If you’re not being heard, you have a choice, you can ask for what you’d like!
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Asking for Empathy
This is an audio excerpt from a recent telecourse series, “What is Empathy?”, sponsored by the NVC Academy and the International Day of Empathic Action.
“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: ‘… it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.’”
—Excerpt from Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
In this telecourse recording, John Kinyon offers an overview and practice with 4 elements of empathy – presence, understanding/meaning, need language, and deepening into needs.
The focus of this recording is learning the presence of empathy and allowing the words of empathic reflection to flow naturally and simply from presence. This can happen when there is an “emptiness of the faculties” and listening with one’s “whole being.” You will also learn about giving people understanding in natural language before moving into translating and connecting to need language.
In this audio segment, Catherine Cadden breaks the empathy process down into four more visible components: intention, presence, focus and confirmation. These four steps make the concept of empathy less nebulous and hopefully more do-able.
This audio excerpt from the free telecourse series, “What is Empathy?” is sponsored by the NVC Academy and the International Day of Empathic Action.
The next FREE session is this morning, Friday September 4th: More info & registration here.
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About Catherine Cadden
CATHERINE CADDEN is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication bringing over ten years of experience practicing, living and teaching Nonviolent Communication (NVC) internationally to participants of all ages. She honors her teachers Jack Kornfield, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ram Dass, and Marshall Rosenberg as well as Stephen and Ondrea Levine for supporting, inspiring and influencing her spiritual path with a daily mind and heart practice in being nonviolence. In 1997, she founded the TEMBA School, a visionary K – 8 academic program rooted in nonviolent philosophy, NVC, sustainable living, and artistic expression.
Wanting empathy but getting advice instead? Do you ever get frustrated by someone trying to “fix” you when you just need someone to be there for you? Jori Manske offers some tips on how to get on track.
This is an audio excerpt from a free telecourse series, “What is Empathy?”, sponsored by the NVC Academy and the International Day of Empathic Action.
The next FREE session is Friday August, 28th: More info & registration here.
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About Jori ManskeJori is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and often works together with her husband Jim, committed for more than 30 years to cooperating together in the great adventure of life, openly and honestly sharing their deepest thoughts and feelings, and honoring and accepting each other with ever-increasing ability. Jori resides with Jim in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Join Jori Mankse for a brief exploration of empathy, what empathy is, and what it isn’t.
The second in a series of FREE telecourses happens today at 4:00PM PDT.
More info & registration here.
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Jori is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and often works together with her husband Jim, committed for more than 30 years to cooperating together in the great adventure of life, openly and honestly sharing their deepest thoughts and feelings, and honoring and accepting each other with ever-increasing ability. Jori resides with Jim in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Applying empathy to ourselves can be a rich and rewarding experience. Self-empathy is the act of listening deeply to our own inner experience. The NVC Academy has made a recording of a self-empathy telecourse available to anyone interested for a nominal fee:
Self empathy is a simple process that can dramatically defuse a situation and provide space for peaceful resolution. It is also a powerful healing process that reveals necessary insight to heal wounds from the past that continue to negatively impact our interactions with others. The practice of self empathy is a simple process with remarkable results.
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