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Living the Self-in-Life

even in the most trying circumstances. Your ability to come openly to your pain in the natural open-heartedness of mourning will be deepened and strengthened. Meeting life with full vulnerability will also become increasingly available to your innermost self as we explore mutuality via inner – and outer – relational space experiences. You may experience: Augmented practices designed to help you...
Facilitating Connection

Expressing ourselves honestly is sometimes scary because we can't predict where the conversation will go after we've made ourselves vulnerable. This recording will demonstrate how the power of our honesty is enhanced by ending on a clear and present request. Doing so supports self-connection because we know what we want before we open our mouth, and also supports connection with the other...
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...
The Compass - Awakening to the Journey from You to Yourself

The Compass – Arnina Kashtan's in-depth transformational process – is specifically designed to support you in reliably deepening your understanding of your own and others' conditioning, and finding ways to reclaim your full connection with yourself. Not only does this process enable you to heal the wearying, unending struggle between you and yourself, it also helps you get "unstuck" so you can...
Living the Self-in-Life

My Compassion has Become My Teacher During this very moving session, you'll dive into Robert's exercises for supporting connection to your true self as opposed to your conditioned self. You'll: Observe your thinking; Get in touch with your soul's longing; Notice the obstacles and beliefs that arise; and Bring compassion to your inner experience. Keywords: beauty of the needs consciousness core...
Peace Starts At Home

response to requests 2. The Inner Building Blocks of Creating Peace: a. Living in Peace with Unmet Needs b. Releasing attachment and stepping into the unknown c. Overcoming fear and embracing vulnerability d. Opening hearts and transforming judgments 3. From Conflict to Dilemma: a. Staying in connection when conflict arises b. Transcending resentment and surfacing invisible contracts c. Saying...
Naturalizing NVC Language

out of their comfort zone. The focus of this session is expressing what’s alive in you as a means to convey empathic understanding to others. Such expression is more familiar and places the vulnerability in our court rather than the other person’s, thus creating greater comfort. Session 7: From Practice to Integration Often, despite our intention to use NVC for connection, we create situations...
The Future of Love

enhancing intimacy “In the future, we will hold jealousy as a call for support, not a proof of love. A love where no one sacrifices to another, but grace is evoked though the sharing of deep vulnerability.” By Kelly Bryson. Keywords: Kelly Bryson love trust intimacy relationships relationship building connection empathy freedom intuition
Key Differentiations in Nonviolent Communication

vs. Habitual Life-connected vs. Life-alienated Protective vs. Punitive use of force Interdependence vs. Dependence Self-discipline vs. Obedience Respect for Authority vs. Fear of Authority Vulnerability vs. Weakness Power with vs. Power over Value judgment vs. Moralistic judgment Being giraffe vs. Doing giraffe Giraffe honesty vs. Jackal honesty Idiomatic vs. Classical giraffe Observation vs....
Group Feedback

and consciousness, you don't have the power to hurt anyone. Their hurt comes from how they hear you. This is where the giraffe dance takes place — a dance of connection, sharing honesty, vulnerability and listening with compassion and empathy. —Sylvia Haskvitz, Tucson, Arizona, USA Keywords: empathy expression feelings honesty needs observation Practice Group requests blame compassion connection...