Asheville Compassionate Communication Center

08/12/2025

New Online 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course Starting Monday, Sept 8th from 7-9pm. Learn to speak in a way that you will be heard and listen in a way the other feels heard! https://ashevilleccc.com/cc-courseonline/

An Online 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course Starting Monday, September 8th, 7:00-9:00 pm Eastern Click Here The Compassionate Communication course I attended taught by Jerry Donoghue was invaluable. Like most everyone else, before this course, I found myself occasionally caught in verbal con...

08/28/2023

Can The Communication In Your Relationship Pass This Test? If not, we have a dynamic 8-week Compassionate Communication Course starting Sept 7th. More info:https://bit.ly/2VQHxZM
1. Do you analyze and try to fix your partner’s problems to get your needs met?

2. Do you find yourself repeatedly asking for things to be done that don’t get done?

3. Do you have a hard time expressing feelings or expressing what you want?

4. Do you respond with anger or withdrawal when facing conflicts?

5. Do you think you are right and your partner wrong about various matters?

6. Do you take personally all the judgments directed at you?

7. Do you catch yourself making judgments and feel frustrated with yourself

8. Do you find yourself having lots of arguments or the same ones repeatedly?

9. Does your Partner say this a lot: “I told you that, you just don’t listen to me!”

10. Do you criticize your partner or do the silent treatment to get what you want?

We offer courses, workshops, and private session work for couples and individuals who want to show u

04/26/2023

New 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course Starting Thursday, May 4th. More Info: https://bit.ly/2VQHxZM Learn to speak in a way to be heard and listen in a way the other gets a sense of being heard!

We offer courses, workshops, and private session work for couples and individuals who want to show u

02/27/2023

New 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course Starting Monday, March 6th. More Info: https://bit.ly/2VQHxZM This powerful course has saved relationships for some and enriched relationships for others.

An Online 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course Starting Monday March 6th, 7:00-9:00 pm Eastern Course Details The Ultimate Conflict Resolving, Heart Connecting, Way Of Communicating Compassionate Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication), developed by Marshall Rosenberg Ph.D., is h...

02/11/2022

How Do Helping Professionals Know Transformation Has Happened With Clients?

Do you rely upon your subjective evaluations? These could be biased because we all want success and effectiveness in our efforts? Such biases could cause us to end focusing on the challenge prematurely.

Do you depend upon the clients' glowing verbal reports? These could be telling you what you want to hear to please you or simply a protective strategy to avoid going to uncomfortable deep emotional spaces again.

Another crucial question: How do you know the transformative change is lasting and durable?
In the Inner Presence Coaching Program, we have protocols to test whether clients have genuinely transformed their challenges. We let the client's internal system reveal the depth and extent of transformation.

We learn specific universal markers that indicate long and lasting transformation. And the beautiful part of these transformations is they are effortless.
When you have a robust framework for testing client transformations, you can reverse engineer all your session work to move in the direction of effortless transformation; it is no longer in the "hit or miss" proposition.

The 9-Month Inner Presence Program starts on April 16th, 2022. Please check out the website to find out more about the program. https://www.innerpresencecoaching.com/

12/31/2021

A new year's commitment to compassionate communication is a choice for deeper connections, resolutions to conflicts, and more ease into your life. New 8-Week Compassionate Communication Course starting January 10th. More info: https://bit.ly/2VQHxZM

09/20/2021

New 9-Month Inner Presence Coaching Course Starting Sept 25th. Details here: http://innerpresencecoaching.com/ Below are the 9 Principles we use to develop your skills to support others and yourself with presence.
1. Be aware of the ways you can inadvertently add to clients' conditioning and constrict them further.
2. Working with clients to have insights that come from an emotional, experiential level instead of insights that come from the intellectual level. This is the difference between effective and ineffective support.
3. Placing a priority on meaningful experiential work with clients will yield transformative insights that are not possible with "talk about" or "story about" engagements.
4. Paying attention to the context will bring clarity and focus to the session and allow emotionally rich material to emerge. Clients will present 25 challenges at one time if you let them.
5. Holding non-pathological regard by dropping all the labels will free clients from being trapped in a reality that something is wrong with them or something is missing. The Client feels this non-labeling acceptance.
6. Allowing your support in a session to be gentle, non-invasive, and client-directed. If you push clients before they're ready, you'll strengthen protection or lose clients.
7. Supporting clients with non-prescriptive contributions and working within their system of meaning and values so that we're not inadvertently superimposing ours onto them.
8. Working in the present with a client can reduce their identification with parts of them that are emerging with the past or future stories.
9. Verifying that effortless transformations have happened or are fully integrated will prevent false positives or contrived transformations that are not lasting. You will know your level of effectiveness!
At the end of the 9-Month Program, you'll be equipped to support people with a high level of effectiveness that will naturally lead to referrals.
If taking your skills to the next level of effectiveness is interesting to you, here's more information about the Program: http://innerpresencecoaching.com/

04/24/2021

Interesting distinctions made in this article.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs borrows generously from Blackfeet teachings. But he got their model backward.

12/08/2020

At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?

04/23/2020

This powerful course will change you life!

04/21/2020

Been following the work of Peter for years and enjoy the clarity he brings to systems thinking,

Can you resolve these three questions/problems logically without realizing the need to remove the Market Economy? If so: Make a video or letter and email it ...