Compassion for Your Addictions Holds the Key to Lasting Change

Compassion for Your Addictions

Examining our addictions can help us to get more in touch with our needs - that which connects us with life.  

Feelings and needs are at the heart of Nonviolent Communication (NVC).  Needs are what connect us with life - with our life-force energy. 

Go here for this post by NVC Certified Trainer Ceri Buckmaster:  Compassion for Your Addictions Holds the Key to Lasting Change.  

What have you learned from examining your addictions?  Please post below.  

Plus go here for Ceri Buckmaster on her work with Extinction Rebellion:  Allowing Something to Flourish:  Supporting Nonviolent Social Action!  

Go here for more from the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019.  

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Allowing Something to Flourish – Supporting Nonviolent Social Action!

Extinction Rebellion Demo in London

In this post, NVC Certified Trainer Ceri Buckmaster explores her involvement in applying Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social movements, and particularly to Extinction Rebellion.  

Extinction Rebellion were unique in that they approached NVC with a request for training and support in nonviolence and de-escalation.  Ceri talks about her own experience of involvement in organising and leading these trainings, sharing NVC skills with several hundred people. 

Go here to read this post by Ceri Buckmaster on using NVC with Extinction Rebellion.  Many thanks to Ceri and to NVC-UK.  

You can help make a difference.  Go here for more from the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019.

Please leave your comments below and please share this with your networks.  Thanks.  

See also:  A Day in the Life of an Extinction Rebellion Protester.  

Ceri Buckmaster runs workshops and supports people and organisations in conflict through mediation and setting up systems to deal with conflict long term. 

Her sharing of NVC rests on the 4 pillars of:

• Building a culture of Consent,
• Raising awareness of power and privilege,
• Finding ways of embracing and transforming conflict and,
• Holding space for grief and mourning.

She also supports people to create more robust relationships based on transparency, openness, and mutual care. All of her work promotes self-care, care for the other, and care for ‘us’ and our environment.