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We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

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Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
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Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.
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Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
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To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
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If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
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Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
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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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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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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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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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Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
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Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.
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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.
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Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!
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