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24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nCarl Rogers (1902\u20131987) was an influential American psychologist and a founder of the humanistic psychology movement. He developed the person-centered (or client-centered) approach, which emphasizes the individual&#8217;s inherent drive toward self-actualization\u2014the desire to grow and reach their highest potential\u2014within a supportive, non-judgmental environment.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nREF: American Psychological Association (APA)\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Carl Rogers\u2019<\/span>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nnon-coercive approach\u2014\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\ncomprising active listening,\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nunconditional positive regard,\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nand empathy \n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"> <\/div>\n\n\u2014is designed precisely to create a safe &#8220;psychological climate&#8221; where individuals feel secure enough to explore,\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nand eventually bring into consciousness,\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nfeelings and experiences\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nthat were previously hidden or denied.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers believed this process was essential for healing, as it enables the person to re-integrate their self-concept to better match their actual experiences.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nCore Components of His Theory:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nSelf-Actualization:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers believed humans have a natural motive to grow and fulfill their potential.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nSelf-Concept:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThis is how an individual views themselves (self-image) and who they want to be (ideal self).\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nCongruence:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nMental health is achieved when a person&#8217;s self-image aligns closely with their ideal self and real-life experiences.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nUnconditional Positive Regard:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nCrucial for growth, this is the idea that people need to be accepted and loved for who they are, without judgment, which helps them feel free to change and develop.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThe Fully Functioning Person:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers described someone who is open to experience, lives in the moment, and trusts their own feelings as a fully functioning person.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nPerson-Centered Approach:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers transformed the relationship by moving away from directive, expert-driven approaches. Instead, he promoted a model where the therapist provides empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard to help clients achieve their own self-understanding and development.\u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<br \/>\n1. Key Writings by Carl Rogers\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nOn Becoming a Person:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nA Therapist&#8217;s View of Psychotherapy (1961): This book offers the most comprehensive view of his philosophy. Several essays, particularly &#8220;What it Means to Become a Person,&#8221; discuss how, in a non-judgmental environment, clients can acknowledge their &#8220;unconscious&#8221; or &#8220;denied&#8221; experiences.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nClient-Centered Therapy:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nIts Current Practice, Implications and Theory (1951):\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThis work outlines how the &#8220;self&#8221; grows.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nIt highlights that when individuals are safe, they can accept experiences they previously deemed too threatening to accept into their awareness.&#8221;Active Listening&#8221; (1957) with Richard E. Farson:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nIn this seminal paper, Rogers explains how non-coercive listening allows people to clarify their feelings and gain a fuller picture of what they are experiencing.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n&#8220;Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy&#8221; (1946):\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers describes the process of &#8220;achieving insight,&#8221; noting it involves &#8220;the acceptance of hitherto denied elements of the self, and a reformulating of the self-concept&#8221;.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n2. Research and Concepts Illuminating the Value of this Process\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThe Organismic Valuing Process: Research on this concept shows that when individuals are not subjected to external &#8220;conditions of worth,&#8221; they can trust their internal, often unconscious, feelings to make constructive choices.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nRogers&#8217; View of the &#8220;Unconscious&#8221;:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nLater commentators like Brian Thorne (2003) noted that Rogers respected the &#8220;unconscious&#8221; but refused to interpret it for the client. Instead, he preferred to create conditions where the client could allow hidden feelings to emerge, uncoerced.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nProcess of Change Research: Rogers&#8217; research, often using filmed sessions, showed that the &#8220;non-directive&#8221; approach led to individuals moving away from rigid, &#8220;blind-spot&#8221; thinking towards more openness and authentic living.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n3. Key Findings on the Value of Inner Insight\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nIncreased Self-Actualization:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThe goal of bringing inner, denied feelings into consciousness is to achieve &#8220;self-actualization&#8221; (maximizing one&#8217;s full potential), which is facilitated by the reduction of internal defense mechanisms.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nGrowth in Self-Awareness:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThe research points to clients becoming &#8220;more open to experiences, less defensive, more democratic, and less authoritarian&#8221;.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nInternal Locus of Evaluation:\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nThe ultimate value is that the individual stops needing external validation, and instead trusts their own internal experience and feelings to guide their lives.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\nAssociation for the Development of the Person-Centered Approach (ADPCA) publishes research that continues to examine this area of client self-awareness.\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<!--\n\n\n\n\n<p>Would you like to speak and feel fully heard? Would you like to connect to yourself and others more deeply? Do you want to work on developing your empathy skills?<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>An empathy circle is a simple but powerful way for people to connect through structured dialogue, speaking and active listening in small groups. It takes about 15 minutes to understand.<\/p>\n<p>You don't need any special skills or training to be involved.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>It is primarily designed to offer an environment for active listening and creates a space where you can talk and feel heard to your satisfaction about a set topic or whatever is alive for you in the moment.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>You will each have a role in the circle and take turns switching roles throughout the circle.<\/p>\n<p>One role is the speaker who will speak to an active listener.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Everyone else takes the role of a silent listener during each turn and there is also a facilitator role who will also participate, keep time and help keep everyone in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n-->\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>Link:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/how-to\/\">Empathy Circle &#8220;How-To&#8221;<\/a><\/h4>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4>Link:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/carl-rogers?#NYC-PTSD\">Guidelines (NYC-PTSD)<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-83eebf2\" data-id=\"83eebf2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b938e2e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b938e2e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-da432df\" data-id=\"da432df\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9721884\" data-id=\"9721884\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc87ede elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bc87ede\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: left; border: thin solid black; padding: 2%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; font-weight: 500; background-color: #fff; color: #000; font-size: 110%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<h1><\/h1>\nThe two main criteria in practicing Marshall Rosenberg&#8217;s NVC:\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n1. Are you speaking and acting from your own experience?\naka: It&#8217;s not about &#8220;fixing&#8221; someone else.\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n2. Is your practice contributing to well-being? aka: Do No Harm (&#8220;Ahimsa&#8221;) When harm occurs accidentally, NVC can be used for repair work and healing.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________________________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\nQUESTION: &#8220;When should NVC not be applied for a reason of impaired physical or mental health?\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\nANSWER: &#8221; I cannot think of a situation in which self-compassion, self-empathy, and self-connection is not appropriate. ~Marshall Rosenberg\n<div style=\"height: 54px;\"><\/div>\n<h1>Carl Rogers 3 core conditions:<\/h1>\nEmpathy, Congruence and Unconditional positive regard.\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n1) Empathic understanding: the counsellor trying to understand the client&#8217;s point of view.\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n2) Congruence: the counsellor being a genuine person.\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n3) Unconditional positive regard: the counsellor being non-judgmental.\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<h1>[Listening]<\/h1>\n&#8230; means entering the private perceptual world of the other and becoming thoroughly at home in it&#8230; It involves being sensitive, moment by moment, to the changing felt meanings which flow in this other person&#8230;. To be with another in this ways means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter anothers world without prejudice&#8230; In some sense it means that you lay aside yourself &#8230;. ~Carl Rogers\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<h1>Empathy is saying to someone:<\/h1>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to be a companion to you in your search and your exploration. I want to know, am I with you? Is this the way it seems to you? Is this the thing you&#8217;re trying to express? Is this the meaning it has for you?&#8221;\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\nSo in a sense I&#8217;m saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m walking with you step by step, and I want to make sure I am with you. Am I with you? So that&#8217;s a little bit of my understanding about empathy.&#8221;\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n~ Carl Rogers\n<div style=\"height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-036b970\" data-id=\"036b970\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-543565a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"543565a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7327cdf\" data-id=\"7327cdf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43d34cd\" data-id=\"43d34cd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d131f06 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d131f06\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: left; border: thin solid black; padding: 2%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; font-weight: 500; background-color: #fff; color: #000; font-size: 110%;\"><div style=\"line-height: 180%; font-size: 105%; text-align: left; margin-left: 1%; margin-right: 1%;\"><div style=\"height: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllAboutRogers\/photos\/a.119653803213884\/119875063191758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4722 size-full\" title=\"Carl Rogers and Leta Hollingworth \" src=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/carl_rogers_pair.jpg\" alt=\"Carl_Rogers and Leta Hollingworth\" width=\"698\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/carl_rogers_pair.jpg 698w, https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/carl_rogers_pair-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><\/p><div style=\"height: 11px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllAboutRogers\/photos\/a.119653803213884\/119875063191758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl Rogers and Leta Hollingworth<\/a><\/p><div style=\"height: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>&#8230;::\u201dEmpathy is the listener&#8217;s effort to hear the other person deeply, accurately, and non-judgmentally. Empathy involves skillful reflective listening that clarifies and amplifies the person\u2019s own experiencing and meaning, without imposing the listener\u2019s own material.&#8217;<br \/>~ Carl Rogers (1902\u20131987)<\/p><hr \/><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"line-height: 170%; font-size: 105%; text-align: left; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;\"><p>..::\u201dI used to think that the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don\u2019t know how to do that. ~ Gus Speth \u2661<\/p><div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><!--<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Life on Earth<\/strong> NEEDS human beings living the transparent, open, all-inclusive Carl Rogers Empathic Life Now! Based on the original teachings and living life example of the Prince of Peace \u2661<\/p>\n<p>...:: \u2661 Love one another, just don't judge! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>--><\/p><div style=\"height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>&#8230;::&#8221;The highest form of human intelligence&#8230; is to observe&#8230; without judgment. ~ Krishnamurti \u2661<\/p><\/div><div style=\"height: 117px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><b>NVC :: OFNR :: OBSERVATION\u2661, Feelings, Needs and Requests<\/b><\/p><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p><strong>OBSERVATION\u2661<\/strong> without evaluation consists of noticing concrete (real) things and actions around us. We learn to distinguish between judgment and what we sense in the PRESENT moment, and to simply OBSERVE what is there (right now).<\/p><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>&#8230;::&#8221; Violence is not merely killing another&#8230; It is violence when we use a sharp WORD&#8230; when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear&#8230; So violence isn&#8217;t merely organized butchery in the name of God&#8230; in the name of society or country&#8230; Violence is much more subtle&#8230; much deeper&#8230; and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.&#8221; ~ Krishnamurti \u2661<\/p><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 110%;\"><p>MRI scans show that after an eight-week course of mindfulness practice, the brain&#8217;s \u201cfight or flight\u201d center, the amygdala, appears to shrink. &#8230; As the amygdala shrinks, the pre-frontal cortex \u2013 associated with higher order brain functions such as awareness, concentration, and decision-making \u2013 becomes thicker (expands).<\/p><div style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 13px;\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/01\/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain\/\">https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/01\/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain\/<\/a><\/p><\/div><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>Please Note: An &#8220;<strong>Empathy Circle<\/strong>&#8221; facilitator \/ trainer can complete the training offered by Edwin Rutsch at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmpathyCircle.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmpathyCircle.com<\/a><\/p><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>Elevated Empathy in adults following childhood trauma: (science)<\/p><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6169872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6169872\/<\/a><\/h5><div style=\"height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div><p>How Empathy is often misunderstood.<br \/>(Holistic Psychology)<\/p><div style=\"font-size: 60%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/the.holistic.psychologist\/posts\/pfbid02p1hT3ae8mpmmpCXNuKsSmHY8Qsreb4RjT8Ez2VtAo6BPFYPixibPDW7nNEhxec7cl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/the.holistic.psychologist\/posts\/pfbid02p1hT3ae8mpmmpCXNuKsSmHY8Qsreb4RjT8Ez2VtAo6BPFYPixibPDW7nNEhxec7cl<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b5f730d\" data-id=\"b5f730d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-99780b4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"99780b4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a73c28\" data-id=\"2a73c28\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-323f14a\" data-id=\"323f14a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-451e80c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"451e80c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: left; border: thin solid black; padding: 2%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; font-weight: 500; background-color: #fff; color: #000; font-size: 110%;\">\n\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feelings<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Big Hint<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch out for &#8220;non-feeling&#8221; words<\/a>&#8230;<\/h2>\nIt is important to choose words that really are feelings.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That&#8217;s the reason for the list<\/a>.\u00a0 If you use words like &#8220;abandoned&#8221; or &#8220;misled&#8221; or &#8220;shunned&#8221; we can prevent ourselves from getting to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;REAL&#8221; feelings<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 17px; background-color: #f4f1e1;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These &#8220;non-feeling&#8221; words are more like accusations or judgments than feelings<\/a>.\u00a0 SOURCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nycnvc.org\/feelings<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4930246\" data-id=\"4930246\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5be762d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default 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style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NYC_PTSD Guidelines:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Trauma is when your reality is neither seen nor acknowledged.&#8221;<br \/>~<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Bessel van der Kolk\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To us, post-traumatic stress is when the shame, isolation, and pain of past trauma are too intense for us to face and process. As a result, the past trauma &#8216;lives&#8217; in a sense, and continues to affect our health, relationships, jobs, bodies, and day-to-day lives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Sharing our traumas in a supportive environment is one avenue for lessening that shame and isolation. Ideally, we can continue to lessen the impact of our past traumas on our present-day lives.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 17px; background-color: #f4f1e1;\" href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/transformation#lifestyle_changes_can_lengthen_telomeres\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifestyle changes can lengthen telomeres.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><b>Group details:<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Peer support groups for helping in recovering from traumatic experience(s).<br \/>All are welcome, and the safety of the group takes priority.\u00a0 Formal diagnosis of PTSD is not required.\u00a0 People with &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; causes of PTSD and\/or &#8220;Complex PTSD&#8221; are also encouraged to join.\u00a0\u00a0The use of &#8220;I statements&#8221; is encouraged.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Please note that neither the organizers nor the other members are acting as &#8220;therapists&#8221;. This is not a substitute for therapy, and the group is intended to support one&#8217;s recovery, not serve as its sole venue.\u00a0 No one will force or push you to &#8220;dig deeper&#8221; into your story. The use of &#8220;I statements&#8221; is encouraged.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>We ask that all members abide by these guidelines\/code of conduct, linked below. Please note that these guidelines apply to meetups as well as to social media etiquette on the meetup websites:<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 7px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/carl-rogers\/#NYC-PTSD\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/carl-rogers\/#NYC-PTSD<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;One must revisit the trauma but one need not relive it.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>~<span style=\"color: #001d35; font-family: 'Google Sans', Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;\">Bessel van der Kolk<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Friends and visitors are welcome but their presence is subject to a majority of members present agreeing to it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Through updating our outdated beliefs about reality we can alter the behaviors that derive from these old beliefs and achieve deep and lasting change. <a href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/transformation\/\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/transformation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Gratitude coffee is always appreciated: \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/Cup.of.Empathy\">https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/Cup.of.Empathy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45a7b66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45a7b66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a name=\"NYC-PTSD\"><\/a>\n<a name=\"guidelines\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"height: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-radius: 20px; text-align: left; border: thin solid black; padding: 2%; margin: 1px; line-height: 180%; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<div style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 95%; font-weight: 600; border-radius: 20px; text-align: center; border: thin solid black; padding: 3%; margin: 1px; line-height: 280%; background-color: darkblue;\">\n<div style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: darkblue; color: #fff; font-size: 140%; text-align: center; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 9px;\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Guidelines for Meetings<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div>(NYC_PTSD)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 29px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\"><b>1)<\/b> Please keep the group discussions confidential.\u00a0 Although our peer led groups are NOT therapy, occasionally participants might be inspired to share vulnerable topics that no one is granted permission to share outside the safety of the group, since that would constitute a violation of group trust.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height: 1px;\"><\/div>\n<b>Related:<\/b>\n<div style=\"height: 1px;\"><\/div>\n<a style=\"font-size: 13px; background-color: #f4f1e1;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiawestern.edu\/eng111\/EmpathicListening.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empathic Listening and recording sessions, Carl Rogers<\/a>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\"><b>2)<\/b> Please do not offer others advice, unless solicited. Advice tends to be judgmental and patronizing. Sharing similar personal experiences, on the other hand, is powerful and highly encouraged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\"><b>3)<\/b> No one at the meeting is playing the role of a &#8216;therapist&#8217;, including organizers or members who may be in a related field. We are all equals, looking for support and community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\"><b>4) <\/b>If you are feeling triggered at any point during the meeting, please do not feel obligated to ask permission to step outside, get some water, take a walk&#8230; whatever it is you need to do.\nWe&#8217;ve all been triggered before. No one will judge you for taking care of yourself.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">(Empathy Circle Example) The speaker does have the option to &#8220;pass&#8221; their turn. by simply asking for a listener, stating they wish to pass, listening to the active listener&#8217;s reflection, then the active listener becomes the new speaker.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">The &#8220;active listener&#8221; also has the option to &#8220;pass&#8221;, and the speaker simply requests another &#8220;listener&#8221; to complete the reflections.\u00a0 Again, no one in the group is playing the role of a therapist, and no one &#8220;prescribes&#8221; the speaker&#8217;s topic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">The speaker is reminded to pause after speaking one or two thoughts (and to refrain from becoming &#8220;overly graphic&#8221;)\u00a0 \u00a0This guideline, to &#8220;pause frequently&#8221; is built into the Empathy Circle process in order to help ease the active listener and the speaker simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">If the speaker does not experience being heard, they simply repeat themselves, without projecting any criticism onto the listener.\u00a0 The speaker can easily re-assemble the essence of a complex thought into parts that are easily understood, and less likely to overwhelm the listener.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">True empathy is all-inclusive with no intention to &#8220;trigger&#8221; anxiety, or &#8220;power over&#8221; an equal peer.\u00a0 True empathy is the antidote to a culture of domination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: left;\"><b>5)<\/b> While sharing, we ask that people refrain from overly graphic descriptions of events in the past. While these are certainly relevant, we are wary of triggering other attendees. Safety comes first. Someone, likely an organizer, will let the speaker know if his or her share is moving too far in that direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<strong style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\">6)\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8220;Cross-talk&#8221; refers to communication that is disruptive to a group&#8217;s purpose (Empathy in a safe space for people to share their experiences). <\/span>\n\n&#8220;Cross-talk&#8221; generally involves: Unsolicited advice or criticism, judging and confronting another equal member who is sharing their own experience.\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\">&#8220;Cross-talk<b>&#8220;<\/b> can feel similar to a &#8220;personal&#8221; violation when an equal member of a trusting circle of friends unknowingly projects their own personal mistaken beliefs onto another equal member in a trusting circle of friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\">Reminder: &#8220;Don&#8217;t take anything personally&#8221;.\n~Don Miguel Ruiz, &#8220;The Four Agreements&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 500;\">&#8220;<\/span>Cross-talk&#8221; can also feel like a betrayal of the trust and connection that is already established within a trusting circle of equals.<\/p>\n&#8220;Cross-talk&#8221; tends to escalate tension between human beings, while empathy tends to\u00a0de-escalate tension, within a willingness to see similarity rather than differences in human beings.\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.2px;\">&#8220;Be impeccable with Your Word&#8221;.<\/span><br style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.2px;\">~Don Miguel Ruiz, &#8220;The Four Agreements&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">In &#8220;Non Violent Communication&#8221; (Empathy), the two main criteria are:<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">1. Are you speaking and acting from your own experience?<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\">aka: It\u2019s not about \u201cfixing\u201d someone else.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">2. Is your practice contributing to well-being?<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 4px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%;\">aka: Do No Harm (\u201cAhimsa\u201d)<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">Related QUESTION: \u201cWhen should NVC (empathy) not be applied for a reason of impaired health or disability?<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500;\">ANSWER: \u201d I cannot think of a situation in which Self-compassion, Self-empathy, and Self-connection is not appropriate.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; height: 34px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 110%; font-weight: 500; text-align: center;\">~Marshall Rosenberg<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; 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