Connecting Across Differences is a podcast by Dian Killian, Ph.D. of Work Collaboratively about having greater empathy for yourself and others, and how to hear others more deeply and make sure that you’ve been heard. Episodes are available on iTunes. Listen to Episode 4 below: On this episode of Connecting Across Differences, Dian focuses on making … Continue reading Episode 4: Making Requests
Episode 3: Practicing Self Empathy
Connecting Across Differences is a podcast created by Dian Killian, Ph.D. of Work Collaboratively about having greater empathy for yourself and others, and how to hear others more deeply and make sure that you’ve been heard. Episodes are available on iTunes. Listen to Episode 3: On this episode of the podcast, we focus on self-empathy … Continue reading Episode 3: Practicing Self Empathy
Episode 2: The 4 Steps of Collaborative (Nonviolent) Communication
In the first episode of the Connecting Across Differences podcast, Dian talked about the first step in the model of compassionate, Nonviolent Communication: the power of making a clear observation free of evaluation or judgement. You can listen to the first episode here. In this episode, Dian gives an overview of all 4 steps and talks in depth about the … Continue reading Episode 2: The 4 Steps of Collaborative (Nonviolent) Communication
Episode 1: Making Observations
Connecting Across Differences is a podcast by Dian Killian, Ph.D. of Work Collaboratively about having greater empathy for yourself and others, and how to hear others more deeply and make sure that you’ve been heard. Listen to Episode 1: In the first episode, Dian focuses on key principles from her book, Urban Empathy, that can … Continue reading Episode 1: Making Observations
#4Steps: Wrapping it up
#12. Wrapping it up Now you have all the steps that will help you give effective feedback: setting your intention, coming up with an observation, sharing your feelings, and your needs, and the two-sub parts of the request step: making both connection requests and then clear strategy requests that are concrete, positive and doable. Just … Continue reading #4Steps: Wrapping it up
#4Steps: A Guide to Strategy Requests
#11. Step 4 - A Guide to Strategy Requests When focused on a strategy request, you want it to be concrete, positive, and doable. Otherwise, it’s like depending on telepathy to actually get your needs met. Strategy requests are concrete This step is in some ways like the observation step. What would the action … Continue reading #4Steps: A Guide to Strategy Requests
#4Steps: Getting Your Needs Met (Connection Requests, Part Two)
#10 Step 4 (Part 2) - Getting Your Needs Met (Connection Requests, Part Two) Making a connection request is like getting a weather report. It also helps you get to the next kind of request you’ll make, once you have connection: a strategy request. The reason you want to connect with the person first is … Continue reading #4Steps: Getting Your Needs Met (Connection Requests, Part Two)
#4Steps: Putting It All Together (Connection Requests)
#9 Step 4 (Part 1) - Putting It All Together (Connection Requests) So far we’ve focused first on external reality - what we’ve seen or heard in the external world, and then how we’re experiencing that, internally, via our feelings and needs. All of the steps so far work towards our taking responsibility for our … Continue reading #4Steps: Putting It All Together (Connection Requests)
#4Steps: What’s driving you? (part 2)
#8. Step 3: What’s driving you? (“How feelings connect to needs”) Take a moment and think again about what happened. What did you hear or see that you want to give feedback about (the observation - step one). When you think about what you saw or what you heard, how do you feel (feelings- step … Continue reading #4Steps: What’s driving you? (part 2)
About the Four Steps course
You can access this course three ways: Here on my blog, where each Friday another part of the class is published In your inbox via Dailybitsof.com In community, via NVC Academy
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