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
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive… — 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
Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them? — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met. — 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
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer. — 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
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 Image
Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
