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Grief and Mourning for the World

As you witness injustices in the world, tension, anger, hopelessness, despair and more, may rise up in you. These feelings may lead to reactive thinking that doesn't contribute to healing nor wise action. Mourning is a universal need. If your culture pushed away grief and its emotional expression, you may have habits that block your access to the aliveness of grief. Read on for ways to give...
Mourning

In this session Jim and Jori Manske facilitate the exploration of the topic of Mourning using the three modes of NVC: self-empathy, honesty and empathic presence. Using an array of tools and exercises such as metaphors, somatic experience, connecting with needs, and breathing, Jim and Jori lead the group in a mourning practice and answer participants's questions such as what does mourning mean?...
Mourning Our Losses

Trainer Tip Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings. —Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Do you ever tell yourself that you shouldn’t feel bad because things could be worse, or because someone else is worse off, or that your situation just isn’t so bad that you need to carry on about it? Every time we tell ourselves that our sadness and grief...
Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning

Integrating a full living involves grief/mourning and gratitude. Here we'll more deeply integrate inner and outer dimensions of gratitude and grief. In any experience there's the outer aspect, an event that occurs in life. And there's the inner response to the outer event. When we judge the outer positively or negatively we're in tension or resistance to our experience. Here we'll explore a...
Mourning and Celebration

Mourning, grief and celebration is a way to connect with what we love and want to honor. In this trainer tip we learn that these three things can become a way for us to understand our emotions regarding our losses and appreciations. Read this trainer tip Keywords: mourning celebration grief gratitude love loss miss suppress death honor appreciate longing David Weinstock
Mourning Unmet Needs (The Art of Letting Go)

"Hold on to your anger and use it as compost for your garden." - Thich Nhat Hanh Recently I was feeling very angry and resentful. I felt this way for a couple days. I have learned that when I judge others it only contributes to anger and resentment. Despite knowing this, I kept judging this particular person. By doing this I only added more drama to the story I was creating in my mind. I...
Mourning Our Disappointments

Trainer Tip Mourning in Nonviolent Communication is the process of fully connecting with the unmet needs and feelings that are generated when we have been less than perfect. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. We mourn when we acknowledge the feelings and unmet needs associated with regret without any sense of guilt or shame. When we do this, we can see how our behavior has negatively affected our...
Mourning Our Way to Acceptance

When something happens that we don't like no amount of resentment nor magical thinking will make it disappear. Instead, we can mourn to dissolve our own resistance, resentment, and numbness of resignation. Mourning can allow us to feel pain with acceptance, and without needing to be okay with what happened. Acceptance can bring us to a place where even all the anguish in the world is fully,...
Celebrating Mourning

In a recent vacation in a Mexican village, I was surprised to find myself in the midst of a community in mourning. Two days before I came, a 21-year-old girl had died in a car accident. Everyone in the town knew her and was openly affected by her death. When I arrived from my long bus ride, I knew immediately something wasn't right. There were rows of portable chairs lining the street and...
Mourning and Celebration

Join Jori and Jim Manske to explore, learn and practice an NVC approach to mourning and celebration. This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly videoconference. Keywords: empathy exercises/practices feelings honesty mourning needs presence strategies compassion gratitude leadership honest expression self connection truth fun celebration authenticity fear curiosity self...