Category: Communication

Practice Compassionate Communication

Enhance relationships with Compassionate Communication or Nonviolent Communication (NVC). supports change on three interconnected levels; within self, between others, and within groups and social systems. NVC greatest impact has been in personal development, relationships, and social change. Read more

Components of Communication
NVC delineates four components of communication:

  • Observations free of evaluations
  • Feelings straight from the heart
  • Needs, values and longings and
  • Requests expressed clearly in positive action language.
Nonviolent Communication

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC

http://capitalnvc.net/main/nvcmodel

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http://capitalnvc.net/main/feelings-inventory

http://capitalnvc.net/main/needs-inventory

What counseling is not? -Infographics

People may have premature idea about counselling without having a true understanding of the concept of counselling.  This is one of the obstacle to seek help from the mental health processionals. Counselling provide a psychological space to explore difficult feelings, Promote self-understanding, facilitate positive change, teach some skills to handle your issues, and helps to improve your relationships and many more. but not listed here…

Barriers to communication

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Assertiveness skill training

Assertiveness training teach you appropriate strategies for identifying and acting on your desires, needs, and opinions while remaining respectful of others. Assertiveness training can be applied to many different personal, interpersonal, academic, health care, and work situations.

Benefits of assertiveness training.

  • You can feel free to express your feelings, thoughts, and desires.
  • You are able to initiate and maintain comfortable relationships with others.
  • You understand, respect and accept differences.
  • you know your rights and resposibility in your communication.
  • You have control over your inappropriate anger.
  • You can able to say no.
  • You have the ability to handle conflct.
  • You can stay calm.
Assertiveness skill training

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Effective communication in therapy

Communication is vital part of therapy, let’s explore which part is essential. Therapy become effective if you learn to use non verbal communication appropriately.

Communication model

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Ref : Mehrabian, A. (1981). Silent Messages: Implicit Communication of Emotions and Attitudes. Wadsworth.