The NVC Academy, the world’s first online school for Nonviolent Communication, is offering empathy related courses and resources in its NVC Multimedia library during the month of October.
Tomorrow, join relationship expert Kelly Bryson for a FREE teleourse entitled The Future of Love. Reimagine your perception of love so you can feel love more deeply, let love in and actually be love. Take this introductory session to determine if the full 6-week course is a good fit for you.
A Peaceful Living 4-Day Intermediate Retreat with Mary Mackenzie January 29 – February 1, 2010
Namaste Retreat Home, Laguna Beach, CA
Empathy As a Way of Being: An Intermediate Level Retreat designed to facilitate deep growth and transformation.
Mary Mackenzie, M.A., is the Executive Director, Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication, Co-founder NVC Academy, CNVC Certified Trainer, Mediator and Author.
Well, it’s your lucky day!
A 24-Hour Tele-Empathy Event with highly experienced empathy facilitators is underway.
Every hour on the hour a group will gather by phone to practice Empathy skills. This forum is a place to play, learn, and share about empathy. The line will be open until 12:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles time). It’s free and no registration is required.
Visit http://bit.ly/17ml3R for the call-in number, facilitator schedule and more information.
Empathy is but one component of fully communicating with others, albeit a crucial one. While empathy gives us a way to understand others, it doesn’t give us a way to directly express ourselves. The most effective and compassionate model for more complete communication I’ve found is called Nonviolent Communication, first proposed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.
Nonviolent Communication or NVC, offers practical, concrete skills for manifesting the purpose of creating connections of compassionate giving and receiving based in a consciousness of interdependence and power with others. These skills include:
These skills emphasize personal responsibility for our actions and the choices we make when we respond to others, as well as how to contribute to relationships based in cooperation and collaboration.
In the NVC context, empathy means being present to “what’s alive” in another person. So using the model above, we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, needed, and wanted, rather than on diagnosing and judging. In doing so, we discover the depth of our own compassion. So NVC and emapthy involves a quality of consciousness or presence, along with specific methods to focus our attention to listen beyond the words to the essence of the message we are receiving.
If this quality of communication sounds intriguing, the NVC Academy is currently offering a monthly subscription to learn the basics of NVC via convenient telecourse.
Dr David Burns is a cognitive therapist specialising in relationship management. In his fourth column, he offers advice on how to make troubled relationships work.
Editor’s Note: What Dr. Burns writes about the pitfalls and strategies of communicating with loved ones are remarkably similar to those described by a communication process called Nonviolent Communication. Judging, blaming and labeling are strategies that intensify misunderstanding, while empathic listening and honest expression lead to deeper connections. You can take advantage of an opportunity to learn the basics of Nonviolent Communication on an ongoing basis with a new low cost subscription program. Read more…
Would you like to increase effectiveness and connection in your organization?
Are you tired of difficult conversations and strenuous meetings and would like some manageability in your work life?
In this workshop we plan on exploring some basic principles related to empathic communication in the workplace. We are particularly hopeful that groups and organizations that may not have a training budget will send some key individuals to this event.
The focus of this workshop is to provide an initial exposure to the following principles and practices and to the inquiry about how to bring them into the workplace:
We are excited to offer this training as part of the International Day of Empathic Action and International Nonviolence Day, and to honor Gandhi’s birthday.
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Oakland, CA, First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St., corner of 27th St.
Requested Contribution: donations accepted
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