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Transforming Needs Into Compassionate Connection

of appreciation itself, rather than focusing on its absence, we cultivate a more compassionate and fulfilling experience. This practice is based on the work of Living Compassion, shared by Robert Gonzales, focusing on the beauty of needs and the living energy of needs Keywords: Iris Bawidamann captions searchable transcript beauty of the needs Robert Gonzales needs appreciation demands self blame
Living the Self-in-Life

together into our own authentic Life force: the essential living energy that permeates all of our lives. Your journey will begin at the center: with the divine / life force, or soul force. Robert Gonzales shares how this fundamental life energy is the tender expression of your inner being, or soul. It unfolds through the heart as your deepest longings, which manifest themselves in all forms of...
The Embodied Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication

processes that support a consciousness of the “Beauty of Needs” Walking Meditation on The Beauty of Needs The Daily Practice of Living in the Embodied Spirituality of NVC Keywords: Robert Gonzales NVC workshop Introduction to NVC meditation beauty of the needs spirituality consciousness NVC consciousness core beliefs presence jackal
Embracing Impermanence

Robert Gonzales shares how embracing impermanence involves continually growing in his ability to accept unmet needs, to be comfortable with discomfort and unwanted experiences. Robert shares a quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about letting it rain, emphasizing the simplicity and wisdom in accepting life's experiences as they come. Keywords: Robert Gonzales impermanence embracing impermanence...
In Robert's Words, A Journey of Gratitude

A Worldwide Field of Compassion (8 Session Course) The Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication (6 Session Course) Living Compassion in an Ever-Changing World (10 Session Course) Keywords: Robert Gonzales applying NVC NVC consciousness acceptance awareness body awareness compassion consciousness empathic presence life purpose openness release self acceptance spiritual growth transformation...
Living Compassion in an Ever-Changing World

Access this complete 10 session course Living Compassion in an Ever-Changing World is the last course that Robert Gonzales offered before his passing in November of 2021. It is an intermediate course whose purpose is to deepen our conscious connection to our own vital life force, to develop skills that support inner healing, and to grow and strengthen daily practices that allow us to truly live...
The Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication

Force Needs consciousness: Fullness vs. deficiency Transforming fear, anger, and other primary reactive states Restoring our wholeness through self-compassion Developing Presence Keywords: Robert Gonzales applying NVC exercises/practices integrating NVC multisession course NVC consciousness All Skill Levels acceptance awareness compassion consciousness empathic presence emotions forgiveness...
Living Compassion in Challenging Times

to model Living Compassion in action. Practice: Opportunities to practice a process and receive support. Resources: Readings, articles, and handouts will be shared throughout the program. Robert Gonzales will present practices and processes he has developed in 30+ years of teaching Nonviolent Communication, as well as from his personal self-exploration into how to live with compassion...
A Worldwide Field of Compassion

Access this complete 8 session course The vision of this program is to live in this field/space in order to strengthen, support, and inspire each other. In this space, we bring a caring and loving energy into a field of living compassion within ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. We are reminded that every expression and every act of compassion and kindness restores our wholeness...
The Nature of Your Reactions

inner peace. Keywords: reactivity reaction reactive jackal thinking jackal talk presence unconditional self acceptance attention awareness self responsibility self connection self acceptance Robert Gonzales
Unconditional Self-Acceptance

pain, tension, contraction, lack of fulfillment, or unmet needs or values. Giving your often undesired experiences space can be a path to greater inner connection and peace. Keywords: Robert Gonzales self acceptance contraction unmet needs presence attention awareness self compassion self judgment inner peace unconditional self-acceptance
Practicing Unconditional Self-Acceptance When I Want Change

to our inner experience. Robert asks us to give our attention and spacious awareness to our own judgments, inner contractions, and other experiences we often regard as undesirable. Keywords: Robert Gonzales self acceptance presence transformation judgment attention self judgment awareness contraction spiritual growth unconditional self-acceptance self compassion
Exploring Your Connection to Life and to Your Life Purpose

Here are some questions to support you in exploring your connection to life, your life purpose. Here we briefly touch upon what blocks you, your gratitude, strengths, passions, and what you are committed to. Read this practice exercise Keywords: life purpose inner blocks Robert Gonzalez
Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning

Integrating a full living involves grief/mourning and gratitude. Here we'll more deeply integrate inner and outer dimensions of gratitude and grief. In any experience there's the outer aspect, an event that occurs in life. And there's the inner response to the outer event. When we judge the outer positively or negatively we're in tension or resistance to our experience. Here we'll explore a...
Exercise In Self Compassion

With this exercise you'll choose an experience you had with someone where your needs were not met. You'll work with the related feelings, judgements, values, and feeling the fullness of the need even though it was not met, plus any sadness that may arise. Read this practice exercise Keywords: self compassion disappointment mourning unmet needs loss Robert Gonzalez
Inner Space And Compassion

Here's guidance on how to approach your inner experience when triggered or stuck in a distressing life experience. Self-Compassion in life can be experienced as: "There is room for life experience in me. There is an open space for ‘what is’ to be fully present in my inner experience". This exercise is more about tracing your felt experience than verbalizing it. Read this practice exercise...
Integrating Inner And Outer

This exercise brings forth presence, awareness, and witnessing regarding what you observe. And also the inner form of experiencing: thinking, feeling, sensing, longing, and noticing any inner resistance. This exercise is designed to allow self-compassion to clear the inner space, and to help you feel it as a flow of energy, presence to the other, and bring in a more relaxed experience and more...
Exercise On Self Responsibility

Self responsibility is owning what's yours. It involves identifying your observations, evaluations, feelings, longings, and more. When we identify what's truly ours we are unlikely to mistake it as coming from outside of us. Self responsibility is not self blame. Without self responsibility, we project, blame and judge. Self-responsibility is central to clarity and full self-awareness. This...
Practice Tracking Various Living States of Being

Use this exercise to identify what state you're in at any moment, and as an exercise to grow capacity for self-awareness and self-compassion. Identify what happened, thoughts, sensations, feelings, longings, etc. Includes a table that outlines three states of being: Protective/Defensive, Vulnerability, Essence. Read this practice exercise Keywords: states of being self compassion self awareness...
Embodying Compassion Exercise

to breathe as you focus your attention. Simply allow whatever arises in your experience. {attachment:all} Keywords: exercises/practices compassion meditation presence awareness visualization Robert Gonzales