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  1. Enjoy listening in as Arnina assists participants in fine tuning what they wish for their futures, and what practices they intend to embrace as the course winds down. She also offers strategies for what they can do if they forget their intended practice, and revisits the importance of untangling Needs from Core Belief.

  2. Here are five practical ideas from Ceri, Jo, and Sarah for creating simple agreements with any group you are working with when conflict arises!
  3. Making Requests and Avoiding Demands

    Making Requests and Avoiding Demands

    Sylvia Haskvitz

    Practice Exercises · 5 - 10 minutes · 07/18/2021

    Sylvia Haskvitz offers a practical and effective approach to making requests. Learn the two questions that can clarify your motivation for making a request, three ways to discern a request from a demand, and five possible reasons for meeting requests.

  4. Eradicating judgments is likely impractical as our minds naturally form them. However, understanding inevitable judgments as indicators of our needs rather than truths can foster empathy. Expressing needs rather than judgments can better support connection and openness between one another.

  5. This telecourse recording is for anyone wanting to integrate empathy into his/her life in a more natural, authentic way.

  6. The Living Energy of Needs

    The Living Energy of Needs

    Susan Skye

    Video · 32 minutes · 07/31/2010

    Have you experienced inauthenticity, confusion and flatness in expressing empathy with others? Do you long to create a more natural quality of energy as you practice empathy? Or are you a trainer looking for guidance to teach workshop participants a more natural flow in their empathy practice?

  7. From Domination to Partnership

    From Domination to Partnership

    Kirsten Kristensen

    Video · 1 hour, 15 minutes · 04/04/2022

    How can we create a partnership and eye-level dialog with people who we perceive to have more power? In this session, we will create a practice of humanizing ourselves and others through empathy, practicing scary honesty, and making requests that serve both persons’ needs

  8. NVC Dialogue Lab

    NVC Dialogue Lab

    (5 Session Course)

    Catherine Cadden, Jesse Wiens Chu

    Multi-session Course · 6 hours, 28 minutes · 10/26/2017

    If role play, hearing conversations modeled and dialogue practice is how you learn, this is the telecourse recording for you! Learn the art of entering, staying in and bowing out of the conversational dance using real-life situations.

  9. Setting Boundaries with Attraction

    Setting Boundaries with Attraction

    Elia Lowe-Chardé

    Articles · 3 - 5 minutes · 8/27/2020

    Attraction to others is neither good nor bad. Although it's pleasurable it doesn’t necessarily help with wise discernment. When it arises, it's up to you to engage in wise discernment about how you manage it. This guide provides practices and points of focus to engage your own attraction in a way that holds more choice about what will meet needs for yourself and others, and what role attraction plays.

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