Itara O'Connell - Compassionate Communication

NVC Beginners Group (Download Flyer)
14 consecutive Mondays 7-9pm
Starting September 8th, 2008

Using Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication approach, we will practice:

• Expressing ourselves in ways that others can hear wholeheartedly.

• Receiving ourselves and others through compassionate listening.

• Identifying powerful words that contribute to understanding and a deepening of connection.

• Liberating ourselves from communication patterns that do not create connection or serve our needs.

NVC Structured Practice
10 week course increasing fluency • Mondays 7-9 PM -call for dates

• Deepen empathy skills especially when our actions stimulated hurt in others.

• Coping with intensity.

• Transform self judgment and enemy images

• Making and breaking agreements with care

• The power of grieving when needs are not met and healing old wounds

• Basic mediation for ourselves and others

• Power over vs. power with

• Make clear, present, do-able requests individually and in groups

•Transform the pain of unmet needs to the beauty of the needs

• Discovering and transforming "core Jackal" thinking

• Life Lab: how NVC can support life changes, social action

• What am I most afraid to say to my partner? friend? coworker?

Weekly On-going Practice Group
Weekly - Thursdays 10AM-Noon
Skill building and empathy practice.

Intermediate Practice Group
Tuesday meets every other Tuesday 7-9 PM
Deepen your capacity for connection.

Individuals & couples by appointment

916-498-1285