NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing
Self Empathy
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2h 48m
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
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