• Weekly Lunch-time Pick-up Practice Sessions – Free
  Every Monday, 12:05 - 12:55 at KPCC, Room 300
  16 Leon Sullivan Way, Charleston, Suite 310
  Hosted by Rose Ann Hefner            346-9689 x15  

KPCC's Basic Compassionate Communication Course

Compassionate Communication, also known as Nonviolent Communication (NVC), is a set of tools designed to help foster compassion and understanding both within ourselves and others. These tools can be used therapeutically, in conflict situations, or in everyday conversation.

Rather than the frequent style of ordinary communication which often involves making judgments or evaluations followed by demands, NVC delineates four components of communication: observation, identification of feelings, sharing of met or unmet needs, making requests.

In the basic class we will help participants learn the skills to make careful observations free of evaluation, and to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting us. We learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others, and to identify and clearly articulate what we are wanting in a given moment. While this is an easy model, we have found apply it takes mindfulness and practice!

We usually teach the course in five or six sessions over as many weeks. The classes are usually 90 minutes each. We also teach the course in day long sessions.

Using NVC we often find that when we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed, rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion. Through its emphasis on deep listening—to ourselves as well as others—NVC fosters respect, attentiveness and empathy, and engenders a mutual desire to give from the heart. The form is simple, yet powerfully transformative.

Watch a short video presentation about nonviolent communication, featuring NVC founder Marshall Rosenburg

Locations of Presentations

We prefer to come to your congregation or organization with a Compassionate Compassionate presentation.
We also present some of our workshops at KPCC's main office, which is located at
First Presbyterian Church, 16 Leon Sullivan Way, Suite 310, Charleston, WV
We are interested in getting this program out into the community as much as possible!

 

Calendar, Schedule, Costs

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"All of life boils down to being able to communicate."
- Becky Baily