NVC Resources on Love
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How to Ask for Space
Do you ever wish you could get a little more breathing room in an intimate relationship? From your perspective, they move in so close that you wish you had a snorkel so you could get a little air. The other person, on the other hand, is feeling hurt wanting more intimacy and is receiving your request for space as a form of rejection or lack of caring. You notice this conflict repeating itself...
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How to Express Gratitude and Appreciation in Intimate Relationships
Yoram Mosenzon shares how expressing specific and authentic appreciation can deepen connection in intimate relationships. He emphasizes the importance of making clear observations without judgment and connecting with the feelings and needs that arise from meaningful gestures. Yoram highlights how gratitude becomes a celebration of life, enriching relationships and fostering deeper...
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Self-Empathy Basics
Watch this video and feel as if you are actually present at the workshop! Mary Mackenzie demonstrates two exercises that will help you learn fast “on the run” self-empathy techniques. These practical techniques guide you toward noticing your physical sensations, feelings and needs. The two fast “on the run” self-empathy techniques covered in this video are: “I love it when (insert need) ….”...
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Transforming Drama in Congregations
Developing interpersonal relationship skills in congregations is integral to working with the conflicts that arise. NVC helps us turn toward conflict and connect us to life so we can sit with unmet needs, grow the trust to accept our humanity and shift our behaviour so that it reflects trust, love, and interconnectedness. These principles can be applied to any spiritual community. Keywords:...
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7 Transformative Conversations
Mukti Jarvis shares seven types of conversations vital to healthy, flourishing intimate relationships. These conversations include: Our Bright Future Drama Dialogue Healing Our Raw Spots Making Amends Responsiveness Touch & Sex Keeping Love Alive Keywords: relationships dialogue intimacy healing sex amends Mukti Jarvis Linda Rysenbry
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Mourning Unmet Needs (The Art of Letting Go)
"Hold on to your anger and use it as compost for your garden." - Thich Nhat Hanh Recently I was feeling very angry and resentful. I felt this way for a couple days. I have learned that when I judge others it only contributes to anger and resentment. Despite knowing this, I kept judging this particular person. By doing this I only added more drama to the story I was creating in my mind. I...
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Dealing with Loss
When faced with someone’s grief for the world, how do you engage with them in a way that is informed? In this session, Kristin suggests exploring what they might be grieving… what they’re afraid of losing… and what it is that they love. Keywords: loss grief mourning connection sadness support empathy mourning inner work healing suffering judgment Kristin Masters
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Your Brain's Left Hemisphere and NVC
Sarah Peyton explains how your brain's left hemisphere excels at pattern making. NVC can help integrate both hemispheres, enabling you to use the left side's love of patterns for abstract thinking. Keywords: hierarchy neurobiology neuroscience dialogue connection needs honesty feelings expression empathy Sarah Peyton
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Anger’s Two Kinds of Reactivity
There's reactive anger - the sudden outbursts of words, temper or action that create a nervous system response in another. And then there's the anger that's a reaction to someone's anger -- a nervous system startle-response. Instead of either of these, we can learn to heal with empathy, look for unequal power dynamics, take responsibility to make repairs, and shift into the clean, life-serving,...
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Finding Your Way Through Hard Times
What have you lost this year during this COVID-19 pandemic? Are you grieving too? Recognition of loss can helped contextualize our emotions. When we can meet grief with understanding, patience and tenderness, when we create space to mourn our losses -- and to begin to process, heal and metabolize loss. This can help us make sense of change and orient to a new reality. Grief is a longing for...
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