Quote

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall B. Rosenberg
Use
Self
Engender
Way
Evaluate
Hatred
Communication
Growth
Ways
Rather

More quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Image
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
It's never what people do that makes us angry it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
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.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
Marshall B. Rosenberg