Weekly DCC Practice!
We’ll explore basic concepts for beginners as well as applied practice opportunities for advanced practitioners based on the makeup and needs of the group.
Please make a donation based on your resource capacity.
Direct Compassionate Communication (DCC) is deeply aligned with the spirit of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a practice developed by Marshall Rosenberg that centers honest expression and empathetic listening. While NVC offers a structured approach to naming observations, feelings, needs, and requests, DCC builds on this foundation with a more embodied, heart-forward commitment to showing up for one another in truth and tenderness.
DCC is:
- Direct
It invites us to be brave enough to be straightforward and name what’s real, to say the hard things with clarity and integrity, and to receive truth without defensiveness. - Compassionate
It is rooted in care, empathy, and a deep respect for the humanity in ourselves and each other. - Communication
It strengthens collective resilience through real-life practice and intentional dialogue that helps us move through tension toward transformation. - Relational & Reparative
It transmutes conflict and encourages openness, curiosity, care, and repair - it allows us all to take ownership of our part!
DCC is not a system, a step-by-step process, a training module, a hierarchy, or a technique to control outcomes.
Instead, it is a way of being.
A practice.
A remembering.
It’s about honoring the sacredness of connection by meeting one another with open hearts and honest words. In this work, we’re not trying to “win” communication—we’re trying to be human together. And from that space, healing becomes possible.
