19TH JANUARY 2021 & 16TH FEBRUARY 2021

19:00 to 20:15 GTM

Nonviolent language helps us process the hurt we feel in our bodies when we speak or hear harsh words. Kinder words and softer hearts help!

About this Event

Traditional ideas of judging people and their actions as right/ wrong or good/ bad, usually lead to some people’s needs being met at the expense of others, which causes division into “us vs them.” When we feel separate from our own hearts, we can speak harshly to ourselves, because we’ve learned to judge and criticise ourselves when we’re unhappy about our actions or about actions we permit to happen to us. Nonviolent communication shows us how to express what’s happening honestly and follow through that, with feeling our feelings as body sensations. Being aware of our feelings is a transformational bridge to having more fruitful conversations.

“As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime”

We learn how our brain jumps into action quickly, with patterns of behaviour that are less kind and don’t serve us well. We can learn to pause instead and give ourselves compassion for the rough times, the careless words and unkind actions.

Then we can be present in the world wholly aligned with our heartfelt wishes, for empathy, understanding, care and respect. When we can “ground” ie feel the support of the Earth who feeds us – we arrive in our Being in the present, we are powerful and loving.

“Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.”

Our emotions are guides that tell us what we really need, yet we tend to push them away, awkward with the discomforts we feel when stimulated. Our human patterns of reacting with fight, flight or freeze do get in the way of connecting to our hearts and acting with compassion and love. With NVC we learn to form relationships with our emotions, acknowledge them and figure out our needs, when we cherish the aliveness that’s here every moment.