Year Program Topics
The intention of NVC
- Compassionate connection
- Creating the kind of connection that will lead to everyone’s needs getting met.
The 4 Ingredients
- Observations
- Feelings
- Needs
- Requests
Fully empathizing with ourselves
- Self-Empathy dancefloor
- Learning to love our inner jackal
Fully expressing what is alive in us
- Connecting deeply with our needs
- Expressing without blame or judgement
Fully hearing what is alive in others
- Practise giving and receiving empathy
- Empathy with hard-to-hear messages
- Skills-building for empathy
- Deal with differentiating between genuine empathy and mechanical empathy
NVC in close relationships
- How to say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in a way that invites people to listen
- Staying in touch with myself and others
- Receiving “No!!!” with empathy
- How to hear the 'Yes' behind the 'No'.
Mediation, Reconciliation and Healing
- ‘Poking your nose in’
- Formal mediation
- Supporting people to reconcile
- Couples ‘counselling’
- The healing power of empathy
How to find meaning in life?
- What is your vocation, your calling, your life task?
- Clarifying your values
- Identifying specific steps to take
What is honesty?
- What does it mean to be honest and authentic using NVC?
The NVC Dance Floors
- Visual and spatial maps of the NVC processes developed by Gina Lawrie and Bridget Belgrave to aid active learning.
- The Inner / Outer dances
Anger, guilt, shame and depression
- Fully experience and transform these feelings on the NVC Dance Floors
Healing and learning from painful situations
- Giraffe mourning
- Inner Educator / Inner Chooser dancefloor
NVC and Money
- Applying NVC to our financial affairs
- “Ask for 100% of what you want and be prepared to empathize!”
NVC and Sex
- How to use NVC in our sexual life
- How to ask for what you want
Living NVC in each moment
- Bringing your energy into the present
- Enjoying the Jackal Show
Initiating social change
- Going upstream to see who is throwing the babies in the water
- Restorative justice
Power issues
- How to translate ‘enemy images’
- How to connect with someone you regard as an ‘authority’
Life-serving organisations
- Clarifying the main characteristics of life-serving organizations
- How to create a life-serving organization
Sharing NVC with others
- Coaching people on the NVC Dance Floors
- Group facilitation skills
The spiritual basis of NVC
- Compassionate Connection
- Awareness in the present moment
- How do you experience the flow of life?
NVC and Meditation
- How do we use meditation to deepen our awareness of feelings and needs?
- How do we use awareness of feelings and needs to deepen our practice of meditation?
