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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?
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Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.
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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 are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
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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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NVC is a reminder to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
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A need is life seeking expression within us.
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When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.
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With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
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Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.
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The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.
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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.
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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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The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.
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Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
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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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Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.
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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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