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Groups Tip Series: Working with Frequent Interruptions

How can I deal with someone who is constantly interrupting and derailing our process? Keywords: conflict resolution groups collaboration Group Facilitation Tips interrupting facilitation facilitator sharing NVC teaching NVC teaching NVC groups disrupting Miki Kashtan
Connected Decision Making

If you're stuck when making a decision with someone, it's likely that you've skipped hearing and connecting to one another's needs. Slow down and listen for what's really important underneath the content. This allows you to make decisions that are more fulfilling and harmonious. Read this article Keywords: practice decision problem solving finances relationship money argumen conflict resolution...
Getting Stuck Arguments Unstuck

Some arguments stay stuck because each person thinks it's about the content of the argument, rather than the needs each person is attempting to protect. When the needs get attached to the strategies a "no way out" scenario gets created. Instead, fully step into one another's worlds and connect to the feelings and needs behind the strategy each party is putting forth. Read on for six elements to...
NVC Life Hacks 32

Mediation is a great skill to have whether it's for your personal relationships or in the workplace. We look at four different techniques and their benefits in a role-play between two neighbours discussing a dispute. Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren mediation role play conflict resolution
NVC Life Hacks 33

Mediation is a great skill to have whether it's for your personal relationships or in the workplace. We look at four different techniques and their benefits in a role-play that takes place in an informal, unorganised setting. Keywords: Trainer Tip Shantigarbha Warren Beginner Skill Level mediation conflict resolution role play relationships workplace
Keys To Building Trust After Broken Agreements

Building trust involves each person taking responsibility for what they want by identifying their needs, and making specific and doable requests that open a negotiation. Identify in what contexts you already have trust, what you want to be able to trust, and how you may be blocking or cultivating that trust. Making requests for specific actions of what to do differently can also help. Read this...
Differentiating Needs from Strategies

Trainer Tip "Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy" ——Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes it is hard to remember that needs are universal and strategies are specific. Strategies are the methods we use to get our needs met. When we focus on needs, our world can feel abundant with possibility. When we focus on a particular strategy, our world can feel scarce. Conflicts arise when...
Hearing The Yes Behind The No

Trainer Tip "Why do you walk through the field in gloves When the grass is soft as the breasts of doves And shivering sweet to the touch?" —Frances Comford It is often easy for us to hear rejection when someone says “no” to us. If we focus on the rejection, we may feel hurt and fail to take the time to understand what is going on with them. However, if we focus on their feelings and needs, we...
Getting Beyond Our Judgments So We May Connect

Trainer Tip He who can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. —George Herbert Any time we enter a conversation harboring ill will or judgment about the other person, we are part of the problem. How can we truly connect with another if we simultaneously think he is bad, wrong, or evil? It is important to remember that all actions are attempts to meet needs. People...
I See the Spirit in You

Trainer Tip The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth; he has God in himself, for God is love. —Felicité Robert de Lamennais When we see others as spiritual beings, we connect to their divine energy. I have believed this for years. But for many of those years, I would forget the Spirit in another person if we were in conflict. To know that a person is a spiritual being, but then...