“Communication is to relationship what breathing is to life.” Virginia Satir
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Because we work with such a diversity of organizations we provide a wide range of presentations, speaking topics, programs and services to meet many different needs.
We have a dynamic three hour presentation and an intensive 16 hour training program on Nonviolent Compassionate Communication. Frequently we tailor-make programs or presentations to fit your organizations unique needs. Compensation for trainings is determined on the basis of the organization’s ability to contribute. We even have
some scholarship funding available to organizations without a budget for such training.
Our Seminars:
- Prepare selected personnel to provide our training within your organization
- Involve the participants in applying the training to the most frequently encountered on- the- job real life communicationchallenges.
- Have a “Basic Skills Program” and additional modules customized to meet specific organizational needs.
Other services we provide:
Mediation/conflict resolution including:
1. Interdepartmental conflict
2. Interpersonal conflict
3. Customer disputes.
4. Air clearing
5. Termination disputes
Organizational development including:
1. Make meetings more effective.
2. Solve particular systems problems.
3. Teambuilding.
4. Gossip reduction
5. Increasing creativity/productivity
6. Diversity training
7. Sexual Harassment training
8. Performance evaluations that maximize morale and learning
9. Customer relations training
10. Internal Communication Coaching and Training
11. Negotiation & Dialogue Training
Community Building and Developing Programs:
1. Starting from Scratch – Initiating, building and maintaining Partnership Communities
2. Healing Old Hurts within established communities- Helping Communities get through difficult times of change, political difficulty and trauma
3. Converting from Old Paradigms to Compassionate Partnership organizational systems
4. Intentional community development
Kelly has a ten minute demo video tape, with excerpts from some of his talks. This tape might be useful for anyone who wants to book a speaking engagement or training but does not know Kelly, and would like a taste of his style.
To receive a video tape please contact us at: Kelly@LanguageOfCompassion.com
Call Kelly to book a Speaking Engagement or Presentation
Some of Kelly’s Speaking Titles:
- Don’t Be Nice, Be Real – Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others, a book by Kelly Bryson MFT
- Nonviolent Communication(sm) – A Language of Compassion
- Empathy Has No Enemy
- Compassion vs. Coercion
- The Power of Innocence
- 21st Century Relationships
- Being Me and Loving You
- Celebrating your Selfullness
- Promote Power – Forget Force
- Everyday Passion
- Passionate Creating
- Life Enriching Education
- How to Stay Nonviolent in a Violent World!
- How to Parent without Punishment (Or Rewards!)
- How to Stay Fearless in a Fearful World
I also have given many Sunday Morning “Sermons†for churches of all denominations
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| Differentiating observations from evaluations | 1 |
Differentiating feeling from other forms of communication |
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Identifying our needs |
3 |
| Expressing requests in present-positive-action language |
4 |
| Receiving the feelings & needs being express through messages of others |
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| Liberating ourselves from slave morality | 7 |
| Connection with needs being expressed through moralistic judgments |
7 |
| Fully expressing anger | 8 |
| Translating static language to process language | 8 |
| Translating “Amtssprache” to language acknowledging responsibility for our actions |
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| Accepting responsibility for our actions | 10 |
| Transforming “deserve” into Nonviolent Communication |
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| Expressing how we are and what we are requesting | 11 |
| Building a feeling vocabulary | 11 |
| Expressing needs in intimate and work relationships |
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| Expressing ourselves honestly in difficult situations |
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| Accepting responsibility for our feelings | 14 |
| Differentiating requests from demands | 15 |
| Empathetically receiving how people are and what they are requesting |
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| Empathy with ourselves | 16 |
| Empathy with others in distress | 17 |
| Empathy with people who are angry | 18 |
| Empathizing now with people you weren’t able to empathize with then |
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| Empathy when people attribute responsibility to you for their feelings |
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| Empathy with messages we have been afraid to receive |
19 |
| Empathy with “No”‘ | 19 |
| Painful memories | 21 |
| Expression and receiving gratitude | 30 |
| Celebrating the power we have to enrich life | 30 |
| Identifying the unfulfilled needs generating our thoughts |
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| Expressing requests in positive action language | N |
| Differentiating empathic responses from other responses |
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| Responding empathetically when we haven’t met the needs of others |
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| Expressing needs that are not easy to express | W |
| Fully expressing anger | X |
| Translating static evaluations into process evaluations |
Y |
| Bringing conversations back to life | Z |
| Deepening intimate relationships | 5.e |
| Healing old pain | 6.f |
| Hearing and saying, “No” | 7.g |
| Differentiating “responsibility to” and “responsibility for” |
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| Expressing requests to groups | 10.j |
| Exchanging money in harmony with nonviolent communication |
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