Pamela / @StreetGiraffe

Pamela / @StreetGiraffe has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in August 2020. The social media accounts linked to from Pamela / @StreetGiraffe are: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Email, Substack, Threads, X, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, streetgiraffe has populated their site with "Street Giraffe" (term coined by Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD) = Naturalizing/Colloquial NVC, Also synonymous w/ NVC Consciousness - Miki Kashtan: “This means prioritizing the consciousness over the form…” [OFNR], About My "Experiments with Truth", I invite you to follow me @StreetGiraffe, What Is “Nonviolent” about Nonviolent Communication?, Gandhi - The Philosophy of Nonviolence (YouTube), Satyagraha - "holding firmly to truth" or "truth force", Principles of Nonviolence w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), How to Embody Nonviolent Power w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), Streetify (e.g. NVC-consciousness, colloquial NVC, discernment as to 'one's own lane' vis-a-vis conversational choice-points, etc.), Top Three Ways of Annoying People with your NVC [+ How To Prevent Them] w/ Cup of Empathy's Marianne (YouTube), Where Nonviolent Communication Can Go Wrong & Get Toxic w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), Naturalizing NVC w/ Miki Kashtan, PhD (YouTube), [Perspective-Taking] Communication Flow Chart, Triad "3Chairs" Model of Conversation & Consciousness [PDF], Cultivating Fluency via "3Chairs" Perspective-Taking: (Free) Mediate Your Life App, MYL's Conflict Maps Overview [PDF], A bit more as to my "street giraffe" path, Step #1 - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review / Right Speech w/ catalyst Katy Butler's "Say It Right" [PDF], Step #2 - Cornerstone: NVC's Communication Flow Chart, Step #3 - Living Energy of Needs - Orienting towards "Beloved Divine Energy" [MBR] -- akin to prana (life force) in yogic tradition -- of Universal Human Needs, Step #4 - Wanting Fully Without Attachment - Orienting Nonviolently, Step #5 - Becoming a "3Chairs" Practitioner - Orienting Beyond Egocentricity's Gravitational Pull, Step #6 - Focusing - Orienting Intrapersonally (a.k.a. parts work), About streetgiraffes.com (my blog/sangha), Most Recent Blog Posts, Questions? Feedback? E.g. broken links? A celebration or appreciation to share? Constructive criticism? Feel free to reach out via streetgiraffes@gmail.com, Additional links/information, Conversations from the Heart podcast, Conversations from the Heart ♥️ (via Apple 🍏 podcasts), Learn More from Yvette Erasmus, PsyD, Cup of Empathy videos, Cup of Empathy (YouTube channel), John Kinyon | Mediate Your Life - Learning Materials (App & Guidebook), MediateYourLifeApp.com/resources, On Actually Utilizing Mindfulness Apps - "Do a lot of suffering..." via 10% Happier podcaster Dan Harris (YouTube), John.Kinyon | Free events, Instagram, Facebook, etc | Linktree, Mediate Your Life Podcast - John Kinyon | Mediate Your Life, More as to Mediating One's Life, Other NVC Learning Venues, NVC Mediation | Facebook group, Quiz - Do you Know Your Listening Archetype? - Dr. Yvette Erasmus, Approaches to NVC, Learn More as to Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?, Teaching what one most needs to learn... (photo at left of my "MAGA" bro & me, as kids), More as to Street Giraffes sangha/telepractice, Say It Right - Katy Butler (magazine article where I first encountered & became intrigued by NVC) - no paywall, Say it Right - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (link to original magazine piece where I was first heard of Nonviolent Communication), 1st NVC Communication Flow Chart (that I encountered in 2009), ZENVC's Communication Flow Chart (next milestone/step on my path how I first grasped being in the flow of NVC consciousness) via Catherine & Jesse of ZENVC.org/handouts, NVC Communication Flow Charts: Dialogue & Choice Points, Living Energy of Needs, Linnaea Marvell's NVC ("Magic Wand") Communication Flow Chart, What is "Nonviolent" about Nonviolent Communication? (influential in making sense of the meaning of & inspiration for NVC's counterintuitive name), Cornerstone NVC idea: "Wanting Fully Without Attachment" (perhaps the most crucial essay -- referencing NVC's 'raison d'etre' -- on my journey), Wanting Fully Without Attachment [PDF], Self-Inquiry & the 3rd Chair - Mediate One's Life w/ Peace/Love/Joy, Key NVC skill: 3Chairs-Conversations (NVC Mediation has been indispensable to my grasping/integrating relational applications of nonviolence), Focusing, Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF), What is Mediate One's Life? (most crucial skill 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, Learn "Mediate Your Life" skills: "Across the Aisle" & "Healing/Reconciliation", 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), Giraffe Symbolism - Origin Story, Giraffe/Jackal Ears (symbolic of translating or adopting a nonviolent approach to communication), More as to "Street Giraffe" - a term coined by Marshall Rosenberg - re: naturalizing NVC, A bit more as to our NVC telepractice, An alternate, quite skillful & free Q&A teleclass which models "street giraffe" | YvetteErasmus.com, Getting to the Heart of the Matter (YvetteErasmus.com's Communication Flow Chart [Dropbox PDF]), @streetgiraffes (Instagram), allmylinks.com /streetgiraffe, Upcoming NVC "growing edge" opportunities (Facebook page), NVC in the News (Facebook Page), How to Embody Nonviolent Power w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), 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, On Nonviolent Communication, Nonviolence & Ahimsa, 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, How to Work with Anger Nonviolently w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), Additional streetgiraffes.com links (re: blog/telepractice -- for navigational ease), Other Practitioners of Nonviolence & NVC, streetgiraffes.com (link to my primary, most resource-rich blog), Learn more as to Nonviolent Communication, Connected Conversation, "Mediate Ones Life" Defined (& Resources), How to Mediate One's Life & "3rd Chair" Conversations (cache of videos/essays), Mediate One's Life consults, @MediateOnesLife (Twitter), Donate - NVC Rusinga School, Home - NVC Rusinga School, Kenyan NVC school's Facebook page, Any further inquiries? Please contact Pamela via streetgiraffes@gmail.com, Climate, Politics & Nonviolent Communication, @climatista (re: climate), How to Handle Triggering Conversations w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), Thoughts on Putin, Genocide, War & Personal Growth w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), @thecitizeness (re: civics), How to Talk about Politics with Friends w/ Yvette Erasmus, PsyD (YouTube), 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...".