Being Genuine brings Thomas d'Ansembourg's blockbuster French title to the English market. His work offers you a fresh new perspective on the proven skills offered in the best-selling book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Drawing on his own real-life examples and stories, d'Ansembourg provides practical skills and concrete steps that allow us to safely remove the masks we wear, which prevent the intimacy and satisfaction we desire with our intimate partners, children, parents, friends, family, and colleagues.

With this fresh, new perspective on communication learn to:

• Safely remove the masks we hide behind
• Overcome past prejudices and conditioned beliefs
• Purge your thinking and language of anything that generates conflict
• Accept responsibility for your feelings and actions
• Transform the fears that block us from connecting with others
• Create the space you need to connect with loved ones or colleagues
• Practice unconditional love each day

In this important training excerpt, Marshall Rosenberg demonstrates the powerful healing potential of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Transform emotional pain, depression, shame, and conflict into empowering connections. Rosenberg teaches that emotional pain is a signal that we have unmet needs. He provides simple steps to create the heartfelt presence necessary for significant emotional healing to occur. Learn how to transform your personal and professional relationships, and find satisfying reconciliation by moving beyond pain to a place of clear, honest communication.

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Through participant role-plays and every-day examples, Rosenberg demonstrates the key to healing pain and conflict without compromise. The healing power of NVC provides a practical and effective communication tool for individuals, mental health practitioners, mediators, families and couples.

Getting Past the Pain will empower you to:

• Transform shame and depression into personal empowerment
• Use empathy to address pain or conflict at the onset
• Get to heart of emotional pain quickly
• Strengthen your connection to your own needs and wants
• Let go of unhealthy communication habits that block empathy and healing
• Strengthen the quality of personal and professional relationships​​​​​​​.

In over 40 years of mediating conflicts — between parents and children, husbands and wives, management and workers, police and communities, and warring groups around the world — Marshall Rosenberg has learned it is possible to resolve conflicts peacefully, and to everyone's satisfaction. It's not compromise — it's a caring and respectful quality of connection between the parties in conflict.

Why not get to the heart of the matter? Most of us lack the vocabulary to express what we're feeling or needing, leading us to point fingers at someone as the 'cause' of our pain. When people sense that their feelings and needs are valued — and heard — it immediately helps reduce tension and hostility, opening the door for peaceful resolution.

NVC inspires genuine cooperation by focusing on the unmet needs behind the conflict. Whether you're a professional mediator or wishing to resolve a conflict with your spouse, child or colleague, NVC offers practical, usable technique to get to the heart of the issue.

We Can Work It Out will help you:

• Find mutually satisfying resolutions to conflict
• See the "humanness" of those with whom you disagree
• Let go of the enemy images and moralistic judgments that often lead to conflict
• Foster respect and cooperation by focusing on the unmet needs behind the issue
• Prevent future conflicts by making clear requests for future actions
• Develop professional and personal relationships based on mutual respect, compassion and cooperation.