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Connection, Connection, Connection

simply grounding yourself with these questions and considering other strategies you could use to meet your needs, you will be more able to empathize with the other, and to express your feelings compassionately. As a result, you will enjoy deeper, more meaningful relationships, while reducing the frequency of judgments you have of yourself and others. Notice if you enter into a right fight today...
Change Your Thoughts to Change Your World

Trainer Tip "All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world." —Buddha If you want to live more compassionately, begin to notice the thoughts you have about yourself or other people. If you find yourself judging or criticizing, work on shifting your attitude. Several years ago, I became aware of my judgmental thoughts about others and made a commitment to shift...
Radical Understanding In A Post-Truth World

empathically receive and understand the other with even those most difficult to relate to beliefs, while at the same time knowing we can develop the strength to stand firmly, courageously, and compassionately in our own inner sense of truth? In those difficult absence-of-agreement moments, can I remind myself that I don’t need agreement, I need understanding? From empathic understanding we can...
The Four D's of Disconnection

demands exercises/practices requests blame jackal talk choice diagnosis deserve disconnection Introduction to NVC learning tool Jim Manske Jori Manske ©2008 peaceworks jim and jori manske radicalcompassion.com
Cultivating Gratitude

power and interdependence.) We suggest you write and savor 3 examples per day, and that you commit to the practice for at least 30 days. Please offer feedback after the 30 day practice to radicalcompassion@gmail.com Keywords: practices exercises Trainer Tip gratitude savoring Jim and Jori Manske Jim Manske Jori Manske
Angry and Taken Advantage of

situations doesn't mean denying what happened, your feelings, your needs, nor the behavior of others that didn't meet needs. It does mean reexamining those situations with the intention to compassionately look for your contribution and for clues to your hidden perceptual biases. Read on, to learn about about finding these clues, and more. Read this article Keywords: taken advantage of used self...
Integrating Inner And Outer

witnessing regarding what you observe. And also the inner form of experiencing: thinking, feeling, sensing, longing, and noticing any inner resistance. This exercise is designed to allow self-compassion to clear the inner space, and to help you feel it as a flow of energy, presence to the other, and bring in a more relaxed experience and more availability to vulnerability. Read this practice...
Let it RAIN!

the RAIN method—Recognize, Accept, Insight, Need—as a powerful practice to identify and transform destructive thought patterns, fostering connection and well-being. By cultivating self-compassion and clarifying unmet needs, you are guided to break free from cycles of resentment and embrace creativity, openness, and deeper intimacy in their lives. Read this article {attachment:all} Keywords:...
The Jackal as a Teacher

Trainer Tip Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. —Martin Luther King, Jr. In Compassionate Communication, we use the jackal as our metaphor for that part of us that is critical, judgmental, or self-righteous. We chose the jackal image because they walk low to the ground, tend to be more interested in satisfying themselves in the moment, and are less likely to...
Tragic Expressions of Unmet Needs

Trainer Tip Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. —Pubilius Syrus Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., who developed the Compassionate Communication process, uses the phrase “tragic expressions of unmet needs” to illustrate how often we do things that aren’t likely to meet our needs. The copy machine doesn’t work, so you hit it and scream at it. I’m guessing you’re frustrated...