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Understanding Each Other: Nonviolent Communication for Couples
Appreciations for NVC for Couples
“The replayed arguments were touching, funny (in a ‘That’s familiar!’ kind of way) and instructive for me. Really seeing how perennial tensions can move beyond stuck places was inspiring.” -A.N.
“My partner and I loved the couple’s class. We were going through a hard time, and knew we needed to learn some more effective communication skills. We got what we had hoped for and have been able to integrate what we learned. We felt safe and relaxed in the group. It’s made a huge difference in the quality of our connection. We would highly recommend this class to other couples!“
Online couples workshop
with Aviva Longinotti & Rick Longinotti, MFT
REGISTER HERE for 4 Thursdays, starting Jan 23, 7-8:30pm Cost per couple: sliding scale $180-$300
Transform criticism, hurt feelings, and defensiveness into closeness and mutual generosity.
Our relationships keep getting caught in the same traps of hurt and defensiveness. Empower yourself to break loose from those habits, starting with the powerful tool of self-empathy. Self empathy is the capacity to understand yourself with kindness in the face of your imperfections.
- With a deep appreciation of ourselves, we can more easily find understanding for our partner’s imperfections.
- We can make requests of our partner that are free from subtle guilt or blame.
- We develop the capacity to say “no” with compassion and say “yes” with enthusiasm rather than a sense of obligation.
Our kindness towards ourselves spills out towards our partner. The things that used to annoy us loosen their grip on us. We experience a spirit of mutual generosity, enjoying giving and receiving.
During this online workshop we will invite you to participate in role plays and exercises. Please feel free to pass when it does not feel comfortable.
Nonviolent Communication, developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, is the best program we’ve experienced for couples. It moves us past assigning blame, and onto appreciating our needs and our partner’s needs and how to meet them.
-Aviva & Rick
Click here to download the course syllabus
About us
We have been married since 1980 and have two adult children. Rick has been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 2007. We have led couples communication workshops for the last 20 years. People appreciate the workshops because we share the real issues Aviva and I have experienced over the course of our long relationship. We bring contrasting temperaments and life experiences to our marriage, resulting in some of the classic conflicts that couples experience. Rick has written a book, That Loving Feeling, A Couples Guide to Transform Hurt & Criticism into Kindness & Gratitude. Available at RickLonginotti.com