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Money, Value, and Our Choices

How much money to pay? And how much money to ask for? The supply and demand logic basically say that we ask for the most that “the market can absorb” and pay “the least that we can get away with.” We can instead, we can engage in experiments that focus on connecting to and satisfying needs. We can also engage with our varying degrees of access to resources within the existing economy and...
Nonviolent Communication Basics

Here are some very basic forms and distinctions of NVC. It covers the 4 D's, OFNR, some NVC distinctions, tips, quotes from Marshall Rosenberg, and "feelings and needs" lists, and more. As with any art, these rudiments necessarily must be learned, practiced, understood, embodied and then let go of so as not to become rote and block creativity.. Read this article Keywords: observation feeling...
How to Make Requests with Confidence

Before you make a request you can connect fully to a time when your need was met. Notice how your request feels and sounds different from this place of aliveness. Excitement about meeting a need implies confidence and trust about moving forward together. Offer an invitation to find strategies that work for both of you. Read this practice exercise Keywords: request demand collaboration LaShelle...
Create Mutuality Rather Than Keeping Score

Where do you feel desperation, resentment, anger about your partner's choices? What do you want to demand of them? Rather than looking for what they're suppose to do, look for your feelings and needs, how would you would respond if you trusted your needs could be met without your partner, and what you choose to do given what your partner offers and does not offer. Read this article Keywords:...
Exercise For Saying "No" And Staying Connected

Ever have a hard time saying "no" to someone, or feel obligated to say yes? Here's an exercise that can help you notice where you are placing yourself as someone who "has to" say yes; the needs in the other person making the request; what you want to say "yes" to (regarding your needs and theirs) by saying "no"; what prevents you from saying "yes"; plus your request and how you might express...
Find Space Between Needs And Strategies

Confidence, flexibility, creativity and equanimity may become more possible when you would like someone to meet a particular need, can trust that you can meet that need with someone else, and can accept a “no” to your requests. You can allow grief or disappointment to arise, and naturally turn towards a relationship in which those needs can be met. In some cases this may lead to the dissolution...
Basic NVC Overview, Teachings and Principles

Explore the core teachings and principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to foster collaboration, mutual respect, and to connect across differences. NVC emphasizes connecting through universal needs, honest expression, and compassionate listening—creating space for understanding, and meaningful human connection. Read this article Keywords: observation evaluation OFNR feelings needs request...
Set Your Intentions with Attention

Access this complete 3 session course At the end of the calendar year, many of us feel an old pressure to come up with New Year's resolutions This may be followed by internal demands along with our inevitable and life-alienating reactions to those demands. Sound familiar? Are you looking for something different? If your answer is yes, then join Kristin Masters for a delightful 3-session journey...
Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life

3: Transpecies Requests Building upon your sense of community and support in this class, we now turn to looking at how our relationships with other species consist of violence, oppression and demands. We realize that the human species harms to survive and that we have a long evolutionary history of being both prey and predator. We have also evolved to collaborate and treat others with...
Find Agency With “Falling Out of Love”

begin to require intention and effort. Unfortunately this is not always so easy. Once you are officially in a relationship, all you have ever learned about what it means to "be in a relationship" demands your attention and sometimes hijacks your clarity. You may find yourself having thoughts about what a good partner should or shouldn't do. You may compare yourself and your partner to standards...