What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we are depressed, our thinking blocks us from being aware of our needs, and then being able to take action to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears)… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share
