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Compassionate Communication offers powerful tools for heart-connection and unity-consciousness. Using NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, we engage communication and thought patterns that deeply support compassion — where everyone's needs are cared for, and power-over is replaced with giving from the heart. We learn how to make this shift in simple and practical ways.

Compassionate Communication supports you to:

• Learn how to speak up when it's scary
  
  
• Engage your spirituality every time you speak and listen
  
  
• Speak in ways that makes it more likely that people will respond in ways you enjoy
  
  
• Grow in compassion
  
  
• Resolve conflicts peacefully (or better yet - happily)
  
  
• Discover me and you solutions
  
  
• USE YOUR SPEECH TO CHANGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS!
  

Compassionate Communication is applicable to all relationships — including our relationship with ourself. This system is being used around the world in intimate relationships, families, schools, work situations, organizations and institutions, and in disputes and conflicts of all kinds. Compassionate Communication can transform even the most challenging situations into kindness, dignity, cooperation, and care.

In the COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION BASICS COURSE, we cover all the fundamentals necessary to make a shift from life-alienating communication to life-enriching communication.

For people who've already taken the Compassionate Communication Basics Course, there are INTERMEDIATE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION TRAININGS on specific topics, including:

• Conflict Resolution

• Creating Harmony with Your Partner

• Communicating in Challenging Situations

• Connecting as a Spiritual Practice

• Living Harmoniously with Children

For the schedule of Compassionate Communication events, go to the Calendar of Events.

Mercedes also offers Counseling and Facilitation for individuals, couples, families, and groups in private sessions.

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"If you want to see Compassionate Communication in action, just observe Mercedes Kirkel. Interacting with her is a wonderful opportunity to see an example of walking the talk of Nonviolent Communication. She does this with heart, integrity, grace, and humor."
- Louona Larkspur, Kea'au, HI

"I treasured my experiences of watching and interacting with Mercedes, as she demonstrated the heart-connection behind the ideas of Nonviolent Communication. It gave me a glimpse of where I'm trying to go with NVC. I highly recommend Mercedes to anyone wishing to learn or grow - her classes brought me joy and inspiration."
- Mark Zinzow, member Alliance for NVC, Champaign, IL

"Compassionate Communication is a practicum for expressing love. I found hope in what I thought were seemingly hopeless personal situations."
- Ariel, businesswoman, Pahoa, HI

"I think this work has the potential to change my life. I wish I had taken this workshop years ago."
- Frank Asch, writer/illustrator, Pahoa, HI

"Powerful techniques for non-confrontational communication. This would help anyone in their dealings with others."
- Scott Miller, acupuncturist, Pahoa, HI

"My communication skills have changed my relationships. Miracles."
- Carolena Kamele Pierce, Iridologist & Qigong Instructor, Pahoa, HI

"I enjoyed the workshop and the ease of connecting with the person I came with on a deep and personal level. I am learning to communicate in a way that lets me express myself in truth."
- Violet, mother, Kapoho, HI

"The process created an opening that allowed a perspective shift. The 'Bigger Picture' was soft and easy. I felaxed into FREEDOM. When the 'story' is removed, there's only the beauty of the NOW."
- Ipo, high school teacher, Ainaloa, HI

"The level of gratitude, appreciation, 'ah-ha!', and heartfelt connection experienced in this workshop moved me immensely and met my own needs for self-connection and shared reality."
- Shakti Martin, healer-counselor, Kehena, HI

"Easy-to-follow, simple steps, yet they promise a completely different outcome in our relationships."
- Yoko, translator, Orchidland, HI

“Compassionate Communication has been a very powerful tool in my classroom. My students learned the components quickly and were able to put them to use right away. Relations have improved and I look forward to exploring this more in-depth with my future students.”
- Natalia Miller, 5th grade teacher, CA