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Differentiating Needs from Strategies

Differentiating Needs from Strategies

Differentiating Needs from Strategies

with Mary Mackenzie
Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • Read time: 2-3 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
Read time: 2-3 minutes
Trainer tip: When we focus on needs further possibilities are more likely to open up. When we focus on a particular strategy, our world can feel scarce and conflicts can arise. Resolution comes when we value everyone’s needs and seek mutually satisfying solutions. We can ask for support towards this outcome.
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Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

Foundational NVC Skills: Requests

with John Kinyon
Beginner Skill Level • Audio • 01:25 hours:minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Audio
01:25 hours:minutes
Marshall Rosenberg suggests that there are two requests that are the most transformative to relationships, (1) What’s alive in both of us? and (2) What would make life more wonderful for both of us? This telecourse recording offers an easy-to-digest overview of how carefully crafted requests inspire joyful relationships.
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Distinguishing Life-Serving Boundaries From Requests

Distinguishing Life-Serving Boundaries From Requests

Distinguishing Life-Serving Boundaries From Requests

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 3-5 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Article
Read time: 3-5 minutes
For effective dialogue clarify your needs, boundaries, and requests beforehand. Setting boundaries is telling someone what you're going to do in order to meet or protect needs for yourself or others. Whereas with requests, even if you have preferences, you still hold open curiosity about strategies to collaborate with others in meeting needs. Read on for more.
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Navigating Individual Requests That Divert From Your Group's Purpose

Navigating Individual Requests That Divert From Your Group's Purpose

Navigating Individual Requests That Divert From Your Group's Purpose

with Mary Mackenzie
Intermediate Skill Level • Video • 00:09 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Video
00:09 hours:minutes
Mary illustrates how we can get diverted from our group's purpose by the needs of a single indvidual in the group, especially requests for prolonged empathy. Listen to Mary reframe these scenarios and offer three helpful tips for handling these situations.
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Creating the Life You Want With Powerful Requests (Complete Course)

Creating the Life You Want With Powerful Requests (Complete Course)

Creating the Life You Want With Powerful Requests (Complete Course)

with Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 05:11 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
05:11 hours:minutes
In this telecourse recording, expert trainer Miki Kashtan will help you uncover what prevents you from asking for everything you want without fear. The class includes daily practices for ongoing skill building.
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Requests, the Fourth Component of Compassionate Communication

Requests, the Fourth Component of Compassionate Communication

Requests, the Fourth Component of Compassionate Communication

with Mary Mackenzie
Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • Read time: 1-2 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
Read time: 1-2 minutes
Trainer Tip: Making a request is critical because it can greatly lessen any tension in the situation. Plus, it can clarify for you and the people in your life what it would take to meet your need. Make at least one specific and doable request to someone today.
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Demands vs Requests

Demands vs Requests

Demands vs Requests

with Mary Mackenzie
Beginner Skill Level • Trainer Tip • Read time: 2-3 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Trainer Tip
Read time: 2-3 minutes
Trainer tip: Demands are more likely to limit the possibilities and create distance between people. The trick to asking something as a request is valuing everyone’s needs equally. When you value everyone’s needs equally, then you are more willing to come to solutions that satisfy everyone. It thus opens possibilities and helps build connection.
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Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request

Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request

Mediating Conflict Conversations with Observation, Feeling, Need, and Request

with John Kinyon
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:44 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:44 hours:minutes
Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness practice.
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Can NVC Be Learned Without Learning Observation, Feeling, Need and Request?

Can NVC Be Learned Without Learning Observation, Feeling, Need and Request?

Can NVC Be Learned Without Learning Observation, Feeling, Need and Request?

with Bridget Belgrave, Jeff Brown and Mary Mackenzie
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:44 hours/minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:44 hours/minutes
In this enlightening Trainer Conversation, three veteran CNVC Certified Trainers discuss whether NVC can be learned without first learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as the trainers grapple with the question, eventually covering a wide-range of topics including the spirituality and true essence of NVC.
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Not Trusting the “Yes”

Not Trusting the “Yes”

Not Trusting the “Yes”

with Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 00:24 hours:minutes
Intermediate Skill Level
Audio
00:24 hours:minutes
In this audio recording, Miki demonstrates how to stay in a dialogue when you don't trust someone's "yes," how to equalize power between people and how to allow space for others to say "no" to our requests. In this 2-part audio series, Miki demonstrates how to stay in a dialogue when you don’t trust someone’s “yes,” how to equalize power between people and how to allow space for others to say...
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