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The Vortex of Submission

focuses on a specific aspect of the Vortex and how to liberate yourself from it. This 9-session telecourse recording offers the understanding and tools for: making choices in harmony with your values balancing autonomy and interdependence healing resentments sustaining healthy relationships nurturing connection and trust in all types of relationships Keywords: consciousness exercises/practices...
Fearless Loving and Living

and Angst Finding and sustaining your Fearless Home Frequency Keywords: Kelly Bryson consciousness core beliefs exercises/practices expression honesty connection dialogue inspiration love trust values relationships honest expression truth intimacy transparency fear
Transforming Power Relations

Nonviolent Communication provides specific tools to empower ourselves and others to live more in line with our values and deeper needs. When we do that, we become more effective in relating to ourselves, other faculty, and staff, and we can contribute more to students’ ability to feel connected and energized. “NVC is wonderful and I can see how much it can enhance my personal life,” said...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 12

been painful events related to this need. Sometimes sadness needs to be fully felt before connecting to the living energy of the need. Often, when grieving is embraced and connected to needs and values, it carries us right into our wholeness and the living energy of those needs. Keywords: living energy of needs needs needy wholeness universal human needs Eric Bowers
Defusing Anger

Trainer Tip Hatred is a feeling, which leads to the extinction of values. —José Ortega y Gasset Many of us are afraid of our anger because we haven’t learned how to express it in a way that brings relief or that helps us meet our needs in the situation. Consider someone who calls people names in a rage, or hits another person, or walks off slamming the doors behind him. All of these are methods...
Forgiving Ourselves

our actions. It’s more about simply connecting with what our needs were. In this example, our need might be for a certain texture or flavor in our breakfast. Or maybe it’s a need related to values; we don’t want to waste the food we prepared. Once we connect to these needs, it is amazing how much relief we can feel just from knowing that we were trying to meet them. Then we can acknowledge our...
Mediating Conflicts

his image.” “Yes, thank you.” Connecting to everyone’s needs can take several hours. It is precious time, though, because once this quality of connection is established, creating strategies that values both their needs can come quickly. When using the Nonviolent Communication process, all parties will probably be satisfied with the results. I avoid the mistake of starting with solutions. I...
Empathy, a Potent Healer

know I spend a lot of time considering your needs, and then often neglecting my own. I guess we both want the same thing, balance and respect. You and I would both like to know that the other one values our needs too. Do you agree with that?” “Yeah, I guess.” “Would you be willing to talk about what we are both hoping for tonight, and maybe brainstorm ways we can both get what we want?” “Okay.”...
Interdependence vs. Dependence/Independence

freedom abroad while deserting it at home" —Edward R. Murrow Interdependence, in a Nonviolent Communication process, assumes that each person is autonomous. It refers to a consciousness that values everyone’s needs equally, recognizes that all people have choices and are responsible for their actions, and focuses on abundance rather than scarcity. Autonomous people come together because they...
Keeping The Focus On Ourselves

open, there is a better chance that the conversation will come to a mutually satisfying conclusion. When I’m not, we all have less opportunity for success. And, my focus needs to be on me and my values. The next time you prepare for a challenging conversation, look at your own feelings and needs first. Then attend the meeting open to creating results that work for everyone. Take a moment today...