Gina Cenciose, Certified NVC Trainer:

In this inspiring video, Gina Cenciose, Certified Trainer and Inner Relationship Focusing Guide and Instructor, offers an in-depth view of the distinctions and similarities between NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing (also known as IRF and Focusing).

Included in the video are:

- Two guided exercises:
- Sensing into the Qualities of Presence in the Body

- A Guided Focusing Attunement





- Discussion of the 4-stages of Inner Relationship Focusing:
- Coming In

- Making Contact

- Deepening Contact

- Coming Out

- An outline of the roles in a Focusing session, including:
- Companion

- Focuser

The following distinctions between NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing are covered:

- NVC focuses on feelings and needs

- IRF promotes connection to the body's felt sense

- NVC frequently asks the question, "What is alive in you?"

- IRF offers a way to situate yourself with what is alive

- NVC expression uses the model of Observation, Feeling, Need and Request

- IRF expression uses presence language as the container for what is arising inside

- NVC explores self-empathy

- IRF explores Self-in-Presence = acknowledging and accompanying what is present, not merging or becoming

- NVC = I feel angry

- IRF = I'm sensing something in me that feels angry

- NVC - the companion offers empathic reflection in the form of a question

- IRF - the companion offers reflective listening in the form of a statement

Keywords:

- feelings

- needs

- presence

- self empathy

- connection

- healing

- personal growth

- self compassion

- self talk

- focusing

- Gina Cenciose