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A Path For Responding To Tragic Decisions

receive support, and notice your feelings show you certain values matter to you. From this sense of purpose you can find where you can be of most service. Read this practice exercise Keywords: anger social change injustice LaShelle Lowe-Charde Elia Lowe Charde
Why Do I love Restorative Circles?

Duke Duchscherer shares that Restorative Circles have the ability to transform relationships. Groups may start with feelings of worry, anxiety, fear, anger, and even hatred. The dialogue process supports a shift to more ease, connection, and trust. Keywords: restorative circle connection dialogue transformation trust Duke Duchscherer
MLK, Nonviolence, and Communication

and transforming what appears to not be love. How do we bring this spirit of nonviolence into our communication and conversations today, where on all sides of issues the other side can seem dangerous and wrong? Many around the world now are doing this, in myriad ways, as we meet the growing threats and challenges we face. The way I have found is to seek to hear and understand each other where we...
Radical Understanding In A Post-Truth World

become a common refrain to disregard and deny information that differs from what and who we already believe. At a deeper level, some believe the increasing flames of polarization, fragmentation, anger, conflict and mistrust between groups in society is being intentionally stoked and fanned by powerful actors behind the scenes. What is the real truth on one side is propaganda and misinformation...
Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis

who is observing and where they are observing from shapes what is noticed? How do we find as close to observational language as possible to describe patterns? Feelings: How do we account for the danger of experiencing and expressing certain feelings depending on where you are located? (e.g. Black women in the US can get backlash when expressing anger; all men can be ridiculed when expressing...
Reaching Critical Mass

This week as the U.S. population continues to be dangerously divided on who won the presidential election, and the surging pandemic takes its devastating toll, I have been more deeply than ever contemplating the question, how can empathic communication go further out into the world to help people and the planet? What came first were the words “critical mass,” in the sense of a tipping point. I...
Can Needs Be Harmful?

your panda relatives to eat. You are a few days old and every care is being given to ensure that you thrive. You are not aware of the fact, and neither are your parents, that your species is endangered. You are not aware of those who have been following your mother's pregnancy with great interest... nor that the news of your birth has spread around the world. In fact, you're on YouTube. Read...
Transforming Painful Patterns

add them, and let me know, so I can continue to refine and expand this tool to support other people. Five Thought Patterns All these patterns can lead to disconnection, and translate easily into anger, guilt, worry, depression, aggression and any of the behavior patterns below. Negative thoughts about the past, such as focusing on what we or others should have done Negative thoughts about the...
Why I'm Grieving the Loss of Both Israelis and Palestinians

can recognize it in others as well, and commit to reducing it. To create the conditions for peace begins with opening the heart to all we feel inside—including numbness, confusion, fear, pain, and anger. Some who fiercely support Israel may take issue with my empathy for the Palestinians, while some who fiercely support Palestine may take issue with my condemnation of terrorist violence in the...
Needs, the Third Component of Compassionate Communication

long-distances, I choose to fly, and I have also used Amtrak. The need in all these examples is transportation; my methods or strategies are a car, plane, and train. One of my sisters lived in a dangerous Seattle neighborhood once. She had a need for safety, so she befriended the gang members in her neighborhood. They could visit her and hang out in her house anytime they wanted. She never...