Speak from the Heart: Deconditioning and Nonviolent Communication for Nourishing Relationships
This article is about Nonviolent Communication and three important ingredients that make us better communicators. Actually, it’s about how to come back to open-heartedness in the midst of chaos in our attempt to relate. It is an article about taking your choice...
What is Self-Empathy?
In the blog post series “AI explains NVC”, Joachim Berggren (JB) asks questions about NVC to Alex Incognito (AI), a fictional character representing Artificial Intelligence in the form of the tool ChatGPT. *** JB: Hi Alex! After asking you questions and...
The Power of Strategies
A hidden treasure of NVC Nonviolent Communication (NVC) teaches that using needs often leads to a better understanding, shared reality and thereby a more harmonious connection between people. The main reason that needs have this power is that every human being has the...
Silent Empathy – Highlighting an Underestimated Practice
During my years of studying Nonviolent Communication (NVC), I have learnt to use the four components (observations, feelings, needs and requests) to create connection. A quality of connection in which my joy of contributing to others has risen. Through empathy and...
This changes everything – Artificial Intelligence explains Nonviolent Communication
The other day I was listening to the science news on Swedish radio. They talked about a new AI tool online – ChatGPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer). It is a machine learning program developed by the research organization OpenAI. The tool generates its own...
Empathy – The Needs’ Year (Week 18)
She looked at me with an appearance that many would interpret as annoyed. With her arms crossed, she leaned back frowning and waited for me to continue talking. We were both participants of EuroLife (a two year programme led by Robert Gonzales) and a small group had...
The four NVC steps in practice
The four NVC steps The four steps of Nonviolent Communication (known also as four components) help us to consciously use words in order to clearly express what we want. Using the four steps increases the chance of establishing contact and mutual understanding. They...
3 steps to receive NO from your child with empathy
I suppose we all would love our children to have courage to disagree when they are not willing to do something, especially when they are teenagers and prompt to be easily influenced by their peers. I can imagine that we, parents, share the dream of seeing our children...