About Compassionate Communication
also known as NVC
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What is Compassionate Communication?
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose — to think and communicate in terms of what is “right“ and “wrong“ with people.
We express our feelings in terms of what another person has “done to us.” We struggle to understand what we want or need in the moment, and how to effectively ask for what we want without using unhealthy demands, threats or coercion. As founder of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. says,
“What others do may be a stimulus of our feelings, but not the cause.”
At best, thinking and communicating this way can create misunderstanding and frustration, or simply keep us from getting what we want. It can also keep us from the fulfilling relationships we deserve. And still worse, it can lead to anger, depression and even emotional or physical violence.
Have a look at this vintage video - it explains about the concept of Jackal Talk and Giraffe Ears:
Find out more by going to our forum on
Empowering Conversation
and browse through NVC related posts and links
one special recommendation: http://www.listeningway.com/cctutorial-1.html