Silence And Solitude In The Integration Of Wholeness

This workshop brings attention to and practice of the art of stillness as an essential skill in the Nonviolent Communication Process of needs awareness.

All individuals have needs and values that sustain and enrich our lives.  When those needs are fulfilled, we experience what we may describe as comfortable feelings like happiness or peacefulness, and when they are not fulfilled, we experience what we may describe as uncomfortable feelings like sadness, despair, frustration, and irritation. Understanding that we as well as all living beings around us have needs is the most important aspect of the Nonviolent Communication process.  But how do we know what we need when we were not asked this question in our early years but actively encouraged to put them aside, get over them and 'stop being selfish'?