Topics for learning

From Notes

Suggested Topics for learning from Seed of Peace

The intention of the process - Framing

   * Compassionate connection
   * Creating the kind of connection that will lead to everyone's needs getting met.

The 3 components of Marshall's process

   * Connecting with ourselves
   * Expressing ourselves
   * Receiving others 

The 4 Ingredients

   * Observations
   * Feelings
   * Needs
   * Requests

Fully expressing what is alive in us

   * Connecting with our needs
   * Expressing without blame or judgement

Fully hearing what is alive in others

   * Practice giving and receiving empathy
   * Empathy with hard-to-hear messages
   * Skills-building for empathy
   * Deal with differentiating between genuine empathy and mechanical empathy

Fully empathizing with ourselves

   * What is Empathy? - Marshall, Rogers.
   * Self-Empathy
   * Learning to love our inner jackal
 

How to find meaning in life?

   * What is your vocation, your calling, your life task?
   * Clarifying your values
   * Questions to support your own clarification
   * Identifying specific steps to take

What is honesty?

   * Using Marshall's process requires authenticity.
   * What does mean to be honest and authentic?
   * How do we get there?

Spatial metaphors and learning aids

   * Visual and spatial maps of the NVC processes
   * developed by Gina Lawrie and Bridget Belgrave to aid active learning.

Anger, guilt, shame and depression

   * Why these are special, and why we approach them differently.
   * Fully experience and transform these feelings

Living the process in each moment

   * Bringing your energy into the present
   * Enjoying the Jackal Show

NVC with parents/children/partners

   * Receiving "No!!!" with empathy
   * How to hear the 'Yes' behind the 'No'.

Healing and learning from painful situations

   * Giraffe mourning
   * Inner Educator / Inner Chooser

Initiating social change

   * Going upstream to see who is throwing the babies in the water; saving the starfishes.
   * Restorative justice

Power issues

   * How to translate 'enemy images'
   * How to connect with someone you regard as an 'authority'

Life-serving organisations

   * Clarifying the main characteristics of life-serving organizations
   * How to create a life-serving organization

Mediation

   * Informal
   * Formal mediation
   * How do we use meditation to deepen our awareness of feelings and needs?
   * How do we use awareness of feelings and needs to deepen our practice of meditation?

Sharing the process with others

   * Coaching
   * Group facilitation skills

The spiritual basis of the process

   * Compassionate Connection
   * Awareness in the present moment
   * How do you experience the flow of life?