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Simple Self-Empathy Tools to Help You Enjoy the Holidays

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Mary Mackenzie to learn a few of her tried-and-true simple Self-Empathy techniques, especially focused on the challenges of the holiday season. Keywords: consciousness feelings presence self empathy compassion connection gratitude healing personal growth self compassion self talk families relationships Family Conflict family communication self connection holidays...
Empathy

In this audio recording, Sylvia Haskvitz, veteran CNVC Certified Trainer, offers an in-depth discussion of the Nonviolent Communication process of empathy. Included is clarity about what empathy is and is not, information about the presence suggested to maintain empathic connection and the healing attributes of empathy, as well as: How to know when you have lost empathic connection The needs...
Embracing Empathy

Access this complete 4 session course This course recording will help you: Increase clarity of what empathy is and is not Increase self-compassion through self-empathy Provide hands-on practice in empathizing Explore “touching the dream” in empathy Find out what prevents you from giving empathy and learn ways to access choice in moments when you are triggered Enhance your skills for empathic...
Guidelines And Suggestions For Empathy Buddy Calls

Here are 10 tips for empathy buddy practice. It includes a handout identifying 15 non-empathy responses to step aside from when you practice. Read this article Keywords: empathy exercise practice handout non-empathy empathy buddy Eric Bowers
Laughter, IPNB and Empathy

Sometimes even a very skilled empathy practicitioner can go into offering a non-empathic response, even when asked for empathy. Why? One reason could be that our brains might be less receptive because of unseen forces that affect our brain and relationship with others. This article speaks to the deeper "why" and also to one thing we could do to turn it around... Read this article Keywords: self...
Empathy Hacking

and solutions that evaded us before. And with that restored vision, we're able to find new ways to engage with others that, just moments earlier, seemed impossible or a chore. You can become an empathy wizard—with anyone, in any situation, including the most challenging! Join Dian to explore key concepts and practices, including new ways of seeing and practicing NVC, and learn all this through...
Daily Self-Empathy Practice

Want to expand your needs vocabulary, and build your capacity to identify needs — even when you’ve been triggered? Check out Mary’s powerful teaching on Self-Empathy. Keywords: triggers expression self empowerment jackal talk jackal show understanding consciousness feelings needs presence self empathy compassion connection gratitude healing personal growth self compassion self talk...
Using an Anchor in Self-Empathy

the reactivity you are experiencing so that you can access a wiser discernment. It is simple, and can be done anytime and anywhere. Learn to direct your attention to develop your anchor in self-empathy. Read this article Keywords: anchor reactivity presence attention self empathy self compassion trigger responsibility choice practice LaShelle Lowe-Chardé Elia Lowe Charde
The Tao of Empathy

“The Chinese philosopher, Chuang-Tzu, stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: ‘…it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.'" --Excerpt from Nonviolent Communication: A...
Beyond the Limits of Empathy

Can empathy serve as a reliable guide to action? David Brooks, in his recent article “The Limits of Empathy,” suggests that empathy is no guarantee that caring action will take place. Participants in Milgram’s famous 1950s experiments willingly inflicted what they thought were near-lethal electric shocks despite suffering tremendously. Nazi executors early in the war wept while killing Jews....