NVC Monthly Newsletter

January 2024

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Events

Empathy Book Authors Share the Motivation and Outline of Their Book

Description: Authors of a book about empathy will have 10 minutes to share their motivation for writing their book and give an outline of what they covered in their book.

Upcoming Dates:

• Saturday, January 6th, 2024
• Saturday, January 13th, 2024
• Saturday, January 20th, 2024
• Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

13 Trainers • 18 Topics • 1 Amazing Weekend 

Friday January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2024

Description:

• Uncover the expansive possibilities of Nonviolent Communication in daily interactions
• Engage with 13 global trainers: Annabel Lemétais, Aya Caspi, Ela Ramos, Eric Huang, Julia Shen, Lorraine Aguilar, Magdalena Kosinska-Klaehn, Mary Mackenzie, Morris H Ervin Jr., Rodger Sorrow, Roxy Manning, Sarah Peyton and Shoshana Wheeler. 
• Connect with an international audience from novice to experts
• Immerse yourself in a festival of learning, fun, and community

Registration OPEN until January 15, 2024

Open to All Levels: Advanced Learners and Beginners Alike

Description:

This year-long deep dive invites the development of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as an art, a consciousness, and, in its fullness, a lifelong learning path for cultivating deeply connective relationships. At the heart of this course are simple yet deep personal practices for listening empathically through tough conversations, finding common ground, and speaking your truth with power and compassion.

You'll be immersed in a community of people learning, practicing, and applying Nonviolent Communication from the moment you sign up. 

Each of CNVC's IITs are hosted in different countries and languages in effort to expand their reach for all who wish to experience the depth of NVC and connect with a growing community of passionate learners and practitioners.

Upcoming IITs

• South Korea - Starts January 19th
• India - Starts February 23rd
• Poland - Starts March 15th
• Taiwan - Starts March 29th

This gathering is to remember Marshall Rosenberg’s gifts to us on the 9th anniversary of his passing

February 7, 2024 

10 am to 11:30 am PST

All certified trainers, candidates and friends of NVC are welcome.

Link to Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2166953683

Articles

Nonviolent Communication, or NVC, is an approach to interpersonal relating that recognizes a spontaneous generosity — a natural joy of giving — that is sparked when the quality of connection between us is high.

NVC distills and integrates the most important elements in language, thought, communication, and the use of power — to help you create this quality of connection!

When people are connected in this way, they naturally prevent and resolve misunderstandings and conflicts, and are able to create exceptional personal and professional relationships.

NVC has specific tools and principles — and is also underpinned by a consciousness and set of intentions.

By practicing the tools you can become more skillful, and able to handle highly challenging interactions.

The consciousness and intentionality of NVC can be summed up as the understanding that we are all motivated by the same underlying needs. When we can connect at this level of our shared humanity, we reduce stress and more easily find solutions of mutual benefit.

NVC can be applied at work, at home, in day-to-day interactions, in organizations, and at the highest political levels of governance.

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So here we are, freshly landed in 2024. At this stage in my life, I am never to quick to close the door to the previous year and imagine that I am starting the year from a blank slate. I am always standing in the wake of what has transpired and I prefer to bear it in mind as best I can as I consider where I may be heading. 

It's an ideal time to slow down, I mean really slow down, in order to pause and reflect. I appreciate the following questions that have nothing to do with standard notion of goal setting and making plans. Rather, they encourage me to place attention to how I give shape to my way of belonging to the place where I live and to the relationships I forge with others.

❤️ What does it mean to live here, now?
❤️ What does life ask of you?
❤️ Who is standing beside you?
❤️ Who is no longer walking alongside you?
❤️ Who did you bury?
❤️ Who is newly arrived and still in arms?
❤️ What kind of ancestor are you becoming?
❤️ What is your gift to this world?
❤️ How is your heart?

Probably one of the most crucial questions we can ask ourselves is what's important? The questions above help me to remember that what is ultimately important revolves around the health and maintenance of life itself and my manner of engagement with what life asks of me. There's something grounding about that .. about tethering oneself to the realities of living and making the feeding of life a priority instead of chasing after the best ways I can position myself for "personal success". 

If you have a few minutes, there's more in my New Year podcast episode.

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The more ugly the judgment, 

the more beautiful the need.

Marshall Rosenberg

Fundraisers

The Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio shares the principles and practices of Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as developed by the American psychologist, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, and inspired by the nonviolence teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Founded in 2006, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Columbus, Ohio, USA that works in partnership with other regional NVC organizations throughout the world, and with the international organization founded by Dr. Rosenberg, the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

A non-profit organization equipping people for practical peacemaking and restorative connections Help us share Compassionate Communication widely. Join in creating a more compassionate world and consider making one-time or a recurring donation.

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Book Specials

Humor

Poem

Always play it safe.

Be “right” instead of happy.

Carry a grudge.

Do ‘just enough’ to get by.

Engage your mouth when angry.

Forget what really matters.

Give up on your dreams.

Have a chip on your shoulder.

Impose limitations on yourself.

Just work for the money.

Keep walking on eggshells.

Leave words unspoken.

Make mountains out of molehills.

Not try, for fear of failure.

Obey all the rules.

Pretend to be someone you’re not.

Quit when the going gets tough.

Risk nothing, do nothing.

Sweat the small stuff.

"Try to please everybody.

Use blame, shame or guilt.

Value things more than people.

Wait for the other shoe to drop.

Xperience life as a spectator.

Yearn for the ‘good old days’.

Zip right through it.

© Meiji Stewart

Whether I praise or criticize someone’s action. 

I imply that I am their judge,

that I am engaged in rating them for what they have done.

Marshall Rosenberg

Handouts

• NVC Summary of Basic Concepts
• Key Facts About NVC
• The 4-Part NVC Process
• Feelings and Needs We All Have
• Differentiating Between Feelings And Faux Feelings from John Kinyon © John Kinyon, NVC trainer and author of Mediate Your Life
• First Gen NVCers - This is a link to the website and resources of First Generation NVCers, a group of individuals certified by Marshall before 1990. First Generation NVCers want to transmit NVC as they received it from Marshall. Their website shares their experiences with Marshall and learnings from him, plus stories about how CNVC & NVC developed.
• Giraffes Around the World CNVC Playlist with 200+ videos

• Cascadia Workshops – Intro to NVC Handout
• Street Giraffe – Handy Handouts
• NVC Next Gen – NVC Informational Handouts
• Radical Compassion – NVC Handouts
• Nonviolent Communication Handouts
• Marshall Rosenberg NVC Handouts
• Marshall Rosenberg Videos on Youtube

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism.

It just means they have not heard you.

Marshall Rosenberg

Book Excerpts

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Chapter 1

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The more people hear blame and judgment, the more defensive and aggressive they become and the less they will care about our needs in the future.

Marshall Rosenberg

Resources

NVC in the News

• How do we manage conflict? | Nation World News

There is no such thing as criticism. 

When we hear as criticism is a painful expression of a please.

Marshall Rosenberg

Learning

The NVC Academy offers hundreds of affordable online personal growth courses and resources to learn Nonviolent Communication from home.

Visit the NVC Academy

The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization that supports the learning and sharing of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.

Visit CNVC.org/learn/intensive-trainings

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things “because we are supposed to."

Marshall Rosenberg

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