My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. — 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
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. — 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 you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change. — 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
With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You're going to lose it when you follow the world "feel" with the words "because I think". Any time you are thinking,… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head… — 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
NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met. — 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
We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need. — 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
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs. — 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
