NVC is interested in learning that is motivated by reverence for life, by a desire to learn skills, to contribute better to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me… — 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
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a… — Deepak Chopra 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
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators. — 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
I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways… — 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
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick 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
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
Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him. — Morihei Ueshiba 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
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
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser 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
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people… — 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
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
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
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
