Tag: Nonviolent Communication
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Is NVC Totally Nonviolent?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. That part of Rumi’s famous Persian poem is cited frequently because it points to a central value of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practice – nonjudgment and equality. If we resist the temptation to blame, we can then see others as equals,…
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Emotional Needs
NVC invites us to delineate between needs and strategies. A need is something intrinsic to our self-state whereas a strategy is a position we take in order to gratify our needs. We have physical needs and emotional needs. We drink water to meet the need of thirst. But why do we call a friend? Often…