All people have good intentions
Sometimes you are not included in these intentions. “What are your hidden motives?” My colleague looked sceptically at me after I offered to take on an unpopular job task. My first reaction was irritation and disappointment. I wanted to contribute and was met with...
What is Self-Empathy?
In the blog post series “AI explains NVC”, Joachim Berggren (JB) asks questions about NVC to Alex Incognito (AI), a fictional character representing Artificial Intelligence in the form of the tool ChatGPT. *** JB: Hi Alex! After asking you questions and...
Silent Empathy – Highlighting an Underestimated Practice
During my years of studying Nonviolent Communication (NVC), I have learnt to use the four components (observations, feelings, needs and requests) to create connection. A quality of connection in which my joy of contributing to others has risen. Through empathy and...
Inspiration – The Needs’ Year (Week 37)
The day before yesterday I got married! After the wedding ceremony and partying all night I was dead tired. All of Sunday was spent eating leftovers and resting. Visiting party guests came over for brunch while waiting for buses and trains back home. Later I took a...
Touch – The Needs’ Year (Week 29)
For ten years, from the time I was about seven, I don’t recall many memories of physical closeness to others. I remember a sweaty wrestling game with my friends when I turned ten. I have sweet memories of being close to the girl I was in love with when I was 14, when...
How to change a habitual way of communicating?
As you are reading this article, I guess that you want to, just like me, develop your ability to listen to others, to cooperate, to express what is important to you – simply to create connection with people. Almost no matter what we are interested in in life,...
3 steps to receive NO from your child with empathy
I suppose we all would love our children to have courage to disagree when they are not willing to do something, especially when they are teenagers and prompt to be easily influenced by their peers. I can imagine that we, parents, share the dream of seeing our children...
The art of listening with empathy
About empathy. Many people that I have met on my path are convinced that they have no problem with empathy. They say that they can listen patiently and then show compassion and understanding by suggesting a solution, sharing their experience or giving a...