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Jim Manske offers practices to stay in dialogue without defensiveness, especially when it's difficult. Listen to Jim discuss the refining of our commitment to connection and how to respond to others' defensiveness too.
Trainer Tip: It's up to us to get our own needs met. Mary offers some encouraging tips to do just that!
Trainer Tip: The change you're looking for begins with a single step.
Trainer Tip: There are many ways to meet a need. Open to new possibilities.
Trainer Tip: Find ways to celebrate each day and enrich your life.
Trainer Tip: Mary reflects on the nature of happiness and its relationship to presence.
Trainer Tip: Mary explains why success isn't dependent upon another person's pain, by reaching for consensus instead of self-sacrifice.
Trainer Tip: The needs we focus on meeting and the strategies we use to meet those needs change over time. Mary shares about the life-serving nature of change.
Trainer Tip: Mary shares an experience about accepting responsibility for her actions and how that lead her to greater choice and freedom.
Trainer Tip: Using NVC as a tool to transform our judgments can revolutionize our perceptions and relationships.
Trainer Tip: Sometimes the best way to get our need me is to first connect with the needs of another.
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Listen to Roxy Manning explore the barriers to speaking authentically as powerful voices for change, and practice these needed conversations about the ongoing violence in the streets of America.
Trainer Tip: We can expand our connection to humanity by considering the many strategies people use to meet our common needs.
Trainer Tip: Anger is a prominent call to gain our attention. Mary explains why it's worth heeding that call.
Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible, and that nonviolence is a powerful alternative to our habitual Fight, Flight, Freeze responses.
Trainer Tip: NVC asks us to be aware of our needs and discomfort is evidence of an unment need. However focusing on ourselves when we're uncomfortable isn't always the best choice.
Trainer Tip: Do you ever feel certain that other people see things the way you do, only to find out they don’t? Read on.
Trainer Tip: Do you ever think you’re taking life just a little too seriously? Many of us work hard trying to improve our outlook, our ability to communicate, and our lives. Sometimes we work so hard, we forget to enjoy life. So let’s make a pact to enjoy our day.
Trainer Tip: When do we move from using the formal 4-step process of NVC to a more idiomatic, natural-sounding expression? Whenever we're ready!
Trainer Tip: Q: How do we get the love we want? A: Ask for it.