In the NVC model “I feel alone” would be a “mental emotion” and I agree that there are many cases that distinction is useful.
In the Circling context in which I have been you wouldn’t correct a person into making that distinction but accept “I feel alone” as an authentic expression. The fact that Vaniver uses feel here suggests that the Circling Europe training also didn’t enforce that distinction strongly.
In radical honesty a person saying “I feel betrayed” would be asked to say “I’m angry at you, because X happened and I imagine it means you betrayed me”. The person is often asked to say it multiple times till they connect with the anger.
In the NVC model “I feel alone” would be a “mental emotion” and I agree that there are many cases that distinction is useful.
In the Circling context in which I have been you wouldn’t correct a person into making that distinction but accept “I feel alone” as an authentic expression. The fact that Vaniver uses feel here suggests that the Circling Europe training also didn’t enforce that distinction strongly.
In radical honesty a person saying “I feel betrayed” would be asked to say “I’m angry at you, because X happened and I imagine it means you betrayed me”. The person is often asked to say it multiple times till they connect with the anger.