Find clarity by systematically unpacking issues and feelings you may be harboring in the back of your mind on a daily basis.
Discover insight into the reason for blocks, intense feelings, and unresolved conflicts blocking you from moving forward.
Learn your true feelings and needs. Learn what long held unmet needs you have.
Enjoy the intellectual practice of effective communication.
Give yourself more options once you learn a vocabulary of feelings and needs words.
Do a weekly inventory of needs and strategize together a compassionate way to get those needs met each week.
Why Join This Group?
Learn ways we can empathize in the face of challenging situations.
Nurture our scary, vulnerable parts and be held in a space where we can heal and breathe.
Experience the refreshing benefits of being fully heard.
Discover a way to meet your most long held needs and support others in their journey.
Understand ourselves and others without blaming and shaming.
Meet Your Facilitator
Natalie Botero MA Mental Health Counselor and Integrative Health Practitioner
Natalie has a 19-year career as a mental health professional counseling individuals, youth, families, people with disabilities, and the homeless in both inpatient and non-profit settings in Atlanta, Florida, and San Francisco. She holds a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling and continued with an apprenticeship in healing, her own therapy work, several hours of training in Nonviolent Communication, and 3-year experience in Core Energetics. She currently counsels business professionals, therapists, alternative healers, couples, students, and psychics as an integrative health practitioner. Her previous groups have been in Women’s Intuitive Development and Spirituality.
Group Details
Weekly 75 minute meetings: every Friday. Drop in when you like.
Live video meetings on Zoom; Link sent beforehand
Contact to sign up: send email to natalie.botero@gmail
Embrace the Beauty of Your Needs with Self-Compassion and Empathic Communication
How do we support ourselves in the face of our unmet needs and the desire to be fully heard? In this virtual group guided by Natalie Botero, M.A., learn to love and express yourself with empathic communication. To deepen our awareness, we can reflect each other’s feelings and needs with compassion in a safe environment of acceptance, where every person is welcome.
Topics We Will Cover Include:
Cultivating Self-Compassion and Empathy for Every Part of Oneself.
Understanding and Navigating Strong Emotional Responses.
Putting Into Words our Feelings and Needs in the Language of Empathy.
Reflecting on the Positive Intent Behind Our Actions and Expression.
Using Empathy to Strengthen Our Relationships and Our Communication with Others.
Why Join This Group?
Learn ways we can empathize in the face of challenging situations.
Nurture our scary, vulnerable parts and be held in a space where we can heal and breathe.
Experience the refreshing benefits of being fully heard.
Discover a way to meet your most long held needs and support others in their journey.
Understand ourselves and others without blaming and shaming.
Join us on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, enhancing your communication abilities with self-compassion and understanding.
Meet Your Facilitator
Natalie Botero MA
Mental Health Counselor and Integrative Health Practitioner
Natalie has a 19-year career as a mental health professional counseling individuals, youth, families, people with disabilities, and the homeless in both inpatient and non-profit settings in Atlanta, Florida, and San Francisco. She holds a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling and continued with an apprenticeship in healing, her own therapy work, several hours of training in Nonviolent Communication, and 3-year experience in Core Energetics. She currently counsels business professionals, therapists, alternative healers, couples, students, and psychics as an integrative health practitioner. Her previous groups have been in Women’s Intuitive Development and Spirituality.
Group Details
FREE. Every Friday. Drop in when you like
Weekly 90-minute meetings: Every Friday 8pm EST/5pm PST
Live video meetings on Zoom; Link sent beforehand.
Contact to sign up: send email to natalie.botero@gmail or message on Facebook and LinkedIn
How does career success and leadership all link to empathy? Is it a quality one possesses or a skill one develops? Empathy may not be generally noted in a CEO’s mode, or a military general, and it may be looked upon as a weakness to some, but empathy does not preclude a downfall in control or management. In fact, it is an intellectual exercise and an advanced quality of emotional intelligence. When working with people, the public, a state or a country, empathy understands that people have the same universal needs. Addressing those needs of the people and catering to those who need it with an open heart may be just the thing needed to produce results and success.
Empathy is feeling the other deeply, as one in the same, and feeling the desire to alleviate the suffering of the other. Empathy is an action connected to the compassionate choice that ethics holds us responsible for. Mostly, politicians who promise to bring more hope back into your life and the world usually influence elections. Speeches that carry a message of unity and fairness to all are remembered. When these basic touch points are based in empathy, in other words, they appeal to the universal needs of humanity. Of course, following through is much more complex.
Imagine if you were able to relate to someone who works on a subordinate level as if they were your mirror. They could understand what you’re going through and reflect back to you what you are truly feeling. Wouldn’t this teach you about the importance of your needs, and help you feel complete joy and fellowship for the opportunity to share in meeting the other’s needs, whatever their station in life? Indeed, leadership can be a joyous, exultant experience when the leader is connected and in touch with those he serves.
Empathy is in language. Learn not only peaceful words, but HOW words connect us or destroy us. It is in the language you choose to speak that can transform your life and the life of others because its real message is meant to be sincere. Sincerity is felt not in words of rhetoric but words of truth. Empathy clarifies your most honest choices. Its power is based on the results of the harmonious cooperation around you.
Here are ways many of us crave to be held by our partners, friends, and others. Imagine if you were truly held and fully heard, what that would feel like.
Curiosity (holding closely the desire to find out more about the other’s experience, asks good questions, concentrates and hangs on every word, helpful in that it encourages the speaker to be fully heard, a helping ear to solve problems together, creative strategies, exploration of options, and resolutions formed)
Awareness (of body language and voice tone and inflection) attunement to sound and voice shifts, when to know you are making an accurate reflection, gives insight into how to be a better listener by urging when someone looks away, eye movements to the left or right indicating the truthfulness of a statement,
Awe, (holding a safe space of non-judgement, with an added interest for who they are, which can be the stance of beholding the sacredness of the other, the believable, the beauty, and contains the interest meant to encourage the other to be in their fullest, most authentic self.
Innocence, (knowing that you do not know, beholding. Spiritual seeing stance, and holds respect for the perfection of the being of the other, the love for the other, the flow of unconditional love between you both, knowing that the two of you from the one listening to the other one sharing are both having a breakthrough by sharing experience and holding a space. the beauty of a being, not being separate, listening for the best interest of the other, focusing
Non-critical Analysis, (that lacks interpretation, thinking of ways to reframe and phrase the experience of the other, seeing behind their words to their needs, lets go of preconceived notions, is aware to put aside your own stuff to focus on the not-knowing of the other, focusing, being aware of stereotypes you might use that get in the way and create illusory perceptions, the absence of projection. Always looks for clarification and accurate empathy
Reflective Self-Awareness, (notices how you relate to the other, focuses on similarities between the two of you and the things you have in common, not making comparisons but much better correlations so that you can relay helpful statements, offers something to the listener about the human experience as you listen to another human being’s story, using memories to recall what it was like for you (like childhood) so you can feel the same feelings together.
Empathy is Poetry 