@StreetGiraffe
A bit more as to Pamela (a.k.a. @StreetGiraffe), streetgiraffes.com facilitator/blogger
Follow me @StreetGiraffe (more personal Twitter account of @streetgiraffes facilitator)
My "street giraffe" path...
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) Profile
streetgiraffe.com
Learn More as to Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?
"Street Giraffe" (term coined by Marshall Rosenberg) = Naturalizing/Colloquial NVC
Also synonymous w/ NVC Consciousness - “This means prioritizing the consciousness over the form…” [OFNR] ~ Miki Kashtan
Approaches to NVC
More as to Street Giraffes sangha/telepractice
About.me/PamelaBeck - teaching what I most need to learn (photo of my brother & myself, from long ago)
Say It Right - Katy Butler (Tricycle magazine article where I first encountered & became intrigued by NVC)
ZENVC's Communication Flow Chart (next milestone/step on my path where I first grasped being in the flow of NVC consciousness) via ZENVC.org/handouts
What is "Nonviolent" about Nonviolent Communication? (influential in making sense of the meaning of & inspiration for NVC's counterintuitive name)
Key NVC skill: "Wanting Fully Without Attachment" (perhaps the most crucial/cornerstone essay -- referencing NVC's 'raison d'etre' -- on my journey)
Wanting Fully Without Attachment [PDF]
What is Mediate One's Life? (most crucial skills or toolkit -- set of ten maps --towards integration)
3Chairs Conversations Project: A Critical Mass of People Using Empathic Conversation for Healing Our Divides and Working Together | John Kinyon
Fav NVC App - MediateYourLifeApp.com
Pivotal interview (offered insight, as to being a heterodox practitioner): Richard Stengel on Nelson Mandela & Nonviolence
Stengel re: Mandela, "he would say: 'That’s a tactic, that’s not a principle'” (near bottom of page re: nonviolence)
To streetify (my heterodox / colloquial approach to NVC)
Most Recent Blog Posts
Giraffe Symbolism - Origin Story
About streetgiraffes.com (sangha/blog)
A bit more as to our NVC telepractice
streetgiraffes.com (link to my primary, most resource-rich blog)
Giraffe/Jackal Ears (symbolic of translating or adopting a nonviolent approach to communication)
Additional streetgiraffes.com links (re: blog/telepractice -- for navigational ease)
An alternate, quite skillful & free NVC telepractice which models "street giraffe" | YvetteErasmus.com
Getting to the Heart of the Matter (YvetteErasmus.com's Communication Flow Chart [Dropbox PDF])
Upcoming NVC "growing edge" opportunities (Facebook page)
@streetgiraffes (Twitter)
@streetgiraffes (Instagram)
@streetgiraffes (Facebook)
On Nonviolence
MLK (quote re: ethos of nonviolence): “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly..."
Time mag: 5 Things Written by Martin Luther King Jr. That Everyone Should Read, According to Experts
What is conscious communication? (a.k.a. Nonviolent Communication or NVC)
Note: Observations, Feelings, Needs & Requests (in piece above)
Five easy ways to integrate NVC anywhere/everywhere: 1) Presence; 2) Observing; 3) Feelings Awareness; 4) Needs-Consciousness & 5) Gratitude
What is unique to NVC: Shifting to Needs Consciousness
Hint to grasping NVC/needs-consciousness - PLATO
Learn more as to Nonviolent Communication
Other NVC Learning Venues
NVC in the News (Facebook Page)
How to Mediate One's Life & "3rd Chair" Conversations (cache of videos/essays)
Mediate One's Life consults
@MediateOnesLife (Twitter)
Any further inquiries? Please contact Pamela via streetgiraffes@gmail.com
Climate, Politics & Nonviolent Communication
@climatista (Twitter re: climate)
Rilke (quote re: orienting towards inquiry): "And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..."
