Conscious Communication Skill-Groups
Tools for More Intimacy & Connection
Navigate defensiveness and other communication habits that erode your most important relationships:
- Learn to say “no” and ask for what you want
- Speak authentically - but kindly - in difficult conversations
- Work through judgments that trigger you to repair connection
- Cultivate compassionate self-talk that supports your nervous system
- Be heard - really heard!
- Learn what to do rather than fix or give advice
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Exclusively For Women Trying to Conceive:
Mondays: 4pm PST - $200 (7pm EST, 11pm GMT, 10am Tues AEDT)
Thursdays: 10:30am PST - $200 (1:30pm EST, 5:30pm GMT, 4:30am Fri AEDT)
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Open to Anyone:
Fridays: 10am-11:30am PDT - In Person Only
Gather your own group of 6 or more participants
and your tuition is waived - Email for details |
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More info about Conscious Communication and tenets/background:
Teachings about Conscious Communication are largely based on Marshall Rosenberg's many books and prolific body of work around what he calls Non-Violent Communication. Find more information at www.cnvc.org.
The basic concept of NVC is this: Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, and diagnose - to think and communicate in term of what is right/wrong with people. We express our feelings in terms of what another person has "done to us," instead of a feeling independent of another person. We mix up our needs with the strategies we're using to meet those needs, i.e. "I want you to spend more time with me," versus "I'm needing companionship." And we tend to ask for what we'd like using demands, the threat of punishment/guilt, or the promise of rewards.
NVC teaches how to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others, how to use our words more consciously and less habitually. We are led to express ourselves with honesty and clarity, while paying others respectful and empathic attention.
In any exchange, we come to hear our own deeper needs and others' needs, allowing for deeper connections, a more effective resolution of conflicts, and a calmer, more settled nervous system!
- Spend more time connecting deeply with others & yourself?
- Experience less painful and shorter conflicts?
- Have more awareness of your needs, wants and desires - and know how to express them?
- Increase the match between your values and actions?
- Translate judgments & perceived slights into dialogue that repairs relationships?
- Express to your loved-ones how best to support you when you're upset?
More info about Conscious Communication and tenets/background:
Teachings about Conscious Communication are largely based on Marshall Rosenberg's many books and prolific body of work around what he calls Non-Violent Communication. Find more information at www.cnvc.org.
The basic concept of NVC is this: Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, and diagnose - to think and communicate in term of what is right/wrong with people. We express our feelings in terms of what another person has "done to us," instead of a feeling independent of another person. We mix up our needs with the strategies we're using to meet those needs, i.e. "I want you to spend more time with me," versus "I'm needing companionship." And we tend to ask for what we'd like using demands, the threat of punishment/guilt, or the promise of rewards.
NVC teaches how to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others, how to use our words more consciously and less habitually. We are led to express ourselves with honesty and clarity, while paying others respectful and empathic attention.
In any exchange, we come to hear our own deeper needs and others' needs, allowing for deeper connections, a more effective resolution of conflicts, and a calmer, more settled nervous system!
