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...
Welcome to Week 19 of the Needs’ Year! This week Joachim Berggren will have a conversation with Gabriel Stille about the need of Honesty. Gabriel writes: “Honesty is just key to any wholesome self-developmental journey! Like many others, I was first drawn to NVC...
“Maybe I should say he hurt me when he went to that NVC trainer instead of me? Or maybe I should say he has to talk to me before he talks to anyone else?” During a workshop at one of my first NVC festivals, two people had a conflict. One party of the conflict...
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...
For some of us anger can be seen as an information that there is something wrong with us, with others or with the whole situation. In some cultures there are different beliefs about anger or “angry people”. For example that “nice girls should not get angry” or that...
Welcome to a series of online workshops on blind spots where you will learn how you can discover and embrace your hidden parts. It is an online workshop consisting of four parts. Part 1 is about your dark blind spots. Part 2 is about your bright blind spots. Part 3 is...
Develop your inner power and communication skills to become a leader of your life The world needs self-aware and resilient leaders – people who know their strengths and are not afraid to use them in their everyday professional and private life! With this course we...
Marshall B. Rosenberg If it were not for Marshall B. Rosenberg, there would be no Nonviolent Communication (NVC) – or at least not in the form we know and not under that name. It is thanks to him that people all over the world take responsibility for...
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also called empathic communication, the language of the heart or the giraffe language, was created by the American psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg and aims at supporting dialogue between people and building societies based on...