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How to Use Positive Language When Making Requests

say Would you be willing to write down your questions and I can get to them when I am done with this? Which version supports cooperation? Keywords: language of life requests children cooperation connection Yoram Mosenzon
Tools to Support Relational Attunement

shares Terry Real's grid as a tool for exploring a spectrum of emotional responses. We all have feelings and sometimes we get dysregulated or frozen up. How do you want to express and be in connection with other people? Can you attune to the relational context that you are in? Keywords: emotional regulation self regulation boundaries Yvette Erasmus
How does Parenting Impact Social Change?

understood climate change, and who knew that they had a role in keeping our planet liveable? Roxy Manning believes that how we parent can support the next generation in showing up with an innate connection to Social Change. Keywords: Roxy Manning Roxanne Manning social change climate change inclusion parenting NVC parenting
Does Communicating with Compassion Mean Letting go of our Judgements?

minds naturally form them. However, understanding inevitable judgments as indicators of our needs rather than truths can foster empathy. Expressing needs rather than judgments can better support connection and openness between one another. Read this article Keywords: judgments mindfulness empathy conflict Ranjitha Jeurkar
The Key to Getting Your Needs Met

relationships. In NVC, a true request differs from a demand by honoring both parties’ needs equally. Effective requests are specific, present, positive, and doable, and using them strengthens connection, prevents resentment, and promotes mutual understanding. Here are three key skills to making effective requests and three types of requests. Read this article Keywords: request conflict demand...
What is Empathy?

imposing our own perspective. Using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), she shows a simple yet profound process for expressing that we have genuinely heard another person. This approach helps deepen connection, bridge misunderstandings, and foster more compassionate relationships. Keywords: Mary Mackenzie empathy presence relationships
Interventions For Anger

Anger is a sign that you're resisting what's happening because you perceive an overwhelming threat, not trusting yourself to handle what's happening directly. Vulnerable feelings under anger are usually fear, hurt, or grief. Experiencing and expressing these feelings and connecting them to your needs, gives you access to more skill, insight, compassion, and wisdom. Read on for 3 questions to...
Mourning

In this session Jim and Jori Manske facilitate the exploration of the topic of Mourning using the three modes of NVC: self-empathy, honesty and empathic presence. Using an array of tools and exercises such as metaphors, somatic experience, connecting with needs, and breathing, Jim and Jori lead the group in a mourning practice and answer participants's questions such as what does mourning mean?...
Creating Real Challenges—Are you Game?

A challenge is an expansion of making a clear, positive doable request — and, when given, the person feels deeply seen by the challenger. A challenge isn't just about getting someone to take action on something important to them; it's a fierce form of empathy that supports people in connecting with their life force, and integrates it into their lives with action. A real challenge is tied to the...
Money, Value, and Our Choices

How much money to pay? And how much money to ask for? The supply and demand logic basically say that we ask for the most that “the market can absorb” and pay “the least that we can get away with.” We can instead, we can engage in experiments that focus on connecting to and satisfying needs. We can also engage with our varying degrees of access to resources within the existing economy and...