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How to Make Requests with Confidence

Before you make a request you can connect fully to a time when your need was met. Notice how your request feels and sounds different from this place of aliveness. Excitement about meeting a need implies confidence and trust about moving forward together. Offer an invitation to find strategies that work for both of you. Read this practice exercise Keywords: request demand collaboration LaShelle...
Navigating Individual Requests That Divert From Your Group's Purpose

Mary illustrates how we can get diverted from our group's purpose by the needs of a single indvidual in the group, especially requests for prolonged empathy. Listen to Mary reframe these scenarios and offer three helpful tips for handling these situations. Keywords: Group Facilitation Tips groups listening facilitation facilitator sharing NVC facilitate teaching NVC teaching NVC groups NVC...
Cradle of Compassion (Connecting with Request Energy)

Here are two practices for connecting with "request energy". One of them helps us practice in the moment (7 steps). The other one helps us connect to ourselves (11 steps). Read this article Keywords: cradle of compassion request self connection practice Jim and Jori Manske Jim Manske Jori Manske
Reframing OFNR (Observation, Feelings, Needs, and Requests) for the Workplace

Listen in as Dian presents the Four Steps of Collaborative Communication using everyday words you might hear at work: What is happening / what are you seeing or hearing? What is the impact internally for the people involved? What is driving the situation at a core level? and What will move the situation forward? Keywords: expression honesty presence strategies connection dialogue intention...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 2

There are two types of requests in the practice of Nonviolent Communication: Action Requests and Connection Requests. Both are important when working through conflict or difficult situations and for building connection. As its name suggests, an action request includes a very specific action that someone can perform to meet a need. For example, you might have needs for connection and peace of...
Confirmation and Feedback Requests

what you want before speaking is essential for clear, meaningful interactions. This snippet from their eight session course, 9 Skills for Navigating Conflict, explores how to make "confirmation requests" to ensure you're understood—whether you're navigating a tough conversation or simply ordering pizza! When clarity, empathy, and connection matter most, asking for feedback is key. Tune in to...
Can NVC Be Learned Without Learning Observation, Feeling, Need and Request?

In this enlightening Trainer Conversation, three veteran CNVC Certified Trainers discuss whether NVC can be learned without first learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as the trainers grapple with the question, eventually covering a wide-range of topics including the spirituality and true essence of NVC. Keywords: consciousness feelings...
Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request

structured around how this process can be used to mediate a conflict conversation. Keywords: intensity vulnerability authenticity mediation conflict resolution listening self empathy requests presence observation needs jackal show feelings empathy OFNR conflict conversation relationships John Kinyon
Observation, Feelings, Needs, and Requests (OFNR) Communication Components

angry because I’m thinking that....” More deeply and powerfully, we can see our feelings ultimately caused by our needs, e.g. “I feel angry because of the need for respect.” Request vs. Demand Requests flow from connection with universal needs, and invite the freedom to say “no.” It is wanting the response to come from true willingness, from the heart and the desire to contribute, from...
Foundational NVC Skills

Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC, suggests that there are two requests that are the most transformative to relationships, (1) What’s alive in both of us? and (2) What would make life more wonderful for both of us? This telecourse recording, with John Kinyon, offers an easy-to-digest overview of how carefully crafted requests inspire joyful relationships. Specifically, this telecourse...