@StreetGiraffe
A bit more as to Pamela (a.k.a. @StreetGiraffe), streetgiraffes.com facilitator/blogger
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) Profile
My "street giraffe" path...
More as to Street Giraffes sangha/telepractice
Key NVC skill: "Wanting Fully Without Attachment" (perhaps the most crucial essay -- referencing NVC's 'raison d'etre' -- on my journey)
Wanting Fully Without Attachment [PDF]
What is Mediate One's Life?
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)
What is "Nonviolent" about Nonviolent Communication? (influential in making sense of the meaning of & inspiration for NVC's counterintuitive name)
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
Most Recent Blog Posts
Learn more as to Nonviolent Communication
About streetgiraffes.com (sangha/blog)
A bit more as to our NVC telepractice
An alternate, free NVC telepractice which models "street giraffe" | YvetteErasmus.com
Additional, upcoming NVC "growing edge" opportunities (Facebook page)
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: 5 Things Written by Martin Luther King Jr. That Everyone Should Read, According to an Experts
Giraffe Symbolism - Origin Story
Giraffe/Jackal Ears
streetgiraffes.com
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
Additional streetgiraffes.com links (re: blog/telepractice -- for navigational ease)
How to Mediate One's Life & "3rd Chair" Conversations (cache of videos/essays)
Mediate One's Life consults
Contact
@MediateOnesLife (Twitter)
Other NVC Learning Venues
NVC in the News (Facebook Page)
@streetgiraffes (Facebook)
@streetgiraffes (Instagram)
@streetgiraffes (Twitter)
Climate, Politics & Nonviolent Communication
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..."
Follow me @StreetGiraffe (more personal Twitter account of @streetgiraffes facilitator)