Making Your Empathy Guesses More Natural
Beyond NVC Basics
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Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer:
Join Mary Mackenzie as she offers a simple approach incorporating NVC into everyday conversations. Her observation is that sometimes speaking NVC empath guesses of feelings and needs can feel un-natural or robotic. A possible solution is to slightly shift the way a person applies their NVC skills, focusing on the flow of conversation in a modern way. This technique has become known as Street Giraffe. Her short video is packed with useful ideas that are sure to become useful tools you can add to your repritoir.
- Mary Mackenzie
- applying NVC
- integrating NVC
- awareness
- Trainer Tip
- communication
- intuition
- relationship building
- street giraffe
- empathy
- empathy guess
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