Escape Your Chains

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We had an enriching & fun time during a recent training about dealing with challenging situations at work.

Exciting news: 6 NVC Sessions coming up. Whether a newbie to NVC or a veteran, this group will provide you with techniques, practices, resources and support to develop your skills, deepen your learning, and enhance your experience. http://escapeyourchains.co.uk/support-services/practice-group/

Take your NVC learnings further! Bookings closing tomorrow. Find out more here - https://mailchi.mp/00bc5bd2cde7/bfzyt2hf0m-13701712 or book here - https://app.workshop-angel.com/form.php?h=1&t=0&e=2699fcc5c03666d9

We're offering 4 NVC Integration Sessions to deepen NVC skills & increase confidence: fortnightly, Thursday evenings from 26th Oct. Maybe you've seen positive results from using NVC & want more? Or you've struggled implementing some of the theory?

Harvest & integrate NVC within a supportive & empowering group facilitated by a highly skilled & experienced NVC trainer, Sarah Sims Williams.

Thursday evenings - 26th October, 9th November, 23rd November, 7th December - from 7pm-9.30pm.

Near Eglwyswrw.

More info & to book http://escapeyourchains.co.uk/articles/integration-group-this-autumn/

We got our first review. It is a pleasure to read how supported Grace felt, and what a difference our services have made to the ending of a relationship and her life - thank you very much

Google review of Escape Your Chains by Grace Arya Rose ★★★★★ "Sarah has an incredible gift at seeing what's *really* going on in a relational dynamic, facilitating awareness, compassion and understanding. She holds such a strong space for equanimity, for seeing the needs underneath the behaviour, for not making anybody wrong. In doing so, I ha...

Gabor Mate says: Trauma is about what happened inside you, not the external event. As we can't go back and change the event, and we can change what's going on inside us (usually with support, i believe) , this is good news.

What do you think? Let us know below.

Using Nonviolent Communication - what comes after identifying your feelings and needs? There is a more detailed article with links here: http://escapeyourchains.co.uk/articles/after-feelings-needs/.

I have been asked by a community organisation client what steps to take after looking at the judgements & thoughts, and finding the NVC feelings and needs. It is important to complete the process for a full transformation & inner freedom, in my opinion.

In a nutshell, there are 2 more steps to NVC:
1. Dive deeply into your needs
a) empower yourself by making sure they are not attached to a person, group or a place.

To do this ask "what would I get if X met my need for [your need]". Repeat this question until the need is abstract & not attached eg Fun.
b) Shift to mourning or the beauty of the need: there are a series of questions you can ask, like the late Robert Gonzales' meditation of "How does [need] live in you" to "what would your life be like if this [need] was met?"

2. Make a request to get each need met. There is an art to asking an NVC based request. If you read this blog on our website (,http://escapeyourchains.co.uk/articles/after-feelings-needs/) you'll see links to find out more. One is called "Ask for the Moon"! This is a training that goes through the whole process. And there are shorter videos to help you understand an NVC request.

If you want training or support in compassionate communication, Sarah would love to haven free 15 minute call with you, to discuss which way to go or what would work best for you, by calling or messaging now.

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More info about Gwynvyd, at Unearthed Festival (environmental, healing and music festival), starting 15th June, near St Davids.

Gwynvyd - Unearthed 2023

Is a space of deep Healing and Liberation; with host of facilitators and workshops. Holding space for you to step into and connect to your deep inner workings to heal, transform and realign.
Working in the balance of our divine Feminine and Divine masculine, through the medium of music, sound, breath, movement and meditation.

Celebrating Birth
Celebrating Death
And everything in between

Gwynvyd will also be holding a healing Space with our experienced therapists providing everyone an opportunity to relax, and tend to your body, mind and spirit.

There will be a beautiful bluestone circle honouring the four directions and Celtic Ogham calendar in a quiet Garden to offer your thoughts and musings.

NVC workshop at , 10.30 am Friday 16th June, see details below. All levels welcome, with Take Home Tips that you can start to use straight away to increase connection.

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The vision is to create a better more understanding World.
Navigating conflicts using compasisonate frame work (NVC) with escapeyourchains.co.uk with Sarah on Friday at 10:30am
Helping individuals,families,communities and organisations navigate tensions compassionatley. WARNING: NVC involves a paradigm shift!

This week's NVC Learning and Practice session is about digging down below our judgements, into our abstract longings, values, and driving needs. With these clear, we can express ourselves with the greatest chance of keeping the connection with the other and get those longings, values & needs supported.💛NVC Learning this Wednesday! Self Connection via your needs - https://mailchi.mp/62c93678d4f0/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13687680

Learning the art of asking concrete doable requests make it more likely to get our needs met. So this is a wonderful skill to learn. Come along to look at 4 types of request that will be helpful in an important converstation 💛NVC Requests this Wednesday! 💢 free resources inside 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/f5216f9d7752/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13684780

💛NVC this Wednesday! 💢 free resources inside 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/c9944337f1e3/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13684384

Planning & preparing to keep the connection in a tricky or scary conversation: When, where, how, support, practice what might activate you? Come along this Wednesday! 💢 free resources in link 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/8565b73ac674/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13682436

Using Nonviolent Communication to support & transform our reaction when hearing difficult words: rather than trying to change reality or control / change the other person. This session is a standalone session, and part of this quarter's difficult conversations prep.💛NVC this Wednesday 6.30 pm for 6.45 pm💢 click for info & free resources 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/bda193dc9ce7/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13680972

As part of 6 stand alone sessions preparing for a tricky important conversation, come along Wed for "meditations" to experience the deepth of NVC needs from abundance. Touching into the spirituality of NVC "[NVC is] more than a communication process … It’s really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life …“ Marshall B. Rosenberg 💛NVC this Wednesday! 💢 click link for info & free resources even if you're not coming 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/a8e3bcb5de42/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13679892

NVC new quarter starting this Wednesday! These next 6 sessions we prepare for a difficult or meaningful conversation that we want to have in a way that considers everyone's needs, not just ours. We use the Nonviolent Communication framework, and practice the skills. The beauty, of what we long for or value, guides us in NVC. 💢 see link for info, free resources & to help us 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/e28ecb1e919d/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13677800

Transforming "Otherness" into Togetherness.

In this week's session we will be transforming "Enemy Images". This isn't meaning actual enemies, but people we see as "other" than us. (The issues build up when we are not getting our needs met and we repeaatedly wish someone would do something differently).

Transforming our images helps us see the other's humanness & find win win outcomes 💛 NVC (Nonviolent Communication) this Wednesday 💢open to see details & free resources embeded under Aims 😍 - https://mailchi.mp/4988e94bff8c/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13677664

💛NVC this Wednesday 💢Social for present and past participants (details in link). In NVC we distinguish between thoughts and feelings, needs and solutions: Find out why & how:, in this link under Aims, there are embedded free videos 😍 https://mailchi.mp/20983184dde3/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13675572

How we ask in a way that increases the connection 💢 and chances of people really wanting to help us meet our needs! Win-win requests 💛NVC this Wednesday - support with meeting our needs 😍 Hop on board here: https://mailchi.mp/b9edb5b76c6d/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13672668

*Rethinking How we Navigate Differences for the World we Want*

CORRECTED TIME:
5 - 6 pm Thursday 10th November on The Climate Resilience Show on Cardigan Radio https://cardiganinternetradio.wales/radioplayer/

Sarah Sims Williams from EscapeYourChains.co.uk and Penny Spawforth from PennySpawforth.com are practioners in Nonviolent Communication and are on Cardigan Radio, hosted & producted by Jim Bowen. Cardigan Radio was set up by Bobby Kelly.

We are talking about how NVC (Nonviolent Communication / Compassionate Communication) can help with tricky conversations & disagreements around climate issues.

Listen here: https://cardiganinternetradio.wales/radioplayer/
(you may get a warning come up for an expired certificate or something)

Everything you ask for is an expression of something beautiful inside you. Yet how it is received may seem ugly. The tragic thing is when we then believe it isn't beautiful, that we aren't beautiful. How do we reconcile this in NVC? Come along to find out.

💛Nonviolent Communication this Wednesday 😍 DM with any questions or Hop on board via this link! 💢 more info https://mailchi.mp/6cb00a2caa42/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13638312

Learn what people are saying underneath their judgement/opinion, even under their repetition of something you've heard many times! Learn why judgements are not personal. Learn to express yourself more effectively so your loved one understands what's going on for you! 💛NVC Learning & Practice Group, this Wednesday 😍 Tickets limited, hop on board now! 💢 Click here - https://mailchi.mp/7d40546447fb/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13638216

💛NVC Wednesday 😍 Tickets limited, hop on board now! 💢If we are oversubscribed, we may start a daytime group. Contact us if you would like that. Click here for all the details - https://mailchi.mp/9adb28b5a61d/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13637028

💛NVC Wednesday 😍 The difference for the receiver between receiving "thank you" for being "great" & a specific gratitiude or appreciation for something they did. A simple way to ramp up your connection with someone! Come along, or watch the videos under Aims in this email, to find out how. 💢 - https://mailchi.mp/655de5f5d10b/nvc-practice-this-wednesday-participatory-learning-activities-13635556