Ideas for workshops
From Notes
A collection of themes and ideas for workshops.
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Requests
See the NVC:28nov plans item.
Fluency
See the NVC:28nov plans item.
Feeling and Needs Literacy
Developing the literacy of feelings and needs. Empathy isn't what you say. Yet words and key diferentiations for tones and ranges of feelings, and of needs, enrich our ability to express ourselves, and to undestand others. So, beyond 'happy' and 'sad'.
Gratitude
Inspired partly by some of MR's expressions of gratitude, partly by the Giraffe Fuel For life CD, and partly by a struggle to send adequate responses to valued communications. I do find it really frustrating at times, trying to express gratitude 'adequately', so practice is definitely welcome.
Chooser-Educator Dance
This is an 'unusual' dance, that seems to need a fair bit of practice to get the hang of.
Apologising in Giraffe
This is another process that seems to lead to confusion, so where clarity and practice are needed.
The NVC version of apologizing is more along the lines of mourning human needs that have gone unmet, rather than the typical use of an apology, which implies that the person apologizing did something wrong, bad, or inappopriate in some way.
Judgments such as these, directed at the self, are just as destructive to human relationships than moralistic judgments directed outward at other people. So we want a more poweful way to apologize than to simply say, "I'm very sorry," because, once again, for most people that implies that I did something wrong -- in Nonviolent Communication there is no such as thing as "doing something wrong."
