Parenting Series: The Importance of Self-Empathy
Vintage NVC
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14m
Inbal Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Inbal offers parents and anyone with children in their life a lucid discussion of the important role self-empathy plays in creating healthy, supportive relationships.
Are the strategies you're using right now supporting your goals for the relationships you want with your children? In this introduction to the NVC principle of self-empathy, Inbal uses an interactive dialogue and simple instruction to help you:
- Use self-empathy to connect to your feelings and needs with an open heart
- Overcome cultural conditioning that confuses feelings with blame, judgment and evaluation
- Separate your needs from choices you make to meet these needs
- Start making new choices that are more likely to meet your needs
Who should watch this learning resource:
- Parents and grandparents
- Educators and child care providers
- Anyone else with children in their life
Keywords:
- Inbal Kashtan
- empathy
- presence
- self empathy
- compassion
- healing
- love
- personal growth
- self compassion
- self talk
- conflict resolution
- families
- parenting
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