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Owning Your Own Experience

Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share how we are conditioned to disconnect from our own feelings and how we can unlearn this habit to experience more full and rich inner lives. Practices for owning your own experience 1. Set aside about 10 minutes per day to journal, using this template, in order to support “owning your own emotional experience.” Begin with an intention to be gentle with yourself...
Using Role Plays for Sharing NVC

Access this complete 3 session course You've probably witnessed and participated in role plays that were powerful tools for inspiration, integration, or healing. You've likely also been in contexts where role plays fell flat, leaving people frustrated, confused, or disengaged. If you're sharing NVC with others – or are envisioning yourself going there in the future – you'll want to take this...
Winning the Blame Game

Jim and Jori Manske offer insight into blame, how it arises and how do we handle being blamed and our own blame of others. This session includes exercises that will help you transform blame into connection and resolution. This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference. Keywords: empathy exercises/practices feelings honesty observation presence strategies...
Responding To "Power Over" Interactions

Based on your observations of "power with" interactions choose a specific, do-able to practice so that you're prepared the next time you're in a power under/power over dynamic. Keep the practice simple to do in a difficult moment. Then reflect: identify what you did (internally or externally) or said that (de)escalated the dynamic. This practice requires noticing what went well, self...
Developing Discernment

Listen to Jim and Jori Manske share their understanding of discernment to gain clarity, insight, and wisdom for making life-serving distinctions and choices. Discernment Exercise: Using the "Four Choices" for Self-Empathy Once each day, write down a message you found difficult to hear... Imagine receiving the message and then internally responding with each of these choices: 1. Judgmental...
The Four D's of Disconnection

The Four D's of Disconnection Inspired by the work of Marshall Rosenberg and Lucy Leu Each of the 4 D's is a tragic expression of an unmet need. CategoryMeaningBehavior/ExampleForm DIAGNOSIS Who is what? Judging, labeling, criticizing "You are lazy and only care about yourself!" You are ____________. DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY Who is to blame? Denial of choice, blaming "I have to do what the boss...
Thank You: Finding the Gift in Everything That Happens

Jim and Jori Manske share strategies for employing gratitude to create more joy in life, jettisoning the fear of asking for what you want, and welcoming feedback no matter how it is delivered. Try this thought experiment exercise designed to: Train yourself to become aware of the presence of conflict Engage in a perspective broader than your habitual reactive patterns Engage your curiosity to...
Going Deep

I use the exercise below in many of my Nonviolent Communication (NVC) workshops. I call it "Peeling the Layers of the Onion." It illustrates a process for uncovering the Universal Human Needs — the deeper motivations — that underlie words and behaviors we may find disturbing or puzzling. Introduction: Needs vs Strategies One of the premises in NVC is that behind all behavior and expressions are...
Beyond Right and Wrong

In this vintage NVC video, Bridget Belgrave uses a Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate the key principles of Nonviolent Communication. Starting with needs at the center, Bridget builds a visual structure of the NVC process. The exercise is a three-step process: 1. Think of a time when someone was driving you a bit crazy 2. Write down one jackal statement 3. Identify the need that was hard to...
Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation

Access this complete 6 session course Do you ever feel frustrated about making decisions and getting things done, and long for a way to work together in connection AND achieve effective outcomes? Would you like to learn to facilitate effective and efficient meetings that nurture connection, equivalence and mutuality, while producing decisions that leave participants feeling energized and...