Non Violent Communication

This is the call we ALL missed due to no provided pin number for the conference dial in!

Discussion Leader: Brenda Hardt

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,? instead of taking responsibility for our feeling independent of another person. We struggle to understand our own needs in the moment, or to effectively ask for what we want without using unhealthy demands, threats, or coercion.

At best, communicating and thinking this way in the home can create misunderstanding and frustration that perpetuate family conflicts. And still worse, it can lead to anger, increased stress for parents and kids, and even emotional or physical violence.

Since developing the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process in the 1960?s, Marshall Rosenberg?s vision has been to teach people of any age, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic background a much more effective alternative, and in turn to transform our family relationships one interaction at a time.
To date, more than 200 certified trainers and hundreds more teach NVC to more than 250,000 people in 35 countries on 5 continents every year. Around the world, NVC has been adopted by parent educators, schools, hospitals, Fortune 500 companies, government offices, university MBA and communication curriculum, community mediation centers, anger management programs, peace advocacy and social change advocates, inmate rehabilitation programs, and more.