Every Tues­day, as part of Kin­dra’s Dai­ly Dat­ing & Relat­ing Zoom Series, we will be offer­ing ses­sions that use Non­vi­o­lent Com­mu­ni­ca­tion prac­tices to improve your com­mu­ni­ca­tions, increase empa­thy and bet­ter your relationships. 

This week Jeff Las­sanske and Emil­ia Col­man will lead us in play­ing Grok, a rela­tion­ship game based on Non­vi­o­lent Com­mu­ni­ca­tion prin­ci­ples. Play­ing Grok helps us under­stand each oth­er bet­ter and deep­en our con­nec­tions with each oth­er. It’s lots of fun and will make you smile.

Emil­ia invites you to come play Grok because “I learn so much about myself and the ways that peo­ple are dif­fer­ent from me. I come away feel­ing hap­py and so con­nect­ed with the peo­ple I’m play­ing with.” Jeff loves play­ing Grok because “I always feel so much calmer, cen­tered and ground­ed after play­ing Grok.”

What is Grok? From www.groktheworld.com/products: “GROK is a set of 20 rela­tion­ship games and exer­cis­es designed to help us lis­ten deeply to each oth­er’s val­ues, needs, wish­es, hopes and dreams; and to lis­ten to one­self for clar­i­ty and self-con­nec­tion. These games are fun, engag­ing, and edu­ca­tion­al; with no ‘win­ners and losers’. GROK offers a dif­fer­ent mod­el, a game where every­body not only wins, but also expe­ri­ences deep­er con­nec­tion with them­selves and others.”

What is Non­vi­o­lent Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NVC)?
From www.cnvc.org/learn-nvc/what-is-nvc

“With Non­vi­o­lent Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (NVC) we learn to hear our own deep­er needs and those of oth­ers. Through its empha­sis on deep listening—to our­selves as well as others—NVC helps us dis­cov­er the depth of our own com­pas­sion. This lan­guage reveals the aware­ness that all human beings are only try­ing to hon­or uni­ver­sal val­ues and needs, every minute, every day.

NVC can be seen as both a spir­i­tu­al prac­tice that helps us see our com­mon human­i­ty, using our pow­er in a way that hon­ors every­one’s needs, and a con­crete set of skills which help us cre­ate life-serv­ing fam­i­lies and communities.

The form is sim­ple, yet pow­er­ful­ly transformative.”

Please note: These ses­sions may be record­ed and made avail­able to peo­ple who aren’t able to attend. How­ev­er, break­out rooms with­in the ses­sions are not recorded. 

Dona­tion-based tick­ets (start­ing at $1). We very much appre­ci­ate your dona­tion which goes to pay our facil­i­ta­tors and sup­port our vir­tu­al offerings. 

Kin­dra is cre­at­ing an on-line/off-line com­mu­ni­ty that val­ues authen­tic con­nec­tions. Our con­nec­tion app start­ed with dat­ing and will short­ly include friend­ship con­nec­tion. We were host­ing reg­u­lar in-per­son events that com­bined great music and danc­ing with con­scious con­nect­ing; now we have brought it online and host reg­u­lar vir­tu­al con­nec­tion and com­mu­ni­ty-build­ing events. 

The Kin­dra Dat­ing App is avail­able for both iPhone and Android.
apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1292021975
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=life.kindra.

Please join the Kin­dra app to con­nect one-on-one with peo­ple, and the Kin­dra Com­mu­ni­ty what’s app chan­nel (chat.whatsapp.com/KBQeJmX0g1oGdcJvcWQQpE) to join the com­mu­ni­ty conversation. 

More info on Kin­dra at www.kindra.life.