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Needs are the expression of life through us.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.
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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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Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
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I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
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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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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
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When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.
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All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
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A respectful understanding of another's experience.
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Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
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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.
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Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
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How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
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Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
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When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.
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With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
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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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