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What is Empathologie?

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Empathologie is a transformational practice that helps you break free from old patterns, hidden beliefs, and emotional and relational blocks. It offers a new way of hearing, thinking and speaking that reduces conflict, nurtures connection, and brings what’s been hidden into the light.

Through a unique blend of emotional intelligence, intuition, empathy and neuroscience, Empathologie invites deeper insight into your thoughts, emotions, and relationships, fostering genuine understanding, authentic connection, and true compassion. This heart-led approach to communication and self-awareness reveals and heals the places you feel stuck and opens the door to meaningful and lasting change.

“Empathy is walking beside someone present to what they are experiencing without judging or attempting to fix it”
~ Jen Phillips


The Elements of Empathologie
Empathologie integrates the following modalities to gently guide you out of resistance, unravel old patterns and convert judgment to compassion, empowering you to move forward with clarity, confidence and freedom.

Intuitive Empathy
The ability to sense and understand others’ emotions and needs, even when unspoken. A blend of emotional intelligence, intuition, and spiritual awareness that uncovers the deeper emotional layers beneath words and actions. 

Inner Child Healing
Reconnecting with the younger parts of ourselves that carry unmet needs, emotional wounds, or protective strategies from the past. Approaching these tender areas with compassion and awareness, heals old emotional patterns, releases outdated survival strategies, and reclaims a deeper sense of wholeness and authenticity.

Compassionate Communication (NVC)
A heart based communication practice (also known as Nonviolent Communication) that helps nurture connection and reduce conflict by neutralizing and depersonalizing language and behavior.

Thinking Styles
Neuroscience-based tools that reveals how people think, solve problems, and process information. Understanding thinking preferences, and appreciating how others think differently, helps build stronger self-awareness, compassion and connection.


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Jennifer Phillips

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Hi! I’m Jen Phillips – Mentor, Intuitive Empath, and creator of Empathologie, a transformative practice that helps you break free from old patterns and step into a life filled with greater clarity, freedom, and authentic connection.

I am especially passionate about supporting women and parents in creating empowered, heart-centered relationships grounded in trust, compassion and self-awareness.

Through a unique blend of emotional intelligence, intuition, spiritual insight, and other practical tools, my work offers a gentle path to deep healing and lasting personal growth.

I truly love what I do and would be honored to walk alongside you on your journey toward a life of empowerment, harmony, and wholehearted living.

I look forward to connecting with you soon!

When I began to work with her one on one, I saw the true power of Jennifer's love, compassion and the ability to express in a concise and clear manner. She told me that NVC was a new language. I find Jennifer a scholar of that language. Ever present. Ever open. Ever loving.

~ Rebel Clair ~

How Can I Help You?

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Private Coaching

One-on-one in person or virtual support that will identify and transform the obstacles in your personal development and relationships with others. Recommended for individuals, parents, and couples.

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Voxer Coaching

Direct daily support available 24/7 using an app called Voxer that offers real-time coaching and individualized feedback within 24 hours.

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Mediation

A safe and neutral container allowing both parties to be heard fully, express authentically and be compassionately understood for their actions and behaviors resulting in restored connection and peaceful resolution.

Practice Groups

Weekly cost-effective circles of support that provide a safe and connective environment to learn and practice communication skills, authentic expression and compassionate connection with others.

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Workshops & Online Webinars

Fun and interactive experiences providing an introduction to the fundamentals of Compassionate Communication and Personal Thinking Styles.

I have had a number of NVC trainers and go to their conferences and I feel Jennifer is a master teacher and lives NVC on a daily basis in her own life. She is especially skilled at relational awareness - balancing you and the other plus external and internal body awareness, both so critical. Her guidance is exemplary and transformational!

~ Paula Ray ~

Are You Ready To . . .

• • • transform conflict to connection?

• • • hear and speak with compassion?

• • • respond instead of react?

• • • foster healthy, joyful and satisfying relationships?

Our family has had the privilege of working with Jennifer Phillips for almost a year, and she has contributed greatly to our ability to whole-heartedly communicate. I have done dozens of workshops on accountability and personal growth over the past 40 years, and Jennifer is one of the best facilitators.

~ Ruth Larson, M.D. ~
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As a longtime practitioner and instructor of compa As a longtime practitioner and instructor of compassionate communication, I am delighted to offer FREE monthly online workshops for beginners. During our time together, I will be sharing the foundational concepts of my transformational communication practice called Empathologie in a safe, fun and interactive environment.

Learn how to:
* Transform conflict into connection
* Depersonalize language and behavior
* Convert judgments into observations
* Create compassion from criticism
* Expand your emotional vocabulary
* Identify your needs and make requests to get them met

Visit the link in my bio for future workshop dates and registration.
I look forward to welcoming you into our community!

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Authenticity in relationships fosters trust, deepe Authenticity in relationships fosters trust, deepens connections, and enhances communication. It allows individuals to express their true selves without fear of judgment, allowing for genuine interactions. This openness creates mutual respect and understanding which is essential for healthy, sustainable relationships. 

The willingness to be vulnerable with what lives inside our hearts invites the other person to hold our truth while feeling safe enough to express their own.  Authenticity also helps in aligning expectations and building a strong emotional bond, as each person has the experience of being seen and valued for who they truly are. 

How has authenticity has impacted your relationships?

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Meet your Coach Jen! Jen has been practicing an Meet your Coach Jen! 
 
Jen has been practicing and teaching the art of Compassionate Communication since 2012.  She works with individuals, groups, parents and couples to create rich and meaningful connections and has a passion for supporting people in establishing empowered and authentic relationships. 

Jen combines two powerful techniques, The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a process that helps people understand the power of thinking styles in personality and behavior; and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which is a process that offers simple, yet effective communication tools, in relation to feelings and needs, that reduce conflict and deepen connections. 

Jen believes that having compassion for ourselves and others is the key to creating a harmonious world and is dedicated to helping people create peace in themselves and with one another, one conversation at a time.

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I am excited to share that I will have a booth at I am excited to share that I will have a booth at the CSL Bellingham Mind, Body, Spirit Fair on Saturday, July 20th and look forward to sharing Empathologie with the community of Bellingham!
I am hosting a FREE Intro to Empathologie Online W I am hosting a FREE Intro to Empathologie Online Workshop on July 1st and would love to have you join me! You can find the registration link in my bio…hope to see you there! :) 

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When I say "pain isn't personal," I'm referring to When I say "pain isn't personal," I'm referring to the idea that the suffering we experience often stems from our thoughts and expectations about how things should be, rather than the actual events themselves. It's about recognizing that pain is a universal human experience, and it's not a reflection of our worth or a personal failing.

For instance, when we feel pain, it can be easy to think that it's a direct result of someone else's actions or that it's a unique burden we alone must bear. However, pain often arises from unmet needs or unfulfilled expectations. By understanding this, we can start to see pain as a signal pointing us towards those unmet needs, rather than a personal attack or a sign of weakness.

How does the concept of pain not being personal resonate with you in your own experiences?

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Who are the Jackal and the Giraffe?
CHARACTERISTICS OF A RED THINKER
What they say and do is feeling or emotion based. They navigate life through the guidance of emotions. They attune to other people's feelings.

They can be kinesthetic. They are connected to their bodies. They like movement.

IN COMMUNICATION
They have an emotional interpersonal quality. They relate with personal stories and details. They decorate conversations to help you relate to it as much as possible. They talk about how something made them feel. They relate emotion to the circumstance.

THEY ENJOY
Connection, Community, To be needed, To matter, and Shared experiences.

CHALLENGES
Getting their needs met while meeting other people's needs. May identify as a "people pleaser" where they sacrifice their needs in order to please others or to matter or to stay safe and emotionally secure. Finding balance between caring for themselves and caring for others. They can take things personally.

SUPERPOWERS
Compassion. Understanding. Relatability. Connection. Networking to connect and include people. Mindful about how people feel and what they need. Have a lot of consideration and awareness about others.
Recognizing a Red Thinker
Empathologie is the study of empathy. It is the science of learning how to listen and speak from the heart instead of the head and how to bridge the gap between judgment and criticism to connection and compassion. When we listen with our hearts we're able to empathize with what's alive inside the other person and connect to their needs and their emotions in a non-judgmental human way that hopefully reduces conflict and nurtures connection. 

There are lots of ways to approach Empathologie. It's all about learning to strengthen a new muscle and begin to see things through a different filter. One of kindness and compassion and understanding of shared humanity about how we all share common needs and that it's our birthright to get them met. When we remember that, it helps us lean in from a place of giving rather than a place of judging and from there magic happens.

That's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Empathologie. There are lots of ways to navigate the different scenarios and the different paths to get there but ultimately it helps us depersonalize and neutralize language and behavior which brings us back to our culture of connection and giving and supporting one another which hopefully makes the world a better place.
What is Empathologie?
Journaling is a powerful healing modality. By journaling with your "jackal" you allow yourself to express all of your unfiltered thoughts and feelings. Then you can go through your jackal words and give yourself "giraffe" empathy for the feelings and needs you expressed. Through this strategy you will be able to give yourself love and meet your need without being dependent on someone else to meet your need to be heard.
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