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Change Your Response to Conflict and Change Your Life

Access this complete 4 session course Maybe you… have challenging people in your life. are on the verge of a big decision or are avoiding a difficult conversation. feel trapped by recurring anger or pain that makes you do or say things you later regret. When you Mediate Your Life, you become more effective in everything you do. You find that you can handle any sort of conflict, including the...
Grounded Responses for Challenging Comments

When someone responds with painful sarcasm, criticism, or dismissal you can respond with empathy, or with clarity about your intention, need and request. If you're unable to do this, later you can privately write what they said, identify the feelings and needs of both of you, then write possible responses. This can help you remember to stay with your intention and what’s true for you without...
Choosing Your Response

Trainer Tip If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. —Buddha We have four choices of how to respond to someone, even when they say things that are hard to hear. If someone says to you, “You shouldn’t have done that, it was inappropriate,” consider your four options. The first one is to blame the speaker. “What do you know about what’s...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 7

the other person for how they have contributed to the conflict in the past, or of telling them how they should do things differently. The intention I suggest is one of collaboration—sharing responsibility and working together to create a more peaceful and supportive response to the conflict. Here are some suggestions for how to begin a dialogue about an ongoing conflict: “You know that challenge...
Feelings Are a Response to Our Met or Unmet Needs

Trainer Tip Our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as our particular needs and expectations in that moment. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. When I worked at a university, I had four to five appointments per day. Often, when someone was late for their appointment, I felt frustrated because I wanted my schedule to be predictable. Then I noticed that...
Climate Anxiety Is Not a Disease. It is a Normal Response to a World on Fire.

There are healers and therapists who see climate anxiety as a pathology. Instead, we can see it as an understandable reaction to the magnitude of the environmental problems that surround us. And we can see it as a subset of eco-anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease triggered by an awareness of the ecological threats facing the earth due to climate catastrophe. Read on for tips on...
Shaping the NVC Community Response to the Russia-Ukraine War

Hear first-hand how Ukrainian trainers are supporting their communities Discover practical ways the worldwide NVC community may support the Ukrainian people Listen as the trainers discuss the difference between NVC philosophy and NVC reality in crisis situations Begin to consider how we can mobilize the global NVC community “capital” when there is crisis
Tips for the Road Series Tip 2

co-worker could then be, “I notice you’re not replying to all the committee emails and are missing some of the meetings. I’m feeling frustrated because I have needs for reliability and shared responsibility of this project. What is going on for you hearing this from me?” Next, do your best to empathize, regardless of what the response is. Perhaps the response is, “Well I’ve been given Alberto’s...
Prepare for Love

and Relationship Boundaries. What are the different styles of attachment. Exploring our past relationship and attachment dynamics. Tools for creating healthy boundaries. Session 4 Taking responsibility for our past. What do we want to do about our attachment challenges? How do we reclaim our past? A deeper understanding of our past and of why we had the challenges we did, gives us more power to...
Embracing Leadership within Yourself

of your own inner life? In simplest terms, it’s about paying attention and noticing every time you’re tempted to see yourself as a victim. And it’s about choosing to embrace an attitude of responsibility and proactive engagement with life instead. Although you operate (much of the time) within conditions, circumstances, and systems that are not of your choosing, you are nonetheless free to...