Benefits & Testimonials
Compassionate Communication, (aka Nonviolent Communication, or NVC) gives us practical tools to create understanding and connection while becoming aware of, and changing patterns that no longer serve us.
Through practice, we become more skillful in honest expression, attentive listening, asserting personal boundaries, resolving differences and cultivating more peaceful and loving relationships.
Who Will Benefit?
- Individuals — fine tune your relationship skills, transform negative self-talk into confidence and inner freedom. deepen your connection with self and others.
- Couples — deepen your intimacy, reduce misunderstandings, eliminate dynamics that create conflict, heal unresolved issues.
- Parents — reduce power struggles; increase understanding, cooperation and peace in your family relationships. More effectively model important values and choices for children.
- Teachers — reduce stress and conflicts; increase joyful learning and cooperation in the classroom.
- Professionals — increase mutual respect and cooperation with staff and clients, experience more quality, fulfillment and success in your interactions.
- Organizations — create more effective leadership, improve employee and client good will, foster creative collaboration, productivity; reduce stress and employee absenteeism.
Testimonials:
Confidence in Handling Conflict and Anger
"I feel more confident in expressing myself without shutting down or blowing up. I can hear the other person's feelings without making it about me-- that's huge!" Linda Gentle
Resolving issues at work
Learning these communication skills has been instrumental in my workplace-- on more than one accasion I have been able to avert potential conflicts and misunderstandings that could have been very costly. I've been able to resolve issues with greater ease and this literally saved the company thousands of dollars. A Hardt