From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
Audio
45 minutes
For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield. With humility, tenderness, and courage, Roxy challenges your perspectives and encourages you to open your heart and mind.
Supporting Our Loved Ones In Living Authentically
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
Trainer Tip: Sometimes the people in our lives don’t yet have the skills to speak directly about what they want. When this happens we can make guesses about how they feel and what they want. This can lead to greater connection and chances we all can be more satisfied with our interactions.
Distinguishing Self-Revealing from Projection
Trainer Tip
10 - 15 minutes
In this book excerpt, Kathleen and Jared offer a path to reach deeper clarity, distinguishing between revealing ourselves and projection.
Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty
Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty
Contributing to Emotional Safety Without Giving Up Honesty
Article
5 - 7 minutes
Even in a conflict, you can offer emotional safety without being enmeshed -- and you can do this without sliding into strategies to gain power over another. You can prioritize connection, express your intention, make space for mutuality, honestly reveal what you care about and propose a way forward. This means caring for your needs regardless of their response -- and mourning if their response isn't what you want. Read on for more.
Honesty Is the Key
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
Trainer Tip: In Nonviolent Communication, we see expressing honesty as a gift of our authenticity, and a chance for others to support us in getting our needs met -- this can flourish and deepen our relationships. We can notice and act on opportunities to be honest with the components of OFNR (Observations, Feelings, Needs, and Requests).
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
Audio
10 -12 hours
For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield. With humility, tenderness, and courage, Roxy challenges your perspectives and encourages you to open your heart and mind. Roxy uses concrete examples and visual tools to illustrate complex concepts.
Authenticity
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
Trainer Tip: When we are authentic about who we are, and our preferences, we give everyone and ourselves a better opportunity to open up dialogue about how to meet our collective needs better. We simply express our truth, and in that way we value our own needs as much as those of others.
Help for Overwhelm
Article
3-5 minutes
Reducing overwhelm requires you to reconnect with your authentic choice, be present and compassionate with what's happening, heal trauma, and interrupt the trauma response. Read on for ways that may help you reconnect with your choice, presence and more on trauma.
Beyond “Yes, And:” Acknowledging the “Oops” and “Ouches”
Beyond “Yes, And:” Acknowledging the “Oops” and “Ouches”
Beyond “Yes, And:” Acknowledging the “Oops” and “Ouches”
Article
3 - 5 minutes
How can we respond when we’re horrified by what someone says? How can we deepen our connection to our humanness and authenticity when the impact is hurtful? Read on to see examples of the three steps of "calling out", "calling in", and "calling forth".
Social Change
Video
13 minutes
Listen in as Roxy explains how NVC approaches systemic change: through the protective use of force, the ability to self connect and connect to others, requests vs. demands, and understanding needs that are motivating behaviors.