Time for Empathy 2024 – free online NVC conference
One week of online workshops about empathic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offered for free by trainers from all over the world! Learn empathic communication with us, look at empathy from different perspectives and become part of the NVC community which...
Time for Empathy 2023 – free online NVC conference
One week of online workshops about empathic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offered for free by trainers from all over the world! Learn empathic communication with us, look at empathy from different perspectives and become part of the NVC community which...
Violence and Social Change
My presentation is about violence and social change. I am going to discuss Marshall Rosenberg’s idea of social change. The presentation will begin by discussing Johan Galtung’s idea of how direct and structural violence are supported with cultural...
The YES behind the NO – About boundaries
Often when I want to say NO to a request, a jackal hell breaks loose in my head: ‘I don’t want to disappoint them. Will they still like me? I can’t do that to them, can I? It would be rude of me! I will make them feel bad. I have no choice!’ And then: ’But damn them!...
Pettiness and Mattering – Sarah Peyton
Join Sarah Peyton to discover self-compassion and self-warmth for some of the feelings we find hardest to love in ourselves. What happens when we find the gifts that relational neuroscience reveals in the emotions we most often try to ignore, push down or pretend we...
Feel the real for more vitality and intimacy on a needs basis
Feelings are an energy in motion, rather than letters forming words on a list. Feelings, as we all know, are the cue to our most alive need that is calling for our attention and maybe even for some creative action. What to do, if we have learned to numb feelings,...
Empathy and shame – can the two meet?
When we feel shame we are on the opposite end of empathy. Our body is caught up in a reaction that often cuts us off from connection and makes us less creative and open to new options. But does it have to be this way? Or could us befriending shame become a back door...
Empathy for Dreams and Nightmares
Do you ever have dreams or nightmares that you can’t quite shake off? The accompaniment provided by Nonviolent Communication empathy allows extraordinary realizations and fluidity to come out of the numinous and terrifying images of our dreams. Join Sarah Peyton...