What is this workshop about?
The workshop is a sharing circle and group practice that helps you get in touch with your feelings to discover your needs. Caring for these needs and connecting with others and their own needs. Discovering and appreciating your own beauty and the love you hold to others. Compassion, mutual experience, understanding, being there for one another. Embracing our human nature. Learning practically about a more compassionate approach to communicate with yourself and others. Through the principles of Nonviolent Communication or Compassionate Communication (NVC) which is a communication process developed by Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s. It focuses on three aspects of communication: self-empathy (defined as a deep and compassionate awareness of one’s own inner experience), empathy (defined as an understanding of the heart in which we see the beauty in the other person), and honest self-expression (defined as expressing oneself authentically in a way that is likely to inspire compassion in others).
Habits of thinking and speaking that lead to the use of violence are learned through culture. NVC theory supposes all human behaviour stems from attempts to meet universal human needs and that these needs are never in conflict. Rather, conflict arises when strategies for meeting needs clash. NVC proposes that if people can identify their needs, the needs of others, and the feelings that surround these needs, harmony can be achieved.
Who is this workshop meant for?
Do you feel that you’re lost or confused about what you really want or need? Do you need help making a decision? Feeling self empathy and worthiness? Connecting with others and being there for them? Do you like to share your human experience and find a comfortable atmosphere for sharing? Do you want to learn how to be more compassionate with yourself and find a productive approach that insures positive communication? Do you long for togetherness? If you do, you will enjoy this workshop and maybe even recommend it!
How would the workshop help you?
- Get in touch with your feelings and needs.
- Feeling compassion to yourself and others.
- Feeling normal and part of a group who shares the same universal feelings and needs.
- Learn how to communicate to yourself and others in a way that would deliver your need for communication.
- Find a support group, empathy buddies, friends whom you can trust and get into deep conversations.
- Improve your talking and listening skills.
- Go deeper in your own realm and human experience. Pealing the layers to get to your core need.
- Get over traumatising experiences.
- Plan your life in a way that satisfies your needs.
- Focus on what is important to you and your loved ones.
What will you learn?
In every session we will tackle a different subject; through which you learn how to implement NVC in many aspects in your life.
- Self-empathy
- Empathy
- Communicating authentically
- Taking a decision
- Getting in touch with your feelings
- Understanding your needs
- Get your needs met
- Understanding Strategies
- Making a request
- Dealing with fear
- How to express a heartfelt sorry
- How to express a heartfelt thank you
Dates & Cost of the group sessions
€25/ per person