Defining human connectedness and what supports it.

Since human feelings and human needs are at the core of human connectedness, the video offers practical advice on how to be more connected with our feelings and our needs.  It also presents emotional granularity and an example on how to name the exact feeling. The video ends with practical guidelines to support the two processes of connecting to our feelings and our needs. 

The video presents the relationship between human feelings and human needs. 

Presenting the three levels of connectedness: the intellectual understanding, the emotional connectedness and the connectedness on the level of human needs. The video defines empathy as a process where connectedness happens on the level of feelings and needs.

A practical exercise to make the three levels of connectedness, coupled with a true example story.

An interactive video presentation where learners are invited to provide an answer in order to understand the value of the three levels of connectedness, making it clear where we need to put our focus when we seek more depth in our relationships.

Exploring in depth the intellectual understanding from the three levels of connectedness and why it is not enough to bring in a sense of togetherness in our relationships.

Emotions beyond being positive or negative.

Emotions properly understood could be defined as messengers from the world of our needs. Based on this new perspective on them the video suggests a way of connecting and dealing with them.

How to manage Difficult Emotions

Exploring the strategies we have to deal with our emotions and differentiating the healthy and unhealthy ones. The video offers recommendations on how to partner better to our emotions.

Practical guidelines on how to take care for our emotional well-being.

The video presents the major distinction between real feelings and thoughts disguised as feelings and offers a quick self-check test question to make this differentiation for ourselves. Since expressing a real emotion is at the core of emotional connection this distinction is vital for human connectedness.  Thoughts create discussion, emotions create connection.

The expression of negative emotions is always an invitation to connect. Sadly our reactions to these emotions often promote disconnection. The video covers the difficulties in relating with others when they are experiencing and expressing negative emotions and includes easy to remember and try approaches in such delicate interactions that keep and even strengthens the connection.

The video presents our emotions as gateways to the world of our needs and suggests that living aligned with our needs promises more of the positive emotions we all prefer. It also reminds that on the level of human needs we can easiest feel deep connection and unity.

A guided emotional connectedness exercise that serves as an immediate experience of how we can connect with our emotions at any given moment.

A concise definition of the processes of empathy to self and empathy to others as practices that create connection and bring a sense of togetherness.

A detailed explanation of how empathy to self starts, develops and comes to completion. 

A personal example of exploring a situation with empathy to self that supports the understanding of the theory in the lecture.

Meeting Anger

Meeting Fear

Meeting Guilt

Meeting Shame

A summary of the process of empathy to self.

A detailed explanation of what it takes to give empathy and how empathy to others starts, develops and comes to completion. 

A summary of the process of giving empathy to others including practical guidelines to be attentive of when we choose to connect with empathy.

An example of giving empathy to others with a situation where we search deeper understanding of the choices we make and the needs that determine them.

A second example of giving empathy to others with a relationship situation where we discover how what is triggered in us by the reactions of our partners can be a calling to live more aligned with what we value.

Empathy to others - example 3

Empathy to others - example 4

The video invites looking at the value and true meaning of a difficult conversation where the choice to initiate it is a commitment to relating through honesty. 

The video picks upon the potential difficulties in initiating, leading and staying in difficult conversations and offers advice on how those can be easier.

The video invites the understanding that in difficult conversations a decision comes when we are well connected and have a deep understanding of both ourselves and of the other and stresses the importance of the process of connection over quick decision making process.

The beauty of difficult conversations lies in the possibility through connecting and deep understanding to reach a common ground where we are no longer attached to a fraction of the reality we perceive, but to a newly emerged solution/decision born out of togetherness. The video stresses out the importance of remaining open to express, understand and relate on the level of human feelings and human needs.

The video speaks about the dangers of difficult conversations and offers ideas how to avoid them. It also speaks about the gifts as motivators to go into uncomfortable topics and bring our authenticity in the space between as and the others.

The video on how to stay inspired in bringing the course into your life and celebrate the changes it makes possible.