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Compassionate Communication: Expanding your capacity for mutual, heartfelt exchanges based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication(SM)
Services:
- Workshops: Vitalizing your communication skills during workshops such as Language for Lovers, Empathy, and Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
- Individual, Couples, and Family Counseling: Helping individuals, couples, and families create new and more loving communication patterns by focusing on observations, feelings, needs, and requests
- Mediation: Diffusing conflict through third-party dispute resolution services that help identify issues, clarify goals, and explore options beyond litigation
Do you find yourself:
- Placing blame or being blamed during your communications with others?
- Dissatisfied with the level of intimacy you experience with your partner?
- Stuck in patterns of communication that you've outgrown?
- Feeling perplexed by continued misunderstandings between you and the people you love?
- Becoming angry when you speak with a partner, family member, or co-worker?
- Experiencing sadness or depression due to communication breakdowns within your family?
- Unable to resolve conflict with another party, but looking for a solution beyond the court system?
Then Compassionate Communication skills can help:
Enthusiastic and empathetic in spirit, John is an expert facilitator with the ability to help you get to the core of your communication issues. Establishing a tone of respect and care, he opens his workshops and private sessions to the unique, healing dynamics that arise spontaneously in the presence of heartfelt exchanges.
John begins your work together with a special exercise or reading designed to offer comfort and support. Feeling calm, grounded, and safe, you are encouraged to speak about the difficulties you experience when communicating with friends, co-workers, and loved ones. Listening without judgment or criticism, John then helps you understand your unique communication needs and the barriers to their fulfillment. As you gain clarity, you learn a new set of tools designed to prevent conflict and disconnection while allowing you to explore the depths of your own compassion. With John's help, you are able to see that feelings - your own and those of the people you love - are true gifts, ones with the potential to make every relationship infinitely richer.
Working with John, you will:
- Learn how to express your truth without finding fault or feeling shame.
- Become empowered to listen and speak in a whole new way.
- Find the secret ingredients that allow love and loving exchanges to flourish in your cherished relationships.
- Feel like you and your partner are finally speaking the same language.
- Find you are less prone to anger when faced with difficult discussions.
- Experience lasting joy in the wake of warm and genuine conversation.
- Resolve disputes peacefully, without the need for painful and costly lawsuits.
The fundamentals of Compassionate Communication:
The Compassionate Communication model (also known as Nonviolent Communication) was developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg who grew up Jewish in a rough, anti-Semitic Detroit neighborhood. Based on his experiences, Dr. Rosenberg developed a new form of communication that provides peaceful alternatives to violent situations. By shifting the focus of our interactions from diagnosing and judging to what we are actually observing, needing, feeling, and requesting, Compassionate Communication allows us to discover the depths of our own caring. With an emphasis on deep listening—to ourselves as well as others—Compassionate Communication fosters respect, empathy, and a mutual desire to interact from the heart.
Testimonials
"I found my workshop with John to be very helpful. He helped me be both a better listener and more compassionate, opening up my eyes to the possibility of a very happy and fulfilling life. He answered all questions with thoughtfulness and backtracked when people needed more information. It was a very comfortable experience."
J.W., Seattle, WA
"Early in the support group, I was very tense and spent most of the session speaking passionately about my fear, anger and sadness. John helped me feel seen, heard and understood. He is able to think clearly about emotionally laden material and uses the Compassionate Communication model to separate feelings, thoughts, behaviors and expectations. His unconditional acceptance others is profoundly healing."
T.D.C., Seattle, WA
"I recently went to a Compassionate Communications group facilitated by John and found the way people in my group shared their issues with each other was quite outstanding. With the help of the group, I was able to focus on the things I need to draw into my life. John is an excellent facilitator and has the ability to help people get to the core of their issues in a gentle and loving manner."
Priya Kendrick, Seattle, WA
Education, Training, and Credentials:
- Candidate for Certification in Nonviolent Communications Training, Center for Nonviolent Communication; Advanced Training in Neurolinguistic Programming and Active Listening, BA in Theater Arts, University of Florida
- In practice since 2001
Articles:
"Online Introduction to Nonviolent Communication"
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