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Even in a conflict, you can offer emotional safety without being enmeshed -- and you can do this without sliding into strategies to gain power over another. You can prioritize connection, express your intention, make space for mutuality, honestly reveal what you care about and propose a way forward. This means caring for your needs regardless of their response -- and mourning if their response isn't what you want. Read on for more.

In relationships, the desire for space can conflict with the need for intimacy. This conflict arises from different strategies to meet similar needs. By identifying specific needs behind the request for space and understanding the other person’s needs for closeness, both of you can negotiate and collaborate. Repeated conflicts may indicate the need for personal healing, which you’ll need to address individually.

Ask the Trainer: Dealing with judgments about you when the speaker's true unmet need is hidden.

Penny Wassman shares this first workshop exercise as an opportunity to build connection.

Miki Kashtan helps you move past fear and build skill in making clear, confident requests.

Ask the Trainer: Can NVC transform group conflict? Trainer shares stories and answers the question.

Ask the Trainer: Is a confidentiality agreement typically used in NVC practice groups?

Ask the Trainer: Feeling frustrated & angry over simple things? Find the root of your hidden needs.

Ask the Trainer: Exploring how unconscious motivations influence the needs we identify and express.

Ask the Trainer: "In trainings I say our jackals are thoughts and now I've come to wonder if all thoughts are jackals...?"