One way to transform our society so that everyone's needs matter is to focus on transforming organizational and business cultures using Nonviolent Communication.
Author: diankillian
Empathy: The Powerhouse for Personal and Social Change
As a basic human need, empathy can be deeply healing, clarifying, restorative, and liberating, and help us create positive change both internally and externally.
Listening as a Radical Response to Scary Times
These are scary and uncertain times. What will emerge? We don't know yet. We are in the midst of a pandemic, waiting for an effective treatment and vaccine (or herd immunity). In the United States, the unemployment rate is more than 20% and is approaching the height of the Great Depression. More than 100,000 people … Continue reading Listening as a Radical Response to Scary Times
Choosing Partnership over Domination
Guest blog by Shona Cameron, Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. I have recently revisited the work of Riane Esler and her view of humanity as being divided into two lenses through which we can view the world: Partnership: Life is interconnected and is a web of relatedness.Domination: Life is a pile with … Continue reading Choosing Partnership over Domination
Empathic Connection and Politics
Guest blog by John Kinyon, Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and teacher of Empathy and Mindfulness As I write this, it is just a few days after the U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump of impeachment. It is no surprise to me that Trump proclaimed himself completely vindicated and exonerated of any misdeeds. … Continue reading Empathic Connection and Politics
The Positivity of NVC: Getting Positive about Observations (Part 4)
By practicing observations in NVC, we are retraining our brains and neural pathways by stating what we’re experiencing in a positive way and being proactive: sharing what we’re seeing and hearing (observations), how it lives in us (feelings), what we want on a core level (needs) and then what we desire on a strategy level (requests).
Putting NVC Principles to the Test while Petitioning in NYC
While petitioning in New York City to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, I encountered many responses from people (ranging from very positive to very negative) and worked on my own reactions to remain out of judgment.
The Positivity of NVC: Requests (part 3)
Focusing on the positive by training our brains to listen for what we want (on a core level of needs) and then to ask for what we want (as opposed to what we don’t want) with a positive request leads to much better results than focusing on the negative.
The Positivity of NVC: Needs (part 2)
In my last blog post, "See Me Beautiful," I wrote about the “positivity” of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) on a philosophical level. Understanding this “positive” orientation of NVC is helpful on a practical level because once you “grok” this (get the concept and integrate it) it will give you more ease in practicing and living NVC … Continue reading The Positivity of NVC: Needs (part 2)
The Positivity of NVC: See Me Beautiful (part 1)
Lately, I have been fascinated with what I like to call the “positivity” of NVC. The more I think about this aspect, the more I see it as core to what I consider NVC’s “magic.” This “positivity” is what makes NVC powerful and transformative.
