Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:

Uncover what prevents you from asking for everything you want without fear. The class includes daily practices for ongoing skill building. Listen to this exciting audio with Miki Kashtan and gain a greater sense of power in your life as you learn to ask for what you want and deepen your connection with others.

Themes of the course, Creating the Life You Want With Powerful Requests, include:Part 1 - Why is it Hard to Ask for What I Want?

Explore the internal and interpersonal dynamics that make asking for what we want the most challenging aspect of self-expression in NVC. This session focuses on how we can increase our power with everyone we interact with by learning to make requests that connect to a purpose (need); by making our requests specific; and by ensuring the request is in the present.

Part 2 - Overcoming Our Fear of "No"

We are used to seeing "NO"to our request as the end of a conversation. In this session we will learn why it's hard to hear a "NO" to our requests and how to transform our response so we can truly see "NO" as the beginning of dialogue.

Part 3 - Overcoming Our Fear of a Half-hearted "Yes"

When we want something to happen, it can be very tempting to accept someone's YES to our requests even when we sense it's not really a YES. But we know the high cost of someone's less than wholehearted, free YES, so we don't ask. In this session learn how to make a request in such a way that it's easier for another to say NO, and how to engage with a YES we don't trust.

Part 4 - The Solution Will Find Us if We Focus on Connection

If we gear up to ask for what we want, we usually are quite focused on the outcome. If another person is similarly focused on a different outcome, we can easily fall into an active conflict. In this session, learn to focus, moment by moment, on what will bring closer connection between us and the other person, so that whatever solution arises will emerge from full connection with both parties' needs.

Part 5 - The Dance of Interdependence

In this session, focus on the skills that will allow us to move forward into the amazing project of becoming partners with the other person in reaching for a solution that will work for both of us. Learn how to open our hearts to be affected by the other person's response to our request, and how to speak and make requests in such a way that the other person is more likely to open their heart.

Keywords:

- requests
- connection requests
- demands
- empathy
- exercises/practices
- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- needs
- self empathy
- strategies
- connection
- listening
- relationships
- Miki Kashtan