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Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness

Jim leads a self-connection exercise focused on how our lives are interwoven with people we love, acquaintances, people unknown to us, and even those who have come before us or will come after us. Keywords: consciousness exercises/practices presence intention self talk relationships self connection community interdependence belonging Jim and Jori Manske Jim Manske Jori Manske
Self-Connection Exercise

Join Jim Manske as he leads you through a self-connection exercise to guide you toward welcoming whatever enters into your awareness. Keywords: exercises/practices feelings needs observation presence requests self empathy connection personal growth self compassion mediation self connection awareness Jim and Jori Manske Jim Manske Jori Manske
From Self-Connection to Self-Expression

Yoram Mosenzon discusses judgmental dialogue and its hidden aim to meet needs. This often creates distance instead of fostering connection. Yoram introduces a self-connection exercise to improve the chances of dialogue becoming more enriching and life-serving. Keywords: exercises/practices judgment self connection criticism jackal show jackal thinking self expression Yoram Mosenzon
Pause Difficult Conversations with Skill and Self-Connection

Oren Jay Sofer explains how we can stay grounded and maintain choice during overwhelming or emotionally charged conversations. He highlights the importance of presence—feeling our feet, noticing our breath, and expanding our awareness—to counter the fight-or-flight response and self-regulate. Oren also teaches a simple three-part structure for pausing a conversation without damaging the...
Self-Connection Meditation

Stephanie Bachmann Mattei leads you through an 8 minute meditation designed to develop a more integrated body and feelings/needs awareness. Keywords: meditation self connection presence needs feelings Stephanie Bachmann Mattei
Working With No To Deepen Self-Connection

Use this exercise to stay in dialogue and connect to needs while facing a “no”. Identify a situation where you have low confidence that you'll get your needs met, and it'll be hard hearing a “no” to your request. Explore your response to the “no” by working with feelings, needs, request and alternate strategies. Thus you can work towards meeting your needs while also releasing the idea that...
Staying Self-Connected in a Challenging Dialogue

When we're judging we're less able to access what we care about and what we could do about the situation. Instead, create more internal space, self connection and agency starting with connecting to your feelings and needs; then feel your grief or disappointment; followed by getting curious about the other party's needs and context -- and then based on collective needs and the long term effects...
Connecting with Ourselves

True inner freedom arises from self-connection. Without self-connection, we're mostly acting from habits, and those habits do not necessarily attend to our own needs. Here's a practice you can explore in your daily life to deepen your relationship with yourself, and experience true choice and inner freedom. Read this article Keywords: choice freedom self connection habits self sabotage practice...
Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

that NVC practice is based on. Many traditions share these assumptions; NVC gives us concrete, powerful tools for putting them into practice. When we live based on these assumptions, self-connection and connection with others become increasingly possible and easy. All human beings share the same needs: We all have the same needs, although the strategies we use to meet these needs may differ....
Deescalate Yourself:

our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to self-connection, empathy, and choice. Through accessible tools drawn from both personal experience and frontline work, you’ll learn how to navigate emotional overwhelm, honor your inner life, and move toward...