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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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Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.
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We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.
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We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.
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When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
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Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
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Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.
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Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
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We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
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If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
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Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
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Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.
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NVC is a reminder to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
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Nonviolent Communication is a way of keeping our consciousness tuned in moment by moment to that beauty within ourselves and others, and not saying anything that we think might in any way tarnish people's consciousness of their own beauty.
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I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.
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