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NVC & the Enneagram

of nine basic personality types. Studying the Enneagram can provide you with startling insights into relationship dynamics. Keywords: beauty of the needs feelings needs self empathy strategies compassion healing intention listening personal growth self compassion values relationships enneagram Jean Morrison Sylvia Haskvitz
Life Force and the Spirituality of Human Needs

Access this complete 6 session course This thought-provoking course will introduce you to The Land of Living Compassion. It’s designed to connect you more fully to your vital Life Force: the deep river of needs and values that flows through your innermost being. “There is a basic life current or impulse resonating in and through us as a yearning of the heart, this current and yearning manifests...
Finding Our True Self

and act accordingly. This trainer tip is an excerpt from Mary Mackenzie's book Peaceful Living, available from PuddleDancer Press. Keywords: consciousness feelings honesty needs self empathy compassion healing inner critic self compassion self talk values self connection authenticity vulnerability Mary Mackenzie
What Would Be Possible If I Loved Myself?

and Gradually begin to take responsibility for loving yourself! {attachment:all} Keywords: self love consciousness expression feelings honesty needs observation presence requests self empathy compassion connection inner critic listening personal growth self compassion self talk relationships jackal talk self connection Kathleen Macferran
Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life

Access this complete 6 session course Benefits of this course: Increase your capacity for self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance Reclaim your passion for living authentically with compassion, creativity, love and clarity Strengthen your ability to be naturally open-hearted towards pain and mourning Learn to meet life with vulnerability and strength, together Deepen your spiritual...
"Acting from the Zero Step" Roleplay

When Marshall designed NVC, he said that the purpose of it was to create a quality of connection, that inspires compassionate giving and receiving. The zero step is awakening or remembering your intention to support compassionate giving and receiving. Do this practice exercise to awaken this intention and to roleplay with it in your heart. Read this practice exercise Keywords: intention zero...
The Heart of Conflict

presence" with others who are in conflict. Topics include: Focusing on observations, feelings, needs and requests to support people in taking responsibility for their own experience, and being compassionate with themselves "Pulling by the ears" to help people hear the observations, feelings, needs and requests of the other parties in the dispute, and build compassion for each other Offering...
Releasing Our Judgments

—Edith Wharton An underlying theme in a Nonviolent Communication consciousness is to translate our judgments into feelings and needs. It is impossible to value other people’s needs and remain compassionate if we simultaneously harbor judgments. Releasing judgments, however, can feel like a monumental task. Or, in the beginning, it seemed that way for me. My mind seemed to lodge a judgment per...
The Zero Step

both yourself and other(s), wonder/interest, vulnerability(scary honesty) and empathy, which leads directly to connection requests and an openness to outcome. This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference. {attachment:all} Keywords: connection requests savoring scary honesty transformation self love curiosity fear authenticity celebration fun truth self...
Practice Tracking Various Living States of Being

Use this exercise to identify what state you're in at any moment, and as an exercise to grow capacity for self-awareness and self-compassion. Identify what happened, thoughts, sensations, feelings, longings, etc. Includes a table that outlines three states of being: Protective/Defensive, Vulnerability, Essence. Read this practice exercise Keywords: states of being self compassion self awareness...