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Mourning Unmet Needs (The Art of Letting Go)

were not being lived out I took responsibility for them and gave myself empathy, support, consideration, understanding, cooperation and respect. This is what I would call self-empathy or self-connection. I walked away from resentment and held my needs with tenderness. I then startied brainstorming ideas and strategies for meeting these needs. What I came up with surprised me. For instance, I...
Clarifying the Confusion About Responsibility for Others' Feelings

wide range of emotions to the same observation, depending on the story they tell themselves. This session supports growth in needs consciousness, emotional responsibility, and the power of self-connection. A powerful invitation to release guilt and embrace clarity around the true source of our feelings. Keywords: feelings interpretation self awareness responsibility observation Yoram Mosenzon...
The Lonely Trainer

Even before I turned twenty, I became a member of a spiritual cult group. There was an incredible amount of deep spiritual companionship present, belonging, love, beauty, and loads of spiritual experiences, expansions. And, at the same time, there was lack of transparency, lack of honesty, manipulation, strong hierarchy, abuse of power, sex and money, primarily by the spiritual leader himself…...
Four Types of Feedback

Trainer Tip Here are four different ways you may offer feedback, followed by the four ways you can hear any message: What's wrong? Destructive Criticism: Demeaning, depreciative, punitive intending to tear a person down. What's right? Constructive Criticism: Timely, sympathetic, supportive, explicit, instructive, problem-solving, intending to build the person up. Feedback by demonstration: We...
Clarifying Our Needs

Trainer Tip "It all starts with self-reflection. Then you can know and empathize more profoundly with someone else." —Shirley MacLaine We often find ourselves slipping into old behaviors that we would rather change. This is because we don’t have a new plan for responding to the same old situations. Let’s say you work with someone who talks much more than you enjoy. You might try to listen to...
Evaluating Ourselves with Compassion

Trainer Tip "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there." —Rumi Do you engage in negative self-talk? This can be a message you give yourself, such as “Well, that was stupid.” Or “I know better and I did it anyway!” Or “I am so fat.” Every time you criticize yourself, you cause yourself to feel shame and guilt, which promotes depression and...
How to Create Your Own Teaching Activities

Listen as Mary Mackenzie shares an eight step path to create your own NVC learning activities, based on your own NVC learning experience. In this session, Mary uses the value of requests and observations as teaching examples. 8 Easy Steps for Developing Teaching Activities Opening premise: Borrowing teaching exercises from other people can be fun and easy. However, when we develop our own...
Enriching Life

Trainer Tip What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. In Compassionate Communication, we believe that enriching life is the most satisfying motivation for our actions. If you are motivated by fear, guilt, blame or shame, your actions will usually be motivated by avoiding pain. The best way to...
Making The Evolutionary Leap

Shared story has been a way for groups to unite in opposition to a common enemy. But more divergent and virulent beliefs/stories swirl through the internet, facilitating people to polarize against one another. So notice when you're caught in a polarizing story; try shifting focus to observing your mind; somatic presence; underlying commonality; consciousness as universal need, energy, and...
Attending to Our Need for Love

Trainer Tip I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. —Groucho Marx Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where your need for love is not met. Perhaps your partner expresses his love by helping you come up with solutions for your problems, but all you really want is for him to listen to you. Or perhaps your cat, which you brought into your life to love, just vomited on your...