true NVC request when we can ask for what we need without urgency or insistence. But what if we're the target of oppression and hate in a world with systemic inequality? Is it still nonviolence to abdicate power by allowing the person enacting harm to be the one to decide whether harm continues? The intensity of the need, degree of harm, and how chronically unmet the...
The NVC Model

The more we practice NVC by “rote” --going through OFNR (“Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests”) on automatic-- the more likely our NVC practice would lead to disconnection. The purpose of our NVC practice is to use this NVC "map" (OFNR) to support us in integrating the consciousness of the NVC (eg. operating with the intention to connect, collaborate, etc). Once we let the map drop away, we...
You Sound Like a Therapist!

Miki Kashtan explains how using OFNR or "Classic NVC" is for practice, not real life situations. This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library. Access the complete 7-part course Keywords: empathy expression honesty requests strategies connection OFNR naturalizing NVC authenticity Miki Kashtan
Contextualizing the NVC Process

Miki Kashtan explains how NVC's OFNR process is a tool to train our consciousness, rather than the "correct" way to speak. This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library. Access the complete 7-part course Keywords: honest expression expression honesty requests strategies connection OFNR naturalizing NVC authenticity...
NVC Flow

This single-page handout illustrates the steps to translating habitual judgments and actions into observations, feelings, needs, and requests (OFNR). See this handout Keywords: Handout flowchart illustration OFNR habit choice learning tool Peggy Smith
Nonviolent Communication Basics

Here are some very basic forms and distinctions of NVC. It covers the 4 D's, OFNR, some NVC distinctions, tips, quotes from Marshall Rosenberg, and "feelings and needs" lists, and more. As with any art, these rudiments necessarily must be learned, practiced, understood, embodied and then let go of so as not to become rote and block creativity.. Read this article Keywords: observation feeling...
The Tao of Empathy

John introduces his Self-Connection Exercise as a mindful way of coming to awareness via OFNR. Breath: immediately observable, a reminder to observe. Body: feeling the body, awareness of sensations. Needs: an experience of wholeness that expands awareness of the totality of experience. Listen. Keywords: John Kinyon empathy tao OFNR NVC basics NVC fundamentals exercises/practices exercises self...