Compassionate Communication Workbook

I’m guessing you’d like some relief from the frustration, pain, and anger that you experience in relationships with others and yourself.

You might have tried various approaches to working things out – compromising, avoiding, defending yourself, offering advice, demanding a change, or just agreeing to avoid an argument.

These approaches don’t allow you to take care of yourself honestly and directly while at the same time considering the other person. They don’t lead to a resolution for all through a new understanding and clear requests.

What does working with this guidebook offer that helps?

1. Awareness of what keeps the patterns going

   When you start to see how your usual way of responding contributes to negative spirals, it’s easier to stop doing what doesn’t work.

2. A Shift in perspective and understanding

   When you realize that at a deeper level, what people say and do is about them and their needs, life becomes much easier. Integrating the concept of universal human needs, you see the motivation behind your own actions and those of others. This gives you a place to start in accessing compassion.

3. Skills that help you create the understanding and respect you want in your relationships.

   When you realize how often you rely on assumptions, blame, judgments, analyses, and vague requests or even demands to work through relationships, it’s easy to see how and why they don’t serve you.

   When you learn to say what happened without your interpretation of it, own your feelings as coming from your needs, and indicate what specific do-able action would help meet those needs, it’s easier for others to hear you and easier to get what you need.

The Compassionate Communication workbook presents key elements of mindfulness practice and nonviolent communication in a simple straightforward format. I wrote it to help you find healing and understanding with yourself and others so you can create a deeply satisfying life.

What does the Compassionate Communication workbook include?

1. 17 exercises combining the consciousness and skills of mindfulness and Compassionate Communication.

   View examples of two exercises.

2. A simple and digest-able presentation of basic concepts in Compassionate Communication and mindfulness.

   View a sample page.

3. An overview of Compassionate Communication with helpful reference handouts.

   View the table of contents.

Purchase

Electronic (ebook) version	$20
Paper version (includes shipping)	$26