Keep your NVC fit: Empathic Listening

In this  session we will focus on the Empathic Listening, which is a practice to give you a difference embodied experience of NVC

Keep your NVC fit is a monthly series to practice 3 core NVC practices. There is a daytime session 11am – 12pm and an evening session 7-8pm UK time (in each month we practice different skills)

• 4 steps of Self-Empathy
• Empathic Listening
• Role Plays of Difficult Conversations

About Empathic Listening

This is the skill of holding space for someone when they are trying to process and understand something that has happened. It’s the skill of reflecting back and guessing feelings and needs in supportive ways. It’s also a helpful skill for meetings that are getting derailed or stuck.

Before you come, you can watch this short video about Reflecting back with Effectiveness and Ease 

And this video which is about effective ways of listening and reflecting back, as per the Listening Hour Structure.

Other months’ practice

About Role Play

Role Play is a practice to give you an embodied experience of NVC inspired dialogue. Before you come to the Role Play session, you can review your input from your Foundation training and read or listen to this short post about the purpose and practice of roleplay 

About self empathy

We will use the 4 steps of empathy practice, which you can recap here.

Practical and Logistics

These practice sessions aren’t refundable or transferable, except in exceptional circumstances.

This is open to people who have done a Foundation training or Intro to NVC. This is not a complete beginners class, although relative beginners (post foundation) are welcome.

Disclaimer / Self Check

Nonviolent Communication is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. This practice session may not be for you:

•  If you have a sense that what you want to explore might be challenging for others,

• if it would be triggering to listen to others speaking about difficult events,

• if other people’s beginner-intermediate level learning of NVC might land awkwardly for you.

If you have any questions, please ask.