Connecting with Children
Applying NVC with 'small people'
AUDIENCE: intermediate
Why is communication with children so difficult sometimes?
Would you like to transform power struggles into connection?
Turn resistance into mutual understanding?
Change anger to a flow of love, care and harmony?
We will focus on the following skills
❀ How to transform anger into connection from both sides
❀ How to transform conflict into dialogues with understanding and connection
❀ Empathic listening- how to hear what your children are REALLY trying to say, no matter how they express it
❀ Self-care while caring for our child(ren)/family – how to deeply listen to ourselves, to the depth of what is important to us, and how to communicate that in a way that fosters compassion and cooperation
❀ Stand clearly for our boundaries without using threats or punishments – how to move from being a policeman/woman into just being humans together
❀ How to create peaceful dialogues that include and connect us all
❀ And much more…
TRAINING FOCUS:
- Conflict Transformation
- Family and Interpersonal Relationships
- General NVC
- Spirituality and Inner Work