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Naturalizing NVC Language

people find NVC expressions alienating, and finding ways to adapt our language to be responsive to others' experience. Our goal in each case is to change the language without losing track of the intentions of the practice. Session 2: Adapting Our Feelings and Needs Lists Many of us encounter people who are uncomfortable with any reference to feelings or needs, or people who are only comfortable...
Nonviolent Communication Circle of Life

inside this circle keeps us connected to ourselves and others while expressing our honesty or listening with empathy. When we live within this inner circle, there is balance and wholeness. Our intention is to serve and celebrate life. ~ MIDDLE CIRCLE ~ This circle represents NVC consciousness to value everyone’s needs and keep attention focused in the present moment. Our Intention is for...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 7

when you feel connected with that person and ask for their support with creating a more effective response to the conflict. It is absolutely crucial that you do not enter this dialogue with the intention of judging and blaming the other person for how they have contributed to the conflict in the past, or of telling them how they should do things differently. The intention I suggest is one of...
What to do When Racial Oppression and Privilege Collide

For over 10 years I ran a retreat to bring together members of the Global Majority* and white people. The intention was to help people from both groups learn ways they could show up and come together to combat racism. In one session, my co-trainer - a Latino man - shared a story about his experience of the police when he was a teenager. He and his brother had been stopped while driving home....
Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis

worldviews based on their culture; or those who don't know how to open themselves to us because of such differences? Feedback: How do we learn to hear impact without becoming defensive about intention when we have more power in a particular situation? How do we learn to offer feedback about impact without implying intention when we have less power in a particular situation? Keywords: Miki...
Discovering our Unconscious Biases

makes most of us believe in equality and yet sometimes our conviction in this same 'goodness' may make us blind to the reality of our own behavior. We are so convinced about the innocence of our intention that we seize to look at the impact of our behavior and thus our unconscious biases often go unexamined and unchallenged. Diversity, equity and inclusion work will only be of lip-service until...
How Our Behavior Impacts Our Children

in the world. Roxy Manning shares how the stories of parents contribute to this narrative. Roxy shares a personal story where she, in an attempt to highlight her son's intellectual gifts, unintentionally influenced him to believe he couldn't do things on his own and wasn't smart. The impact of stories like this on a child's self-perception is long-lasting. Roxy urges us to consider the...
Parenting and Anger

negative bias, the three motivation brain systems, memory and the spiraling of emotions. Meet your children’s intensity and gain more self-understanding, self- connection, and self-compassion by intentionally returning to presence and connection while working with ever increasing triggering statements. Transform a cluster of judgments and maintain an open heart while transforming your own enemy...
Another False Dichotomy

results in your own needs NOT being met? That’s why one of my favorite teachers, Marshall Rosenberg, came up with the word self-full. His invention of this term is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, intentionally humorous. But also totally right-on Do you ever find yourself bouncing between the extremes of being a selfless doormat for others and then resenting it, and beating yourself up for being...
Radical Understanding In A Post-Truth World

from what and who we already believe. At a deeper level, some believe the increasing flames of polarization, fragmentation, anger, conflict and mistrust between groups in society is being intentionally stoked and fanned by powerful actors behind the scenes. What is the real truth on one side is propaganda and misinformation on the other. More fundamentally, some information points people toward...