Articles tagged with: compassionate communication
Nov 19-20, Sat/Sun 10-5, Nelson
Core Connection with Paxe
based on Marshal Rosenberg’s NVC
Clear, Effective Communication
Growing the skill of Understanding
Exploring the ‘Why’ behind the ‘What’
Seeing the People before the Problem
$150
Venue to be confirmed
Contact: Paxe 03 …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
[Note: This style of communication is also known as Non Violent Communication. Ed.]
You know you are in reaction when you experience one or more of these things:
-You feel your shoulders get tight (or …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
[Note: This style of communication is also known as Non Violent Communication. Ed.]
Your partner is feeling anxious about work and in an unconscious expression of that anxiety, she or he sends a jackal …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Often couples talk about rebuilding trust. The idea of rebuilding something you had before is a critical mistake in thinking. When you imagine you need to “re-build” trust, what you really …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Curiosity for Poor Decisions
Your partner can’t meet you for a hike because for the fifth time this month he has gone off his diet and eaten something to which he is allergic. He …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Managing Emotions and Herding Cats
Herding cats is difficult not because cats are stubborn or unruly, but rather because cats weren’t meant to move like a herd. The same is true of managing your …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Seeing a family member make decisions that you know will only bring them more suffering is painful. You love them and desperately want them to be well, and want a sense of peace …
Connection Gem of the Week
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
When Every Request is a Demand
If your partner has difficulty believing that s/he can have you and be authentic or autonomous, s/he may hear your every request as a …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Getting Started with Mindfulness & Jackals
The foundation of Compassionate Communication (NVC) is mindfulness. Awareness of what’s happening and what’s creating disconnect sets the stage for change. Thus I continually encourage those wishing to …
Compassionate Communication
The weekend is a foundation workshop in Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, attack and defend; to think and communicate in terms of what is “right” and …
GROWING UP IN TRUST
Raising & Educating Our Children Without Punishment or Rewards
A Workshop presented by JUSTINE MOL from THE NETHERLANDS
for parents, grandparents, teachers & anyone working with children
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 9 am – 5 …
Working Hard to be Seen – By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
In an ideal world, you would grow up with a sense of being seen and embraced for the multidimensional unique person you are. But your parents, doing …
By LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
In weekend NVC retreat, a participant, let’s call her Carol, described a meeting at work in which her boss offered feedback. The words, tone, and volume of the feedback didn’t meet Carol’s needs …
Because great communication is going to save the planet
Pause and Resource by LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Resourcing, in the way I am using the term, means reconnecting to your source of grounding, nourishment, and wholeness.
Recently a student told …
The attraction of blame is that you imagine it will provide some sort of relief in a difficult situation.
In anything you do, you long to be harmony with life – meet your needs and those …
By Susie Spiller
I value wellbeing above all else. This involves communication – being heard and listening to the intention behind words, without hearing criticism and blame. I am blessed to live in an eco village, …
How do we move forward into a greener, more environmentally savvy future? Well first all all we need to learn to talk to each other. Good communication is the basis for healthy communities and …
Suffice it to say that I got somewhat angry with the way the media twisted the issue into a simplistic conflict story of science vs dummies.
