15/04/2023
🌈 Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has been described as a language of compassion, as a tool for positive social change, and as a spiritual practice.
🌈 NVC gives you the tools and consciousness to understand what triggers you, to take responsibility for your reactions, and to deepen your connection with yourselves and others, thereby transforming your habitual responses to life. Ultimately, it involves a radical change in how you think about life and meaning.
🌷 The four NVC steps are: OBSERVATIONS, FEELINGS, NEEDS, REQUESTS 🌷
✨observation: distinguish observations/facts from interpretations and judgments, the purpose of naming observations is to build common ground.
✨feelings: you name the feelings that appear in you, your body, in connection to the described situation.
✨needs: they are at the center of your interest and can be described as a life force or an inner energy that “drives'' you. You want to establish contact with them when you empathize with others and yourselves.
✨requests: remember that the request is a request, not a demand!
🌸 It is worth expressing requests clearly and concretely and it is important that the request is doable and that you say what you want, not what you don’t want 🌸
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