We wanted to bring you more information on Covid and Racism. We have added new podcasts and articles about these two very challenging issues that are foremost in our minds right now.

We have our brand new resource rich website covering over 35 categories/topics of interest and so much more. We are still working on this to add additional features and more valuable information to make it even more helpful. Please share with friends, family, colleagues and social groups, if you believe they might find value in this. We hope you agree. We welcome any and all feedback! Please stay safe and healthy for yourself, your loved one’s, for our first responders, for all of our front line workers and for everybody! Please visit us at www.nonviolentcommunication.com

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• Practicing Nonviolent Communication in Software Development
• Doing Conflict Better
• Raising Children Compassionately

• Acknowledging Other People’s Reality

• Thom Bond - A Conversation Between Two Americans; One of Them Black & One of Them White
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• Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hahn

• Marshall Rosenberg, Carl Rogers and more

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• Now You Belong in Heaven - Mari Olsen
• I Am the Light - India Arie
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"Only from the Heart can you touch the Sky"
Rumi

Having hard conversations is inevitable, but they don’t have to escalate. Here, two nonviolent-communication trainers share their tips for engaging in constructive dialogue.

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We hope you are staying healthy and finding your footing, at least in some ways, in the new world we find ourselves in. We are all navigating new paths, not only in the practical, daily activities we used to take for granted such as grocery shopping, getting a haircut, or holding a birthday party but also in family relationships that are being tested in ways we couldn’t have predicted...

Letter #3: Power-with Parenting
Letter #2: Take Your Time, It's Yours
Letter #1: Checking in With Yourself & Your Kids

Whether our conversations are IRL or on the internet, it can be hard to know the right thing to say right now. Mindful communication teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares his advice...

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“With Nonviolent Communication skills, you can help strengthen your relationship with your family, friends, coworkers, and even passers by on the street by fostering empathy and compassion for those with unresolved needs manifesting as “conflict mentality.”
-Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD.

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This is a generative conversation between Thom Bond (author of The Compassion Course) and Reverend Dr. Michael Christie (Chaplain). They discuss, race, fear, disconnection, slavery, universal human needs, police violence, and much more. It provides a perspective on where we Americans are, how we got here, where we’re headed, and what we can do right now.

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The Coronavirus Trilogy started out as a single episode in Thom’s podcast and turned into a mini-course on how to use the skills of The Compassion Course (and book) to get through our shared health crisis.

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Life-Enriching Education

Adding a dose of compassion to someone else’s day not only uplifts their spirits, but makes you feel happier, too. And while most of us intend to be compassionate beings every day, our hectic schedules and busy lives can often get in the way of simply being kind to one another.

The amazing thing though, is that even the smallest, most simple gesture can brighten someone’s day and make you feel more connected to others. Check out these 15 quick and easy ways to sprinkle compassion into your day—even the busiest person on the planet will be able to fit these onto the calendar. Take note of what happens when you introduce these small acts of compassion into your life...

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"Give up the role of master creator and move into the dance of life. "
Margaret Wheatley

For anyone who is inspired to have more compassion, understanding and harmony in their lives and in our world
Changing Lives for 10 Years, connecting in 15 languages, with more than 24,000 participants in 115 Countries.
Registration closes July 8th at 11:00AM EDT

What You'll Learn:

• Experience more harmony and understanding with important people in your life
• Have less painful, shorter conflicts
• Have more awareness of your needs, wants and desires
• Have your needs expressed and understood
• Increase congruence between your values and actions
• Translate judgments into dialogues & requests
• Increase harmony and understanding among others
• Stay more centered, open and effective in conflicts

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"The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one’s family, to one’s neighborhood, to one’s community and so on."
Dalai Lama

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"You have never done anything wrong. You never have. You never will. You’ve done some things, that if you knew then what you are learning now, you would do it differently. And (the fun part is), it will always be this way."
Marshall Rosenberg

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it”

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.”

“The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It is a direction not a destination.”

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic,
but when I look at people I am optimistic."

"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."

To learn more about Carl Rogers visit his Wikipedia Page.

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“Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The true strength of a man is known under pressure.”
Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
Mark Twain

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a world renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr.  

• Practicing Nonviolent Communication in Software Development
• Psychologist, conflict negotiator, and author Marshall Rosenberg developed Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in the 1960s as a framework for improving connection...
• Doing Conflict Better
• The NVC (nonviolent communication) trainer and writer Miki Kashtan investigates what makes some of her relationships largely conflict-free. “So far ...
• Raising children compassionately
• Marshall Rosenberg shares insights from 30 yrs of experience in teaching nonviolent communication to parents...

• Now You Belong in Heaven - Mari Olsen
• To all who have lost someone they love. This song is so beautiful. We hope that we will see our loved ones again, please let it be true...
• I Am the Light - India Arie
• Circle of Peace - Ziggy Marley

Acknowledging Other People’s Reality
Can you hold onto your reality while simultaneously acknowledging someone else’s reality? What I mean is, can you have an argument with your partner and speak up for your view of things, while also acknowledging his view? This ability is the ultimate goal. It eliminates right and wrong, good and bad. It demonstrates a willingness to accept that people may view things differently from us, and that we value their needs as much as our own...

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