4-Step Communication Technique

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share a powerful 4-step communication technique that you can use to respond to someone when they say something triggering or activating. It comes from the work of Non-Violent Communication.

If you'd like to go deeper into the work of mindful communication, I highly suggest the book, Say What You Mean, by Oren Sofer. Click here for the link.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host
0:07.9	Cori Muscara and before we go into today's episode I want to share an update about yesterday's episode,
0:15.1	where I shared three tips for social anxiety.
0:18.6	I'm very excited to share that I'm now calling those three techniques the barbecue method and if you haven't
0:25.4	listened to the episode check it out we talk about the breath body posture and
0:30.6	questions be B B Q and you can use the barbecue method while you're having an awkward
0:36.9	conversation with someone at a barbecue or cocktail hour. I always love
0:41.9	clever acronym so I wanted to give you this update. And I hope thinking
0:45.9	about it as the barbecue method makes it a little bit more sticky when you might need
0:50.5	it the most. So have some fun using that. On to today's episode, I'm going to
0:56.3	share a simple, helpful communication technique that is especially good when responding to something frustrating or triggering.
1:05.0	More to come on that in a moment.
1:07.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Yes. Okay, so let's talk communication.
1:35.0	There are a lot of things that go into effective communication, listening, speaking,
1:42.0	being able to put up boundaries, connecting with people.
1:46.2	It's a very deep and rich topic.
1:48.6	I've talked about it a bit on this podcast.
1:51.0	Simple things like listen to understand, active constructive
1:55.3	responding, and really into practical tips that you can easily bring into a
2:01.9	conversation or frameworks that you can think about.
2:05.2	And the one I'm going to share today is one of those.
2:08.2	It comes from nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg.
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