Book Project

This essay demonstrates how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can be deepened through nature-based depth psychology by extending the classic metaphor of the NVC Tree of Life by NVC Trainer Inbal Kashtan.

Describes how their works are related and how each community of practice can benefit from the other.

Describes how the NVC Wheel of Knowing can be used for Collaborative Empathic Discovery - i.e. NVC Self-Connection, Empathic Listening, Honest Self-Empression, etc.

Describes an outline of how the NVC Wheel of Knowing is extended by including various aspect of the Wild Mind model, including a nature-based 7 directional model of the psyche, archetypes of wholeness, archetype-influenced qualifiers to each window of knowing, subpersonalities and fragments associated with each direction.

Describes an outline of how the NVC Wheel of Knowing is extended by including various aspect of the Wild Mind model, including a nature-based 7 directional model of the psyche, archetypes of wholeness, archetype-influenced qualifiers to each window of knowing, subpersonalities and fragments associated with each direction.

Describes feelings and needs using the metaphor of a symphony orchestra.

Describes how needs are the life energy in us seeking fulfillment.

Describes how the satisfcation level of our needs causes our feelings.

Describes my discovery of "Inscendence" by Thomas Berry as a universal human need.

Describes using a tree as a metaphor for describing how transcendence and inscendence are related.

Describes how self-empathy opens you to the world!

Describes the importance of taking personal responsibility by being truthful to myself and others

Describes exemplar requests of oneself for connection to self, and to life.

Describes the focus on the Perspective of Oneself: what’s alive in me? — i.e. how it’s going and why, what might make life wonderful?

Describes how to go about listening with empathy.

Wild Heart is the name of the offerings that extend Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with Bill Plotkin’s “Wild Mind - Field Guide to the Human Psyche.”

It’s “wild” out of the assumption that we’re born with the natural capacities/inner-resources for growing and maturing into our wholeness. Sadly, due to industrialization and colonization, most of Western Culture has lost, suppressed or repressed some of those natural capacities. Because of those losses, we require the cultivation of the capacities that are weak, along with self-healing that’s needed for maturation into adulthood. The process of recovering our life-essential resources often called cultivating wholeness, can also be seen as a kind of “re-wilding” back to our true nature.

Describes "shadow" from Jung's and Plotkin's perspective, how you might identify shadow, and how you can work with it.

Describes how connection with nature is an essential part of living.