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The Key to Getting Your Needs Met

prevents resentment, and promotes mutual understanding. Here are three key skills to making effective requests and three types of requests. Read this article Keywords: request conflict demand Alan Seid
Mind Matters Most And You Reap What You Sow

of what’s happening in our minds. If we want certain outcomes, it helps to be mindful of the intentions we plant within ourselves. Read this article Keywords: intention mindfulness reactivity Alan Seid
Connection Before Solution: Building Stronger Relationships

Alan Rafael Seid explores the principle of connection before solution, emphasizing the importance of understanding each other's needs before jumping to fix a problem. He explains how rushing to solutions can lead to resentment, resistance, or ineffective outcomes, while slowing down to create mutual understanding builds trust and leads to more durable resolutions. Alan highlights the deeper...
Five Communication Guidelines For Change Agents

connection that’s crucial for a win-win strategy to come about. This may take several conversations. Read this article Keywords: social change activism communication decision maker negotiation Alan Seid
Sex Is The Least Private Act

into thinking that what you do behind closed doors has no effect. That’s why my late mentor, Joe Dominguez, used to say: “sex is the least private act.” Keywords: sex privacy personal growth Alan Seid
The Purpose Of Gratitude

to life, and without this feedback, we can be tempted in certain situations to stop trying. Who wants to put energy into something that seems to bear no fruit? Keywords: gratitude celebration Alan Seid
You Suck At Conflict

Conflict is not bad. It is an opportunity for increased connection, intimacy, joy, and creative win-win solutions. So please, learn to get good at doing conflict. Keywords: conflict avoidant Alan Seid
Keep It Real, Warts and All

I really am, warts and all. Keywords: people pleasing being nice anxious attachment authenticity self connection self acceptance self awareness self love vulnerability connection relationship Alan Seid
Heaven And Hell

they spent their entire time extending food to one another. On Earth, this is the difference between Heaven and Hell. Keywords: collaboration win-win competition interdependence NVC spirit Alan Seid
Another False Dichotomy

beating yourself up for being “selfish”? It’s time to stop. Just be self-full. Include and care for others’ needs AND your needs. Keywords: selfish selfless distinction interdependence win-win Alan Seid
The Long-Short Way, And The Short-Long Way

the time because we care about the outcome. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~Abraham Lincoln Keywords: ease efficient preparation Alan Seid
The Highest Leverage For Effective Meetings

on your present need and request. If everybody did this, we’d save ourselves tons of frustration from unproductive meeting time. Keywords: meetings clarity communication workplace preparation Alan Seid
The Big Why

If you had that, then what would you have? If you had that, what would that give you? These two questions will take you deeper and deeper to universal human needs. Try it. Keywords: needs Alan Seid
How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects Men, Fishbowl Discussion

Join Alan Seid for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect men. What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people – seated in circle – who're having a conversation in full view of a larger group of listeners. It provides a creative way of including "the public" in a small group discussion. Although largely...
Financial Integrity

of the audio, we encourage you to enjoy the remaining sections by clicking one of the links below: Keywords: consciousness core beliefs strategies intention money issues personal growth values Alan Seid
Deepen Your NVC with Ken Wilber's Integral Framework

every field of knowledge and every world philosophy to fit together in a unifying framework. How NVC “integrates” into this larger framework is a topic for much fun, discussion and illumination. Alan Seid is a seasoned CNVC Certified Trainer who has been studying NVC for 15 years. He has been a student of Integral Theory for 10 years, and has offered numerous workshops on each topic. This...
Going Deep

your mother to stop yelling at you. The questions above, if done in a sincere spirit of curiosity and inquiry, will take you and others to deeper and deeper values and Universal Human Needs. --Alan Seid Keywords: exercises/practices needs strategies values interests positions wants desires universal human needs motivations Alan Seid
NVC and Social Change

one another’s well-being. We’ve also heard that NVC is a powerful ally for creating social change. How does this work? How do we define social change? In this recording, CNVC Certified Trainer, Alan Seid explores what is meant by social change in NVC. You will also hear stories describing specific examples of how NVC is used in social change situations. If you’re curious about how NVC can...