Nonviolent Communication: A Variety of NVC Articles and Videos (Something for Everyone)

NVC Quick Connect September 2018

A Leadership Book To Add To Your HR Reading List

Post written by Successful HR executives from Forbes Human Resources Council offer leadership and management insights with this book recommendation

"Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. is hands-down one of the best books I’ve read as a business owner, as well as a husband and father. This book is not a new title, but for me, it does much better than other books at unveiling key principles and practices of exceptional communication. It’s also the first book Satya Nadella asked his leadership team to read, which is meaningful." - Ben Peterson, BambooHR

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September Book Special

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Effective nonviolent communication skills from the bedroom to the boardroom

In this fully revised second edition, Dr. Dian Killian and Dr. Jane Marantz Connor offer a comprehensive and accessible introductory guide to exploring the concepts, applications, and transformative power of the Nonviolent Communication process. Providing research-based insight into the psychology of communication, this reference explores the most common barriers to effective communication and provides tangible steps to address these barriers head-on. The book features an expanded selection of relevant, meaningful exercises, role-plays, and activities that give readers the chance to immediately apply the concepts to real-life experiences. With lessons including how to transform negative self-talk into self-empowerment, how to foster trust and collaboration when stakes are high, and how to defuse anger, enemy images, and other barriers to connection, Connecting Across Differences teaches effective communication skills that get to the root of conflict, pain, and violence peacefully.

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ARTICLES

This is Not Your Father's Microsoft
How a Few Offhand Remarks Can Cause Your Biggest Problems at Work
In Memoriam Marshall (One Man's Feelings and Thoughts)
Nelson Mandella Tribute Article
What's Love Got To Do With It? A Thousand Ways to Say, "I Love You" – in Giraffe.

VIDEO/AUDIO

Practicing the Basics of Nonviolent Communication with the KPFA First Voice Apprentices!
Nonviolent Communication: The Background, Purpose, Application, and Relevance in Our Lives
You Can't Heal What You Can't Feel: Benefits of Nonviolent Communication Across Differences in...
Cleaning the Slate

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Compassion in Action - Happiness is helping others
Marshall Wisdom With Illustrations - "The kind of spirituality I want is..."
Marshall Rosenberg: Where the Hell Does the Energy Come to Care for Humanity?

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Elin Errson - made her literal and symbolic stand, while on a plane carrying an Afghan man being forcibly repatriated.
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~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Articles

This is Not Your Father's Microsoft

BY Ian Sherr / Connie Guglielmo @ CNET

CEO Satya Nadella knew the culture at the world's largest software maker needed a fix. Employees and investors are sold. Now he's got to convince the rest of us...

As the new CEO, he inherited a senior leadership team he describes as a "more like a group of individuals," operating in silos. He asked each to read Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, a guide to building compassion in businesses and other organizations. He got managers to support one another, rather than snipe at each other. Pitch meetings that were famous for intense grillings became encouragement sessions.

And urged on by employees who want the company to have a social conscience, Nadella and his team took public stands on immigration and privacy, notably supporting Apple in its 2016 fight against the FBI's request to bypass the iPhone's security and calling privacy a human right.

The company also jettisoned the idea that Microsoft knows best. It's now obsessing (Nadella's word) about customers and paying attention to what people are saying about its products.

"Focusing on our customer, focusing on who we are and understanding that the products and service we build are a reflection of how we work with each other has been really critical to the changes I've seen at this company," says Phil Spencer, a 30-year Microsoft veteran tapped by Nadella to head the Xbox gaming team in March 2014.

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What's Love Got To Do With It? A Thousand Ways to Say, "I Love You" – in Giraffe.

By Dian Killian, Author of Connecting Across Differences

Love is a universal need. We all need it.

In fact, some Nonviolent Communication trainers say that all needs boil down to one primal need -- a desire for love.

For most people, experiencing “love” in some form is a crucial human experience. It’s literally linked to our survival (children without love, care or attention do not thrive or, in extreme cases, survive). Love is linked to larger desires for meaning, purpose, caring, intimacy, happiness, and belonging.

And yet, the words, “I love you,” can in fact be easy to say and sometimes even a throw-away phrase— at times rote, formulaic, or automatic.

For many -- at least where I live in the United States -- “love you” has become interchangeable with “good-bye” when closing a phone call with family or friends.

Saying “I love you” in such moments is as devoid of meaningful connection as someone saying by rote “thank you,” or “I’m sorry.” What does it really mean?

Thankfully, Nonviolent Communication offers an approach for expressing love in a way that is more likely to connect with other people... and be more meaningful for us at the same time! To learn more, check out my blog post here →

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

~Eckhart Tolle

Video/Audio

Practicing the Basics of Nonviolent Communication with the KPFA First Voice Apprentices!

Host Timothy Regan and the 44th group of KPFA Radio Apprentices explore the basics of Nonviolent Communication to create their new team and ... Four years ago, we shared the Kickstarter campaign of a movie focused on NVC parenting and many of your contributed, making it possible for the movie to be completed. Today we're announcing it's official release! Wrestling Ghosts was inspired by Parenting From the Heart, Inbal Kashtan's little jewel of a book, and is dedicated to Inbal's memory. Wrestling Ghosts is an intimate portrait of a young mother, Kim, and her efforts to heal her past in order to show up for her children and herself. Her journey (and the audience's) is one of mindfulness and of moving from judgement to compassion. Kim is supported along the way by NVC coach Joshua Hattaway. Wrestling Ghosts premieres at the LA Film Festival on Sept. 27th and will screen in the Bay Area on Sept. 29th and 30th. The Director and several of the cast (including Kim and Joshua) will be present at the screenings. Find out more and get tickets HERE. Enter code PuddleDancer to get a 20% discount on tickets in the Bay Area Screenings!

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Nonviolent Communication: The Background, Purpose, Application, and Relevance in Our Lives

Host Nancy Kahn reviews the history of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), purpose/intentions behind the practice (underlying principles and ...

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You Can't Heal What You Can't Feel: Benefits of Nonviolent Communication Across Differences in Health and Wellness

Host Nancy Kahn and guest, Dr. Meg Jordan, a global medicine hunter and chair of the M.A. program in Integrative Health Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) discuss the benefits of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Across Differences in Health and Wellness. Dr. Jordan is a world-traveled medical anthropologist, holistic RN, educator and journalist specializing in integrative health and behavioral medicine.

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Cleaning the Slate

Often, to contribute in the world in the way we want, we must unburden ourselves from the weight of regret and shame over things we have done to harm others and the pain and resulting reactivity that comes when others have hurt us. Host Marlena Willis shares and explores ways that nonviolent communication and meditation practices can support us in making amends to others and in healing from the harm others have done to us.

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"When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life."

~Eckhart Tolle

Other Good Stuff

Compassion in Action

Happiness is helping others

Other Good Stuff

Marshall Wisdom With Illustrations

Conceived by Meiji Stewart - Illustrator David Blasidell

Marshall Rosenberg: Where the Hell Does the Energy Come to Care for Humanity?

Marshall Rosenberg: Where the Hell Does the Energy Come to Care for Humanity?

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Elin Errson - made her literal and symbolic stand, while on a plane carrying an Afghan man being forcibly repatriated.

Dear all, Maybe you have seen, at some point in the last few days, the recording a young Swedish student - Elin Errson - made of her literal and symbolic stand, while on a plane carrying an Afghan man being forcibly repatriated.

Millions watched it both live and through the recording.

I have found it to be a remarkable demonstration of nonviolent fortitude and perseverance. I have also been inspired by seeing how inspiring it has been to so many more, sustaining ancient but marginalized models for what is experienced as heroism and showing the infinite creativity which which serving life manifests in a rapidly changing world.

Both her physicality and her language choices, through a whole sequence of choices made under pressure, exemplify in my eyes, in spirit when not in form, key distinctions that Marshall spoke of again and again..

My hope is that this example, as in so many other cases, some of which we might agree with and some not, none the less inspire action in defense of life wherever we are, with those with us, using whatever is available to us.

Here’s the complete footage:

https://scroll.in/video/887920/watch-a-single-swedish-students-protest-on-a-plane-saved-an-afghan-asylum-seeker-from-deportation

- Dominic

Note: There is rumor that this individual (Ismail Khawari) was not on the plane and that another Afghan, a 50+ year old man did, exit the plane. It is rumored that this 50+ year old man was a convicted abuser. In addition, authorities might investigate if Errson had committed a criminal offense by not following airline regulations, not complying with pilot request for her not to hold the flight. Though we applaud her empathy, love and compassion to be moved to Action, we do not condone abuse, nor potential criminal acts of noncompliance with airline regulation.

More Details Here:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-man-whose-deportation-elin-ersson-tried-to-prevent/a-44841129

http://www.savemysweden.com/the-man-elin-ersson-rescued-expulsion-convicted-abuse-sweden/

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New NVC Books

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I want to celebrate with you that now all of the six books of mine that are translated and published in English are also available as e-books.

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They can be bought through this link or in all the other ways you buy eBooks, Amazon, ITunes etc. The paper version is also available at Lulu, Amazon etc.

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