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What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.
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You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.
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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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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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With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.
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Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
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We need empathy to give empathy.
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Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
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If people just asked: Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs? the conflict would be easy to resolve.
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Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison) 2. Denial of Responsibility 3. Demand 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
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What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.
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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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When we judge others we contribute to violence.
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As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.
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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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Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.
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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.
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The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
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