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Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
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Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.
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Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.
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Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
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What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
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If people just asked: Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs? the conflict would be easy to resolve.
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NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
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Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.
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When we judge others we contribute to violence.
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Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison) 2. Denial of Responsibility 3. Demand 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
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As soon as you say, are you feeling X because I ... Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.
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We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.
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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
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We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
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I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.
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Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.
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When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
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When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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