The Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication process offers practical, effective communication skills to improve interpersonal relationships, reduce conflict, and transform organizations, families and classrooms into empowering, productive environments where emotional safety is top priority.

The application of this process is expansive - including workplace conflict resolution, mediation, interpersonal relationships, parenting, corporate/business leadership, improving classroom communities, violence prevention, anger management, personal and spiritual growth, prison inmate rehabilitation, victim offender mediation, international negotiations, patient communication, and much more.

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• NVC in Application—Articles written by NVC trainers and supporters. Archived by area of professional and personal application, then in alphabetical order by article name.

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Articles in the Media
2007

"New!" Honesty, Empathy Key in Workshop Teaching Nonviolent Communication
By Grant Jaskulski, Northwest Herald (February 2007) Nonviolent Communication is more than just avoiding insults, minimizing threats and not yelling. "It ends up developing really as a philosophy of life," said Harlan Johnson, who holds training events and practice groups in nonviolent communication, which emphasizes honesty and empathy to foster understanding and minimize hostility.
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"New!" Empathy is Key to Solving Problems
Gwinnet Daily Post (January 28, 2007), To talk with Goran Matkovic, you'd never imagine he felt a need to find better ways of communicating without violence. The soft-spoken computer repairman from Norcross quietly explained, "I do a lot of personal growth and exploration. Didn't someone say an unexplored life is not a life worth living?" Matkovic is currently exploring the practices of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg (www.marshallrosenberg.com).
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"New!" Local Pastor Focuses Attention on 4 Steps Everyone Can Take
By Andra Bryan Stefanoni, The Presbyterian Church Press (January 25, 2007), There are four steps every person can take to improve relationships with others, the Rev. K.O. Noonoo, Pittsburg Presbyterian Church, said. But typically we are doing only two of them. And because of that, our relationships tend to include elements of violence, in ways both big and small, obvious and not so obvious. The misconception of violence, Noonoo said, is that it is entirely physical - a husband coming home after a bad day, drinking, and hitting his wife, for example.
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"New!" The Not So Silent, Violent Opposition
By Kathleen Dreesen, The Nappa Valley Register (January 14, 2007), The topic of Rob Lorei's radio show last Wednesday was nonviolent communication - a way of dealing with others in which no one is bullied or humiliated and everyone's needs and feelings are equally valued. As listeners soon found out, that's not as easy as it sounds.
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"New!" Making Peace With Your Body
By Kathleen Dreesen, The Nappa Valley Register (January 8, 2007), In her clinical psychology practice, Joan "Joni" Dittrich, Ph.D., often counsels people about weight and eating issues. In her yoga instruction, Dittrich stresses the alignment of body, mind and spirit.
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Articles in the Media
2006

It's Not About the Food
Simple Steps to Meet Your Needs Instead of Eating Them (2006) by Jan Henrikson,
editor of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
So you're a Pig.Sound a little harsh? It is! Yet it doesn't compare to the way many of us heckle, shame, and rant at ourselves when it comes to food and our body. "I'm so fat, I can't stand it anymore. Why am I eating this bag of chips? Help! I'm hopeless." Repeat that kind of language every week for a few years and it feels like the truth. How much enthusiasm and cooperation can you expect from a body that is talked down to all the time?
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From Prisoner to Peacemaker
A Conversation with Dow Gordon of the Freedom Project (2006)
by Tiffany Meyer, PuddleDancer Press
Serving a 10-year sentence for heroin trafficking, Dow Gordon was a self-described career criminal with a long arrest record and an external toughness that screamed of self-protection. Little did he know that the Nonviolent Communication course he would attend back in 1999-attended, he admits, as an act of rebellion in a system of walls and bars-would subsequently transform his life...
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RADIO INTERVIEW — A Gentler Way to Communicate
with host Michael Toms, New Dimensions Radio, program #3141 (July 2006 )
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, diagnose and to think and communicate in terms of "right" and "wrong" - all of which can generate needless conflict. Growing up in turbulent Detroit, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg developed an interest in new forms of communication that provided a peaceful alternative to the violence he encountered.
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Articles in the Media
2005

Sticking Your Neck Out: Teaching New Yorkers to deploy ‘strategic empathy’ to get what they want
by Janelle Nanos, New York Magazine (December 5, 2005)
New York’s latest California-bred self-improvement movement has a simple suggestion for you to get what you want: Stop being such a jackal. Think like a giraffe.
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Give Peace a Chance
by Judd Handler, San Diego Jewish Journal (October 2005)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Marshall Rosenberg has devoted his life to helping some of the world’s most bitter enemies drop their weapons and start talking. Marshall Rosenberg is a saint among men.
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The Promise of Nonviolent Communication
by Melissa McReynolds, The Bloomington Alternative (September 18, 2005)
Resolving conflict and reducing stress. Creating peace and harmony, within oneself and with all sentient beings. We want it, but how to get there?
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Small Business Makeover: A Local Business Counselor Offers Advice
by Mamta Popat, The Arizona Daily Star (June 27, 2005)
Nationally recognized organization consultant and NVC trainer, Marie Miyashiro, helps Nu Wheel turn their business around with Productive CommunicationTM (her translation of the NVC process for practical business use).
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Unity Church seeks peace through words
by Mary Stevenson, The Gainesville Times (June 25, 2005)
“In today's world, where many have given up the search for different roads to peace, one church is pushing forward and finding new avenues using a simple yet fundamental method: Verbal communication . . . “
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Detroit native Marshall Rosenberg helps the world communicate without violence
by Elizabeth Applebaum, Detroit Jewish News Online (June 1, 2005)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
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Interview with Marshall Rosenberg
by Michael Bertrand, The Natural Child (March 2005)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Marshall Rosenberg, author of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion provides tools for reviving "The lost language of humankind, the language of a people who care about one another and long to live in harmony."
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USAID funded program for youths on nonviolent skills training
TamilNet, Sri Lanka (March 8, 2005)
USAID funded program for youths on Nonviolent skills training conducted by the Eastern University and the Centre for Nonviolent Communication at the Trincomalee campus concluded Monday and the participating youths were awarded certificates at an event held at the Trincomalee Hall Monday evening, civil sources said.
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Giving from the Heart: The Heart of Nonviolent Communication
Book excerpt reprinted from Marshall B. Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Sentient Times (February/March 2005)
"Believing that it is our nature to enjoy giving and receiving in a compassionate manner, I have been pre-occupied most of my life with two questions. What happens to disconnect us from our compassionate nature, leading us to behave violently and exploitatively? And conversely, what allows some people to stay connected to their compassionate nature under even the most trying circumstances . . . "
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Marshall Rosenberg: Life-Serving Communication in Sacred Unions
by William Mark Stierle, Yogi Times (February 2005)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.: Do you have Emotional Safety and Expression in your relationship? Imagine greater intimacy with your partner and ask them this question: "Tell me what you are most afraid to say?" The communication technique of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg provides a way to communicate with our partners safely and peacefully.
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Teaching Kids to Counter Conflict with Compassion
by Jackie Papandrew, BabyZone (January 2005)
Meeting each child's needs and instilling good conflict resolution skills are critical parts of the hugely challenging job of parenting. NVC Certified Trainer and coordinator of the NVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan is featured in this practical article for parents everywhere.
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Articles in the Media
2004

The Traveling Peacemaker
The Inquiring Mind: A Semiannual Journal of the Vipassa Community (fall 2004) © Inquiring Mind (vol. 21, no. 1)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.:
"Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., founder and director of education services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), is a traveling peacemaker. He visits about thirty-five countries every year to meet with people in places riddled with conflict, violence and suffering."
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Expert on Conflict Resolution Believes Nonviolence is in Our Nature
by Mark Sauer, San Diego Union-Tribune (October 14, 2004)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.: "In 1943, when Marshall Rosenberg was 9, racial tensions in his Detroit neighborhood erupted into a riot in which 34 people were killed. The violence left a lasting impression . . . "
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Deep Connections — Parenting with Nonviolent Communication
by Susan Start, Natural Parenting (Issue 9, summer 2004)
We all have needs. Attached to these needs are feelings. Needs and feelings make the world go round. Imagine a world where our own needs are valued regardless. Where our feelings can be expressed honestly and received with compassion and understanding. 
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Nonviolent Communication as an Evolutionary Imperative - The Inner View of Marshall Rosenberg
by Peter Moore, Alternatives Magazine (Spring 2004)
*Interview with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.: An in-depth, personal interview with international peacemaker and founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.
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US urged to pressure Sri Lankan government for peace
Tamilnet, Sri Lanka (May 16, 2004)
Students undergoing training on Nonviolent Communication Skills for Youths in the Trincomalee campus of the Eastern University, with the financial support of the USAID, Saturday told the visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Ms. Christina Rocca, in clear terms that the US government should exert pressure on the government in power in Sri Lanka to find a permanent peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict without anymore foot-dragging . . .
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USAID funds nonviolent skills training for Trinco youths
Tamilnet, Sri Lanka (April 24, 2004)
Students undergoing training a training program on Nonviolent Communication Skills for Youths was inaugurated Saturday in the Trincomalee campus of the Eastern University with the financial support of the USAID. Ms Brenda Barret, Regional Program Officer of the USAID in Trincomalee district was the chief guest at the occasion, sources said . . .
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Articles in the Media
2003

Getting to the Core of Conflict
Master Facilitator Journal (November 2003)
This week's article, "Getting to the Core of Conflict," explores a method called "Nonviolent Communication" developed by Marshall Rosenberg. This simple method has us help conflicting parties explore the feelings and needs they're trying to satisfy to develop more life-affirming strategies . . .
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Conflict Resolution Expert Will Speak
by Mason Inman, Santa Cruz Sentinel (October 26, 2003)
The Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication process offers effective tools to resolve common workplace conflicts.
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Resolving Conflict Between Your Managers
by Stever Robbins, Entrepreneur.com (August 11, 2003)
"Most any conflict can be resolved if people avoid judging others and speak openly and honestly, Marshall Rosenberg teaches in his method of nonviolent communication. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist, will deliver an introductory lecture on his method at the Rio Theatre Nov. 1, 2005 . . ."
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Reflections on a Compassionate Communication Workshop
by David Palmer, HopeDance: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope (July/August 2003)
"The NVC process is simple yet profound. Instead of using your mind to power the assumption that people are the enemy (to your own great detriment), the goal instead is to know what people are feeling and what their needs are . . . "
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Beyond Good And Evil: Marshall Rosenberg On Creating A Nonviolent World
by D. Killian, The Sun magazine (February 2003)
"I first met Marshall Rosenberg when I was assigned by a local paper to cover one of his "Nonviolent Communication" training seminars. Disturbed by the inequalities in the world and impatient for change, I couldn't imagine what use a communication technique could be in solving problems such as global warming or the debt of developing nations. But I was surprised by the visible effect Rosenberg's work had on individuals and families caught in conflict . . ."
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Articles in the Media
 2000-2002

Are you a jackal or a giraffe?
by Matthew Brown, Times Educational Supplement (TES) newspaper (December 2002)
A technique used to resolve conflict in war zones is getting a hearing in British schools. Matthew Brown investigates the healing power of puppets.
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Nonviolent Communication with Children
by Inbal Kashtan, Mothering Magazine (February 2002)
CNVC certified trainer and coordinator of the NVC Parenting Project, Inbal Kashtan explores the relationship between Attachment Parenting and the Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication process.
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Strategic Thinking: Learn to Communicate for the Greener Good
by Susan Burns, GreenBiz.com (September 2001)
A business communication expert describes how communication is key to effective organization change. The NVC process offers powerful tools to overcome the common barriers to effective organizational communication.
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Articles in the Media
 1998-1999

In the Gap between Right and Wrong
by Pema Chodron, Buddhism Study and Practice Group Newsletter (December 1999)
"When we talk about compassion, we usually mean working with those less fortunate than ourselves. ... However, in working with the teachings on how to awaken compassion and in trying to help others, we might come to realize that compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others . . ."
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The Language of Nonviolence
by Sarah van Gelder and Marshall B. Rosenberg, Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures (Summer 1998)
"Marshall B. Rosenberg travels the globe teaching Nonviolent Communication to diplomats, educators, corporate managers, parents, military personnel, peace activists, and others in over 20 countries. He has conducted mediation sessions in the Middle East, Sierra Leone, Croatia, and Rwanda. Sarah van Gelder interviewed Marshall when he was on Bainbridge Island to help mediate a dispute between developers and local activists."
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NVC in Application

Articles written by NVC trainers and supporters. Archived by area of professional and personal application, then in alphabetical order by article name.

Creating a Culture of Nonviolence:
A Conversation with Arun Gandhi
by Tiffany Meyer
A world-renowned speaker, author and social change leader, Arun shares the lessons of nonviolence instilled by his grandfather all around the world. In this conversation, Mr. Gandhi offers unique insight into the global peace movement - providing peace activists of all levels hope and guidance in how to affect nonviolent change.  
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I Had a Vision But No Roadmap: My Journey to Nonviolent Communication in the Classroom
by Paulette Pierce
"Before, I taught my students how to be passionate intellectual gladiators within a classroom structured to facilitate fierce debate and total victory. Now I show them how to open their hearts and share in the construction of a community designed to support the creativity of every member . . ."
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Using Nonviolent Communication to Heal from the Events of September 11 and their Aftermath
by Gary Baran, executive director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication
Empathy offers a powerful contribution in the wake of the 9-11 national tragedy.
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Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution
by Miki Kashtan
"Nonviolent Communication provides specific tools to empower ourselves and others to live more in line with our values and deeper needs. When we do that, we become more effective in relating to ourselves, other faculty, and staff, and we can contribute more to students' ability to feel connected and energized."
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Difficult Conversations: Authentic Communication Leads to Greater Productivity
by Martha Lasley
Imagine yourself at a tense planning meeting where the financial director reports, “To compete profitably, we need to lay off 20 percent of the workforce.”  The marketing director responds, “That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. We need to lay you off so we can hire new people who are serious about growing the business.”  Are you ready to add fuel to the fire, would you prefer to crawl under your chair, or do you have the skills to facilitate a conversation that could satisfy everyone in the room?
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Making the Most of Meetings
by Rachelle Lamb
Practical and proven skills for boosting meeting efficiency and enjoyment, based on the Nonviolent Communication process.
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Couple in Conflict: Ending the "He Said/ She Said" Game
by Ron Gibbs
"Power struggles, miscommunication, judgment, blame - isn't this the stuff relationships are made of? Not according to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a process founded by Marshall Rosenberg and taught worldwide, whereby compassionate connection is restored between couples through the use of some simple communication techniques . . . "
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Do you want to be RIGHT or have meaningful relationships? You can't have both!
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson uses humor to demonstrate the powerful impact of empathy in improving the quality of your intimate relationships.
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Finding Compassion in Divorce
by Susan Allan
“This year 70% of all U.S. marriages are expected to end in divorce. The Holmes Schedule of Stressful Events ranks divorce the second most stressful life experience, followed only after the death of a spouse. While some marriages end amicably, many end with partners feeling angry, resentful, or overwhelmed with emotional pain. When it is understood that more than half of all divorces render one or both partners homeless, clients admit that divorce is one of the most challenging experiences they may face.”
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Foreword: Speak Peace in a  World of Conflict (PuddleDancer Press,  2005)
by David Hart, CEO of the Association of Conflict Resolution
As I sit  down to write this foreword about the importance of Nonviolent Communication,  the world is still reeling from the bombings on the London subway on July 11,  2005.  We woke to learn that “it” had happened again.  We saw the  sites and sounds of violence and felt a deep personal connection to those who  were suffering and whose loved ones are suffering still . . .”
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Healing from the Blame that Binds
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
"Just as blame is a protective move based on fear and ignorance, compassion is a corrective countermove based on courage and understanding," says Bryson in this in depth exploration of the destructive power of internal and external blame. Learn to transform blame and moralistic judgment into a reconnection to human needs.
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How to Have a Fight to the Life (Instead of to the Death)
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson explores how to use Compassionate Communication to turn a "fight" with your ntimate partner into an opportunity to learn more about each other. Explore the use of empathy, the value of taking a step back to check into your needs and several options for facilitating compassionate connection in the midst of conflict.
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NVC Mediation: Creating Dynamic Connection
by Jori and Jim Manske, certified trainers in Nonviolent Communication
Certified NVC trainers and longtime professional mediators, Jori and Jim Manske, discuss how they integrated the NVC process in their mediation practice. As the authors state, “The nascent paradigm shift that emerged in spite of our conscious incompetence with the NVC process included two deep and lasting insights that have revolutionized our mediation practice.”
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An Experiment in Life-Serving Education
by Michael Dreiling
Nonviolent Communication offers a way to co-create the vision of education embraced by both critical and humanistic pedagogies: espousing values for social justice, interpersonal respect, inclusion, compassion, and personal and social transformation . . .
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Character Education that Really Counts
PuddleDancer Press • For Reprint Purposes
Four years at Riverview Elementary has taught eight-year-old Lydia Castro a lot about character. Words like responsibility, respect, trustworthiness and compassion are partnered with clear rules about right and wrong behavior in the school’s character education program — one of many nationally recognized programs implemented in schools throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Compassionate Communication and Waldorf Schools
by John Cunningham
NVC Certified Trainer, John Cunningham provides the case for the integration of Compassionate Communication in the Waldorf School model.
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Democratic Educators as Compassionate Communicators
by Thomas E. Kelly
Kelly examines how the Nonviolent Communication process can support the democratic educator's goal to "transcend narrow conceptions of teachers as classroom disciplinarians and instructional technicians." NVC provides constructive tools to improve the quality of the relationships they establish with their students.
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EDITORIAL: Partnership Education and Nonviolent Communication
by Rob Koegel
"Ultimately, whether we call ourselves holistic, progressive, or liberating educators, our goal is to infuse more respect and partnership into a world based on dominance and submission . . ."
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Emotional Safety Missing Factor in School Reform
PuddleDancer Press • For Reprint Purposes
The Compassionate Classroom co-authors Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson argue, “What’s missing from the discussion of school reform is emotional safety.” Hart and Hodson agree that smaller class sizes, or school-within-a-school models are definitely showing marked improvements in the way schools are run. Yet these benefits are significantly undermined by the communication styles, the punishment/ reward systems, and the power-over teacher-student relationships still present in many schools.
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If Your Child’s Emotional IQ Were Tested, Would They Fail?
PuddleDancer Press • For Reprint Purposes
State assessment scores are out, and once again schools have been ranked under the stringent criteria of the No Child Left Behind’s raise ‘em up or shut ‘em down policies. As schools reel or jump for joy under their latest label, leading brain research poses a new question: If your child’s emotional IQ were tested, would they fail?
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I Had a Vision But No Roadmap: My Journey to Nonviolent Communication in the Classroom
by Paulette Pierce
"Before, I taught my students how to be passionate intellectual gladiators within a classroom structured to facilitate fierce debate and total victory. Now I show them how to open their hearts and share in the construction of a community designed to support the creativity of every member . . ."
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Lessons from the Skarpnäcks Free School
by Sura Hart and Marianne Gothlin
Nonviolent Communication in the classroom starts with living it, not teaching it. Hart examines lessons learned from integrating the NVC process in Sweden's Skarpnacks Free School.
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Living the Ideals of Holistic Education
by Katherine Simon
"The NVC process holds the promise of fundamentally changing our experience as teachers, the experience of our students, and the norms of education more broadly. Highly compatible with the key values of progressive and holistic education, the ideas of NVC are much more specific than others I've seen about how we can interact in the moment with groups and individuals in ways that are in harmony with our deepest values . . . "
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Respect in the School Starts With Respect for Yourself
by Justine Mol
Translated from an article printed in a newsletter sent to all primary schools in the Netherlands. One of a series of articles about the Rosenberg School and working with Nonviolent Communication.
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Teachers Take Up New Tools to Battle Burnout
PuddleDancer Press • For Reprint Purposes
“Teachers who practice the Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process discover surprising wellsprings of power,” says Sura Hart, co-author of The Compassionate Classroom with Victoria Kindle Hodson. “They spend no more time on lessons than before, and they ride on higher levels of energy and optimism.”
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Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution
by Miki Kashtan
"Nonviolent Communication provides specific tools to empower ourselves and others to live more in line with our values and deeper needs. When we do that, we become more effective in relating to ourselves, other faculty, and staff, and we can contribute more to students' ability to feel connected and energized . . . "
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An Attempt to Define a Nonviolent Communication Approach to Addictive Behaviors
by Wayland Myers, Ph.D.
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How Detachment Can Be Loving for All
by Wayland Myers, Ph.D.
Dr. Myers describes how to achieve a healthful detachment from an addicted loved one; and how compassionate detachment contributes to needs met on both sides.
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Rehumanizing Medicine Through Compassionate Communication
by Miki Kashtan, Ph.D. and Monica Rosenthal, M.D.
Transforming patient encounters can simultaneously lead to increasing both patient and provider satisfaction.
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Using Therapeutic Communication to Connect With Patients
by Melanie Sears, MBA, RN
Empathic receiving and reflecting improves quality of patient-practitioner connections.
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Compassionate Communication: Confessions from a Cling-on
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using humor and anecdotes, Bryson helps us move beyond destructive inner dialogues to empathic connection.
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Couple in Conflict: Ending the "He Said / She Said" Game
by Ron Gibbs
"Power struggles, miscommunication, judgment, blame - isn't this the stuff relationships are made of? Not according to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a process founded by Marshall Rosenberg and taught worldwide, whereby compassionate connection is restored between couples through the use of some simple communication techniques . . . "
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Do you want to be RIGHT or have meaningful relationships? You can't have both!
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson uses humor to demonstrate the powerful impact of empathy in improving the quality of your intimate relationships.
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Finding Compassion in Divorce
by Susan Allan
“This year 70% of all U.S. marriages are expected to end in divorce. The Holmes Schedule of Stressful Events ranks divorce the second most stressful life experience, followed only after the death of a spouse. While some marriages end amicably, many end with partners feeling angry, resentful, or overwhelmed with emotional pain. When it is understood that more than half of all divorces render one or both partners homeless, clients admit that divorce is one of the most challenging experiences they may face.”
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Healing from the Blame that Binds
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
"Just as blame is a protective move based on fear and ignorance, compassion is a corrective countermove based on courage and understanding," says Bryson in this in depth exploration of the destructive power of internal and external blame. Learn to transform blame and moralistic judgment into a reconnection to human needs.
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How to Have a Fight to the Life (Instead of to the Death)
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson explores how to use Compassionate Communication to turn a "fight" with your intimate partner into an opportunity to learn more about each other. Explore the use of empathy, the value of taking a step back to check into your needs and several options for facilitating compassionate connection in the midst of conflict.
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The Price of Nice
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson explores some of the cultural conditioning that leads us to put our needs aside and be "nice" instead of speaking from our heart. Understand the impact of this "niceness"; as needs remain unmet, and our focus is continually drawn away from meeting basic human needs.
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An Attempt to Define a Nonviolent Communication Approach to Addictive Behaviors
by Wayland Myers, Ph.D.
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 PARENTING AND FAMILIES

Co-Parenting: A Commitment of Love
by Lyssa Clayton and Eva Schonveld
Georgia and Brendan are just good friends...and the proud parents of a beautiful little 15-month-old boy, Malakai Finn. Parenting has been an interesting journey for them as when Georgia fell pregnant, her and Brendan were living and working in different states and not in a committed relationship. This is their story....
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Giraffe Talk: Nonviolent Communication for Parents
by Lyssa Clayton and Eva Schonveld
NVC transforms coercive parenting into compassionate connection.
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Practicing Peace: The Language of Liberation
by Christine King
King explores how the NVC process contributes to mindful, compassionate presence in parenting and in life.
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Non-Coercive Self-Motivation
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using humor and anecdotes, Bryson presents a more life-enriching method for self-motivation that moves beyond the coercive strategies of punishment and reward.
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The Heart of Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Action
Includes: Parenting Quick Reference Guide
by Marion Badenoch Rose, Ph.D.
NVC helps us shift our thinking from good and bad judgments to heartfelt connection with ourselves and our children.
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Using Nonviolent Communication to Heal from the Events of September 11 and their Aftermath
by Gary Baran, executive director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication
Empathy offers a powerful contribution in the wake of the 9-11 national tragedy.
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Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution
by Miki Kashtan
"Nonviolent Communication provides specific tools to empower ourselves and others to live more in line with our values and deeper needs. When we do that, we become more effective in relating to ourselves, other faculty, and staff, and we can contribute more to students' ability to feel connected and energized."
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Compassionate Communication: Confessions from a Cling-on
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using humor and anecdotes, Bryson helps us move beyond destructive inner dialogues to empathic connection.
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Do you want to be RIGHT or have meaningful relationships? You can't have both!
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson uses humor to demonstrate the powerful impact of empathy in improving the quality of your intimate relationships.
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Healing from the Blame that Binds
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
"Just as blame is a protective move based on fear and ignorance, compassion is a corrective countermove based on courage and understanding," says Bryson in this in depth exploration of the destructive power of internal and external blame. Learn to transform blame and moralistic judgment into a reconnection to human needs.
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How to Have a Fight to the Life (Instead of to the Death)
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson explores how to use Compassionate Communication to turn a "fight" with your intimate partner into an opportunity to learn more about each other. Explore the use of empathy, the value of taking a step back to check into your needs and several options for facilitating compassionate connection in the midst of conflict.
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Money Fears: A Heart Dis-EASE
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using humor and anecdotes, Bryson helps readers explore the root of their relationship to money.
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Non-Coercive Self-Motivation
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using humor and anecdotes, Bryson presents a more life-enriching method for self-motivation that moves beyond the coercive strategies of punishment and reward.
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Non-Rushn' Unorthodox
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Through personal stories and a conversational style, Bryson helps readers make the important distinction between our anxiety-provoking, catastrophic-thinking related to hurrying through our day, and other more productive kinds of thinking such as planning or preparing. Learn to nurture your needs and get to the root of why you're rushn' around.
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Perfecting Your Selfishness
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Using stories, poems and anecdotes, Bryson helps readers develop a new understanding of "selfishness" - to help us always give of ourselves willingly and from the heart.
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The Price of Nice
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
Bryson explores some of the cultural conditioning that leads us to put our needs aside and be "nice" instead of speaking from our heart. Understand the impact of this "niceness"; as needs remain unmet, and our focus is continually drawn away from meeting basic human needs.
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Shaking the "Shoulds"
by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
"Should is a little hairball of fear that clogs the pipe connection to self and blocks our natural flow of passion, compassion and creativity . . . Compassionate self-acceptance is the Draino that frees our passionate being up so it can experience itself through doing."
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An Attempt to Define a Nonviolent Communication Approach to Addictive Behaviors
by Wayland Myers, Ph.D.
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How Detachment Can Be Loving for All
by Wayland Myers, Ph.D.
Dr. Myers describes how to achieve a healthful detachment; and how compassionate detachment contributes to needs being met on both sides.
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Nonviolent Communication for Prison Officers: Building Values-Based Relationships
by Patricia Dannahy Ph.D. and Josephine McHale MPhil, CPsychol, AFBPS
The authors describe an imaginary situation in a prison workshop: one of the inmates throws his pencil across the room. The instructor perceives this as a threat to his authority and tries to re-establish control. The situation quickly turns into a confrontation. They contrast this with what they predict would have happened had the instructor responded from an NVC consciousness.
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 SPIRITUALITY

Celebrating Mourning
by Christine King
On a recent vacation in a Mexican village, I was surprised to find myself in the midst of a community in mourning. Two days before I came, a 21-year-old girl had died in a car accident. Everyone in the town knew her and was openly affected by her death . . . “ King explores how public grieving can contribute to healing for all.
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Practicing Peace: The Language of Liberation
by Christine King
King explores how the NVC process contributes to mindful, compassionate presence in parenting and in life.
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