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Grounded Responses for Challenging Comments

When someone responds with painful sarcasm, criticism, or dismissal you can respond with empathy, or with clarity about your intention, need and request. If you're unable to do this, later you can privately write what they said, identify the feelings and needs of both of you, then write possible responses. This can help you remember to stay with your intention and what’s true for you without...
Responding to a Painful Comment

How do you carry on a conversation when someone’s comment has had an impact on you? And what happens when two intentions clash because of different perspectives? Here’s Roxy’s powerful, common sense approach. Keywords: Roxy Manning pain painful impact intentions difficult conversations personal growth triggered
Connecting with Spiritual Clarity

We can cultivate spiritual clarity through bringing attention to our intentions, mourning, gratitude, and the dynamic flow of feelings and needs. This can bring more autonomy, choice and liberate the energy of connection and contribution. We can also awaken our hearts to see the reality that our well-being is mutually interdependent. Read on for more. Read this article Keywords: spiritual...
How to Interrupt

pause, go inside and connect with your own feelings and needs. Create room to experience your feelings fully, then connect them to whatever precious needs are in your awareness. 2. Clarify your Intention: Before interrupting the other person, get clear about why you would do so. Remember the intention of Nonviolent Communication is to create a connection with others. If you notice your objective...
Embracing Jackal Thoughts

like to address. I would like to start by saying that I don't see all thoughts as jackal. In fact, I don't think that anything IS or ISN'T jackal in any simple way. I am more interested in the intention and quality of consciousness than in the form that something takes. For a very simple example, all that I am writing here is nothing but thoughts, and yet I don't think of what I am writing here...
Greeting the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart

King, Faye Landey, Liv Larsson, and Rita Herzog – as we take a look at what disrupts our joy during the holidays… and discuss the delicious possibilities that abound when we declare our intention to “Greet the Holidays with an Open, Joyful Heart.” Keywords: presence strategies connection dialogue inspiration intention listening values conflict resolution families Family Conflict family...
The Zero Step

group a lesson he called “The Zero Step”. Mel started the presentation by writing the numbers 1 through 4 on the whiteboard: Read this article {attachment:all} Keywords: attachment to outcome intention zero step intention to connect connection openness to outcome how to correcting classical NVC attachment surrender expectations presence openness letting go Jim Manske
Four Questions to Ask Yourself Before Important Conversations

What's my intention? What needs am I trying to meet? What do I want the other person to know or understand? How can I say it in a way they are most likely to hear? These are four questions we can use in preparation for an important conversation. Read on for more on this, plus four accompanying practices. Read this article This article was originally published on Oren's Website:...
Two Basics That Support Conflict Resolution

Connecting, with yourself and with the other person, is foundational to care and creativity. Before dialogue connect with your intention and needs for being with grief, fear or pain, and empathy. Dialogue when you're both rested, fed, and have the spaciousness. Start with expressing care and a desire to find mutually satisfying solutions. To deepen connection you might repeat what you hear and...
The NVC Tree Of Life

This one page colour handout illustrates the focus options or intention options for connection: empathy (verbal and non-verbal), self expression, and self connection (opening our heart to self and/or others). It also offers some suggestions for how to say these things to self and others. Read this article Keywords: intention connection dialogue NVC tree of life Inbal Kashtan