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By McKay Savage from London, UK

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@streetgiraffe

NVC Model 1.0 (circa 1980s)

Mediate One's Life

Jackal/obstacle as Giraffe/path...

Dr. Shauna Shapiro - TEDx: Power of Mindfulness - What You Practice Grows Stronger

A favorite quote...

Marshall Rosenberg

About the origin story of the giraffe/jackal symbolism, vis-a-vis street giraffe(s) & streetifying

.@OrenJaySofer on #MarshallRosenberg's use of giraffe symbolism & his own discovery of #NVC as a meditative/#mindfulness practice (excerpts from introduction of #SayWhatYouMeanBook: https://t.co/InAkwqDGI2) #NVCconsciousness #NVCpractices #streetgiraffe #streetgiraffesbookclub pic.twitter.com/55IqmmHjYS

— Street Giraffe (@StreetGiraffe) May 6, 2019

Oren Jay Sofer's "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Guude to Nonviolent Communication" (p. 8 of intro references Marshall's giraffe puppet & mindfulness):

Tricycle: A Field Guide to Right Speech by Oren Jay Sofer

A Fav NVC Primer:

Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication

(see also an interview with book's author, Oren)

"If I had just one book to recommend about interpersonal communication, it would be this one." ~ Rick Hanson, PhD

2nd Sunday Sangha

Free, monthly telepractice (on the second Sunday of each calendar month) — more information available at alternate blog:

streetgiraffes.com

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To find out a bit more About “Street Giraffes” (sangha), I invite you to contact me/Pamela via email: streetgiraffes@gmail.com

More as to Pamela
(a.k.a. @StreetGiraffe), @streetgiraffes
sangha's facilitator/blogger

& my "street giraffe path"

Social Media:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn

Email:

streetgiraffe@gmail

Preparing for Challenging Conversations podcast with @DrYvetteErasmus

When To Speak
& When To Listen 
by Oren Jay Sofer

Hand Model of the Brain, Flip Your Lid - YouTube
& Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)

Honored to have an excerpt from #SayWhatYouMeanBook in @tricyclemag's latest print edition, on "When to Speak and When to Listen.” You have a choice—using it wisely can spell the difference between misunderstanding and meaningful dialogue. https://t.co/DTDkS5HHeK pic.twitter.com/kZMBeFROiP

— Oren Jay Sofer (@orenjaysofer) April 18, 2019

Choice-Points

Navigating Our Dialogic Choice-Points

Handy Handouts
Communication Flow Chart(s):

ZENVC's
Communication Flow Chart

John Kinyon's
Conversation Maps
[NVC-Consciousness / Mindfulness]
Free MYL App:


MediateYourLifeApp.com
(free/gift-economy)

& Communication Flow Chart:

MediateYourLifeApp.com
/resources

Yvette Erasmus, PsyD - Communication Flow Chart:

A convenient way to explore Street Giraffe, a.k.a. NVC (relational applications of nonviolence):
Conversations from the Heart --
free podcast / Q&A

Streetify

Other NVC Learning Venues

Learn NVC

Other NVC Learning Venues

CNVC.org

NVC Academy

Cup of Empathy – YouTube

John Kinyon‘s Across the Aisle,
Healing & Reconciliation
& Conversations Maps (App)

Yvette Erasumus, PsyD‘s
Conversations from the Heart:
Weekly Q&A Coaching Call,
YouTube & Blog

ZENVC's The Ongo Book 2.0

“For many years, in my own evolution and teaching, it has been very clear to me that, in order to actualize our spiritual evolution, we need the support of a community who share our vision and values. The Ongo Book provides a practical support for this vision.”

Robert Gonzales

Founder of the Center for Living Compassion and former board president of the Center for Nonviolent Communication 

NVC Mediation

Learn NVC Mediation:

John Kinyon:

Free/Fridays: Across the Aisle
& Reconciliation & Healing –
johnkinyon.com/events

MediateYourLifeApp.com
& handouts

Facebook community:
facebook.com/groups/nvcmediation

NVC Mediation
&/or Mediate One’s Life:
Referrals

Other NVC Learning Venues

Taking the 3rd Chair

Intro to NVC Mediation

streetgiraffes.com/nvc-mediation

Follow Pamela via social media:

Facebook

@StreetGiraffe

&/or @MediateOnesLife

NVC in the News

Street Dispatches

Blogs I Follow

  • BayNVC
  • Work Collaboratively
  • Blog – Mediate Your Life
  • Focusing Resources
  • The Fearless Heart
  • Connection Gem of the Week
  • Sarah Peyton

Politics & NVC

Marshall Rosenberg as quoted by Oren Jay Sofer in "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication" (p. 8 of intro)

Newt Bailey (@nmbailey): “I have a sense that 90% of Nonviolent Communication is about ‘Self-Connection.’ When using this expression, I’m referring to the practice or process that lives at the root of Inbal Kashtan’s Tree of Life diagram…” (continues)

Inbal Kashtan’s Tree of Life 
at the U.N.

(note insignia, upper right hand corner)

"Giraffe is a language of requests; Jackal is a language of demands."

AnimatedFoxes

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Street Giraffe State-o’-Mind (Facebook page/cache)

The Dialogue, 1866 - Julia Margaret Cameron
The Dialogue, 1866 – Julia Margaret Cameron
“True dialogue can only happen if I enter the conversation willing to be changed by it. If I am unwilling to change, to be affected sufficiently to consider options new to me, on what grounds am I expecting the other person to change?” ~ Miki Kashtan
“NVC is an awareness discipline masquerading as a communication process.” ~ Kit Miller of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
“If you want to know what the soup smells like, it’s better not to stick your head in it.” – Eugene Gendlin
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BayNVC

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

Work Collaboratively

Dian Killian, Collaborative Communication

Blog – Mediate Your Life

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

Focusing Resources

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

The Fearless Heart

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

Connection Gem of the Week

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

Sarah Peyton

Pathways in Nonviolent Communication & NVC Mediation

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