Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is changing lives all over the world in areas of Parenting and Families, Personal Relationships, Education and Schools, Personal Growth and Healing, Organizational Effectiveness, Anger Management, Business Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Spirituality and more.
Here are just some of the Life-Changing Benefits of NVC that I enjoy working with:
Personal Growth and Healing • Transform shame and depression into personal empowerment • Heal old pain
• Transform unhealthy habits
• Stay connected to your own needs and preferences
• Eat by choice, not by habit
Spirituality
• Connect your actions to your spiritual values
• Transform enemy images and moralistic judgments
• Connect to our common humanity
• Overcome cultural conditioning that promotes violence
• Care for your own needs first to fuel compassion for others
Personal Relationships • Deepen your emotional connections • Transform judgment and criticism into understanding and connection
• Listen so others are really heard
• Get what you want more often without using demands, guilt or shame
• Hear the needs behind whatever anyone does or says
Why do people find value in learning NVC?
Most of us are hungry for skills that can improve the quality of our relationships, to deepen our sense of personal empowerment or simply help us communicate more effectively. Unfortunately, most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose; to think and communicate in terms of what is “right“ and “wrong“ with people. At best, the habitual ways we think and speak hinder communication and create misunderstanding and frustration. And still worse, they can cause anger and pain, and may lead to violence. Without wanting to, even people with the best of intentions generate needless conflict. NVC helps us reach beneath the surface and discover what is alive and vital within us, and how all of our actions are based on human needs that we are seeking to meet. We learn to develop a vocabulary of feelings and needs that helps us more clearly express what is going on in us, and understand what is going on it others, at any given moment. When we understand and acknowledge our needs, we develop a shared foundation for much more satisfying relationships. Join the thousands of people worldwide who have improved their relationships and their lives with this simple yet revolutionary process.
"Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul . . .
It is the missing element in what we do.” -
Deepak Chopra, author, How to Know God and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
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Information excerpted with permission from Key Facts About NVC (09/05) Puddledancer Press