There Is No Right or Wrong
The Gifts and Limitations Beyond Right and Wrong Thinking Would you like to explore NVC Paradoxes with me? Register for the workshop. I have lost count of how many times I have encountered the statement There is no right or wrong in NVC contexts. Workshops are devoted...
When Solutions Become Problems
The Evolutionary Pattern Behind NVC Paradoxes How every paradigm solves real problems, develops blind spots – and eventually calls forth something new. Would you like to explore NVC Paradoxes with me? Register for the workshops. For Those Who Don’t Want to Read...
Feelings Point to Needs Being Met or Unmet
After returning from a funeral in Poland, my wife and I enter the stairwell of our apartment building. We have travelled the whole evening. It is after midnight. We are tired and longing to go to bed. But we cannot enter our apartment. Someone has changed our lock! We...
NVC Paradoxes
When one perspective limits what we see I first came across Nonviolent Communication more than twenty years ago. At the time, I found a way of understanding human beings, both others and myself, that made a lot of sense to me. Instead of dividing people and actions...
Human Beings Enjoy Giving, When It Is Their Own Choice to Give
Human Beings Enjoy Giving – But to Whom? “Human beings enjoy giving, when it is their own choice to give”. This is one of the assumptions of Nonviolent Communication that I find both beautiful and challenging. Beautiful, because it points towards something many...
Level of Needs
How Our Relationship to Needs Evolves How is it that we can share the same universal human needs, yet experience, express, and prioritise them in such different ways? And could exploring human development help us understand how our relationship to needs evolves...
The Needs Quadrant
Four Dimensions of Human Experience How is it that people can describe completely different worlds while referring to the same situation? And could we better understand each other by expanding our perspective to include more dimensions of human experience? In this...
All Human Beings Share the Same Universal Needs
Same Needs, Different Worlds: The Double Edge Sword of Consciousness I have, for more than 15 years – ever since I first encountered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) – held the assumption that all human beings share the same universal needs. And even before...