Self-Empathy Intensive Trainings

 

Navigating Our Inner World with Compassion and Clarity

“Self-compassion is that spacious simple awareness that allows whatever is in our experience to simply be” – Robert Gonzales

 

Self-Empathy Intensive Overview

After laying the foundation for needs-awareness in our Discovery trainings, this intensive turns the focus inward. Self-empathy is a core NVC practice that allows us to untangle the different threads of our inner experience - thoughts, feelings, and needs - and access a deeper sense of clarity and inner alignment. This experiential clarity becomes the foundation for self-compassion, emotional intelligence, and empowered choice.

The Self-Empathy Intensive is designed to help you establish and strengthen this inner practice as a key resource in your personal life, your close relationships, and your work in the world. Rather than resisting reactivity, we learn to meet it with understanding, restore self-connection, and speak from a grounded, authentic place, even when strong emotions are present.

Self-empathy supports every aspect of NVC practice, including dialogue, mediation, and sharing the work with others. Perhaps most importantly, it supports knowing what we truly want - rather what we think we should do.

Throughout this training, we’ll practice slowing down and listening to the wisdom of our life energy - our feelings and needs - as a compass for navigating difficult experiences, making choices, and shaping a life rooted in intention rather than habit.

Learning Objectives

  • Understanding and practicing the key components of self-empathy

  • Refining our ability to notice and translate our judgments

  • Refining our ability to connect to our feelings and to our body sensations

  • Slowing down/interrupting for self-connection

  • Working with triggers/intensity/anger

  • Transforming our relationship to pain though mourning

  • Developing the ability to appreciate and celebrate ourselves and others

  • Transforming shame/guilt/self-judgments into life-serving energies

  • Developing self-compassion for our “mistakes”

  • Making needs-based decisions and working with apparently conflicting needs

  • Understanding (and sometimes transforming) our beliefs through the lens of needs

Upcoming Trainings

  • self-empathy intensive ONLINE - STARTS May 6, 2025

    • 8 WEEKS, tuesdays, 6PM-8:30PM EDT

PREREQUISITES: This is an intermediate level training. It is designed for people who have completed an introductory NVC program of at least 14-18 hours, which includes (but is not limited to) the completion of one or more of the following programs:

• NYCNVC Discovery Weekend
• NYCNVC Discovery Program Online
• The Compassion Course Online

Ongoing empathy practice is strongly encouraged.

Self-Empathy Intensive Online

 

Trainer

Clara Moisello, PhD

dates and timeS

8 weekly meetings | 2.5 hours each

program tuition - sliding scale

We offer a sliding scale tuition model to support accessibility and economic diversity, trusting each person to choose the rate that best reflects their financial situation. Contact Clara at clara@nycnvc.org to discuss any concerns you have regarding finances.

• Suggested Tuition - $420

• Reduced Tuition - $360 (For those who need financial flexibility. We trust you to choose this option if it helps make participation possible for you)

• Contributor Tuition - $480 (For those who are able to contribute more. Your generosity helps offset reduced tuition rates and supports broader access to this work.)