Resource: Empathy Blocker - which one are you? ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER OF OHIO

 

In this Newsletter:

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Video from Elke Haggerty - Translating Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, & Stonewalling
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6 week Practice Group: Staying Connected and Compassionate in Today’s Challenging Times, with Zach Yocum - starts May 2nd
• Communication for Engaged Couples, March 28 & April 4th with Elke Haggerty
• Resource: Empathy Blockers (2-page PDF)
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CCCO Free Offerings: Empathy Calls & Intro to NVC

We hope this newsletter brings you a sense of value, as we share resources and offer programming that we hope meets you where you are in learning and practicing NVC. We hope it provides a sense of community with others on this journey, and are eager to hear how you want to engage and what you need. Please feel free to reach out anytime to info@speakingpeace.org with comments, questions, concerns and suggestions.

 

We invite you to watch Elke’s informative video about Translating Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, & Stonewalling.

If this piques your interest, register for Elke’s Communication for Engaged Couples here or see more information below. Starts March 28!

This program is being offered through Elke’s organization Process Works, and we are proud to share and support her work!

 

Upcoming Practice Group

Staying Connected and Compassionate in Today’s Challenging Times (online)
Saturdays, May 2 - June 6
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST

We are pleased to offer our tiered pricing to make this offering accessible, as well as opportunities for scholarships. Please click the registration link to learn more.

How do we stay self-connected when one event or headline has the potential to disrupt our well being, when political beliefs impact our family or relationships, when differing opinions about world events obscure our ability to see the humanity in others?

This practice group will focus on bringing the processes of NVC into difficult situations by working with self connection, empathy, practicing how to receive hard-to-hear messages and also sharing our heartfelt truth even when it’s challenging to do so.

Participants will work on skills for building capacity and will have the opportunity to work with real situations through guided role plays, which can include simulated conversations around political or ideological differences. This is geared toward participants who have some NVC experience, either having participated in a practice group, attended an NVC Foundations training, or the equivalent.

 REGISTER HERE 

About the trainer: Zach Yocum

Zach attended his first trainings with Marshall Rosenberg nearly 20 years ago. Continuing to study Nonviolent Communication under a variety of trainers, Zach has been teaching and facilitating workshops and practice groups since 2017. Zach strives to share processes that have been deeply impactful in his own life, and to offer skills with real life applicability.

 

Communication for Engaged Couples: Keeping your Intimate Partnership Alive Throughout Marriage

March 28 and April 4, 2026, 9 am – 5 pm MT (11 AM - 7 PM ET)

Register Here: https://www.process-works.ca/product/keeping-your-intimate-partnership-alive/

Facilitator: Elke Haggerty, LL.M., MBA, CNVC Certified Trainer & CALF Certified NVC Trainer

How we handle life challenges and relationship tensions can bring us closer or further apart. This 2-day course, aimed at dating, engaged, or newly married couples, introduces a way to translate criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling into connecting conversations that keep relationships strong.

 Learn More Here 
 

RESOURCES

 

2 Page Resource to Identify Empathy Blockers - this resource is especially great for parents! Download here.

 
 REGISTER HERE 
 

FREE INTRO to NVC: Speak Peace with Compassionate Communication

Every 2nd Sunday of the Month
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST
Online

 REGISTER HERE 
 

Click here to see more of our offerings.

Click here to see our free offerings.

Click here to learn more about our trainers.

In our work to make NVC more accessible, each of our offerings has three different pricing options: subsidized, sustaining, and supportive to others. We encourage you to pay at the level that feels right for you.

 

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