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  1. How To Interrupt Gossip

    How To Interrupt Gossip

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 3 - 5 minutes · 05/28/2022

    Reflect on a time when you were either expressing gossip or participating passively. What feelings and needs were up for you at the time? How might you have interrupted the gossip with connection? When interrupting gossip it can take a few rounds of empathy and honest expression to bridge understanding, and create a space in which mutual care and curiosity arises. Read on for an example.

  2. Understanding Arguments Against NVC

    Understanding Arguments Against NVC

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 3 - 5 minutes · 7/20/2022

    Even those who practice NVC can repeat old patterns of thinking, believing, feeling, and behaving. If they do, but still use ‘NVC language’ others may think the issue is NVC rather than the person’s capacity. This week, notice even a small instance where someone is against something you suggest. To build trust and connection, experiment with offering empathy or asking them to share what they think, feel, or need.

  3. Boundaries

    Boundaries

    The Journey To Being Able To Say "No"

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Articles · 5 - 8 minutes · 11/5/2022

    Struggling to say "no"? Here are ways you change your adjacent mind patterns. First, note the differences between those who respect boundaries and those who often don't. Second, review situations in which you lost track of your choice. And rehearse what it would sound, look, and feel like if you kept connection to your choice. Third, seek validation of your experience - from a grounded and mindful (non-reactive) state.

  4. Starting a Practice

    Starting a Practice

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Video · 40 minutes · 11/17/2022

    Create your own new personal practice using the Pathways to Liberation: Matrix of Self-Assessment and increase your capacity to access skills when you need them the most.

  5. Empathy And Strategies For Overwhelm

    Empathy And Strategies For Overwhelm

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 4 - 6 minutes · 12/21/2022

    Making decisions from overwhelm can be costly for you and others. Instead, to get distance name overwhelm as it comes. Apply self-compassion. Be suspicious of your impulse to withdraw. Find ways to meet your needs. Tell others about your overwhelm. This may allow more support, connection and trust-building. Plan what to do to meet your needs next time you're overwhelmed. Tweak your plan.

  6. Five Communication Guidelines For Change Agents

    Five Communication Guidelines For Change Agents

    Alan Rafael Seid

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 06/07/2023

    When speaking to decision makers about social change issues it helps to communicate with compassion, clarity, curiosity, calm, and respect while seeking to understand their needs. This way there’s a better chance for more trust and connection that’s crucial for a win-win strategy to come about. This may take several conversations.

  7. Yoram Mosenzon suggests that when we make positive language requests, we tell people what we want. We give them an image of what would make life more wonderful. What we usually do is tell people what we do not want. This tends to create resistance.

  8. How does Parenting Impact Social Change?

    How does Parenting Impact Social Change?

    Roxy Manning

    Video · 1:29 minutes · 04/23/2024

    What would it be like if we raised children who already knew how to be inclusive, who already understood climate change, and who knew that they had a role in keeping our planet liveable? Roxy Manning believes that how we parent can support the next generation in showing up with an innate connection to Social Change.

  9. Creating Real Challenges—Are you Game?

    Creating Real Challenges—Are you Game?

    Martha Lasley

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 10/21/209

    A challenge is an expansion of making a clear, positive doable request — and, when given, the person feels deeply seen by the challenger. A challenge isn't just about getting someone to take action on something important to them; it's a fierce form of empathy that supports people in connecting with their life force, and integrates it into their lives with action. A real challenge is tied to the receiver's goals, passions and dreams -- and expands their potential.

  10. Interventions For Anger

    Interventions For Anger

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Practice Exercises · 3 - 5 minutes · 1/8/2023

    Anger is a sign that you're resisting what's happening because you perceive an overwhelming threat, not trusting yourself to handle what's happening directly. Vulnerable feelings under anger are usually fear, hurt, or grief. Experiencing and expressing these feelings and connecting them to your needs, gives you access to more skill, insight, compassion, and wisdom. Read on for 3 questions to ask yourself when angry.

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