GROK = To Deeply Understand

10 Tips for Relationship Communication

10 Tips for Relationship Communication

Ten tools and techniques that can support positive, harmonious, and compassionate relationships.

10 Tips for Relationship Communication

Ten tools and techniques that can support positive, harmonious, and compassionate relationships.

The Most Important Need

The Most Important Need

Ever had one of those conversations where all you really wanted was for someone to listen—not to fix you or give you advice, but just to understand where you were...

The Most Important Need

Ever had one of those conversations where all you really wanted was for someone to listen—not to fix you or give you advice, but just to understand where you were...

Got Empathy?

Got Empathy?

In Nonviolent Communication, when we teach empathy, we often begin with the phrase: “Are you feeling (insert feeling guess) because you’re needing (insert need guess)?” Students of NVC know this...

Got Empathy?

In Nonviolent Communication, when we teach empathy, we often begin with the phrase: “Are you feeling (insert feeling guess) because you’re needing (insert need guess)?” Students of NVC know this...

The Celebration Game

The Celebration Game

When we begin personal growth work in the present, one of the most important practices is offering compassion to our past selves. We have all experienced pain, trauma, and difficulty...

The Celebration Game

When we begin personal growth work in the present, one of the most important practices is offering compassion to our past selves. We have all experienced pain, trauma, and difficulty...

Observation as Liberation

Observation as Liberation

Of the four components of Nonviolent Communication, I find observation to be both the most challenging and the most liberating. When I describe only what I can directly observe, I’m...

Observation as Liberation

Of the four components of Nonviolent Communication, I find observation to be both the most challenging and the most liberating. When I describe only what I can directly observe, I’m...

Practicing Empathy with Strangers

Practicing Empathy with Strangers

When I first learned to make empathy guesses using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), it felt awkward and unnatural — almost like learning a foreign language. I would say things to my...

Practicing Empathy with Strangers

When I first learned to make empathy guesses using Nonviolent Communication (NVC), it felt awkward and unnatural — almost like learning a foreign language. I would say things to my...

FREE GROK Starter Kit

Download your FREE GROK Starter Kit

Share the fundamentals of empathy—playfully—with free, printable Feelings and Needs cards + games.

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