Pop-Up Practice: Direct Compassionate Communication (Wed, June 25th)

Description

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We’ll explore basic concepts for beginners as well as applied practice opportunities for advanced practitioners based on the makeup and needs of the group.

Please make a donation based on your resource capacity.

How to access the session:

An email with Zoom link will be sent to the email you register with at the time of registration and again with a reminder email 30 minutes before the session.

What is Direct Compassionate Communication?

Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) is deeply aligned with the spirit of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a practice developed by Marshall Rosenberg that centers honest expression and empathetic listening. While NVC offers a structured approach to naming observations, feelings, needs, and requests, DCC builds on this foundation with a more embodied, heart-forward commitment to showing up for one another in truth and tenderness.

DCC is:

Direct – It invites us to be brave enough to be straightforward and name what’s real, to say the hard things with clarity and integrity, and to receive truth without defensiveness.
Compassionate – It is rooted in empathy and a deep respect for the humanity in ourselves and each other.
Communication – It strengthens our collective resilience through real-life practice—roleplay, scenario practice, and intentional dialogue that help us move through tension toward transformation that transmutes conflict.
Relational – It encourages openness, curiosity, care, and repair – it allows us all to take ownership of our part!

DCC is not a system, a step-by-step process, a training module, a hierarchy, or a technique to control outcomes.

Instead, it is a way of being.
A practice.
A remembering.

It’s about honoring the sacredness of connection by meeting one another with open hearts and honest words. In this work, we’re not trying to “win” communication—we’re trying to be human together. And from that space, healing becomes possible.