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So true. I agree that you can't pull it out of a hat or learn it from reading a blog post. But, I believe it is learnable. I've gone from being a person who had
by tashian 8y ago
So true. I agree that you can't pull it out of a hat or learn it from reading a blog post. But, I believe it is learnable. I've gone from being a person who had no words for my emotions because I literally could not feel them most of the time, to being able to really bring heart and mind together and really speak from that place. I didn't learn it from a self-help book though, I learned it through practice and a lot of personal work, and I was lucky to have some very good guidance along the way.
- darkpuma 8y ago> So true. [...] But, [I disagree] Help me out here, is this the power of NVC?
- tashian 8y agoHmmm... I may have been better off with "and" instead of "but" here, because I was agreeing with the parent comment and adding my own encouragement. scruple took no clear stance in the original comment on whether empathy is learnable or not. I believe it is.
- scruple 8y agoI didn't intend to imply that it can't be learned, I also think that it can be. My argument is with folks who think that things like NVC are a process they can apply by following a series of steps.