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Individuals, couples, families, communities, and professionals from all over the world have experienced life-changing benefits from learning and applying the Nonviolent Communication process. The endorsements below provide a perspective on the depth of the application of these powerful communication skills.
To find endorsements of a specific book title from experts and authors around the world, please go to the Endorsements by Book/Booklet area.
To find endorsements based on the area of application (such as parenting, education, prisons, mediation or workplace communication), please go to the Endorsements by Application area. As you’ll see, some endorsements are repeated in more than one area of application.
Endorsements by Book/Booklet
The Compassionate Classroom
Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
Life-Enriching Education
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
NVC Companion Workbook
Parenting From Your Heart
Peaceful Living
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict
The Compassionate Classroom
by Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson
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“Education is not simply about teachers covering a curriculum; it is a dance of relationships among the people of the class. This how-to guide presents a wide range of powerful communication and relationship tools that will help each child discover and reach their potential.”
- Tim Seldin, president, The Montessori Foundation
“The Compassionate Classroom demonstrates the connection between learning and the relationships between students and teachers. It is filled with exercises and role-plays that could be introduced to the classroom to enhance understanding. This is a great curriculum development resource!”
- Jerry Mintz, Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
“This is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.”
- William Glasser, M.D., author, Schools Without Failure and The Quality School
“Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today’s teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading this book is the cornerstone.”
- Robert Muller, founder of the University for Peace in Costa Rica
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Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
by Sylvia Haskvitz
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“Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author’s humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating—and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food ‘issues’ in a language that is both liberating and comforting.”
- Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., physical therapist and author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses
“Change in the body must start with change in thought. If you have been unable to eat smart, despite repeated attempts, this is the book you have been waiting for.”
- Linda Prout, nutritionist and author of Live in the Balance
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Life-Enriching Education
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
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“Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners—where Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction—are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.”
- Riane Eisler, author, The Chalice and the Blade, Tomorrow’s Children and The Power of Partnership
“Nonviolent Communication offers homeschool parents, teachers and mentors a proven process and skills for creating a learning environment where students can truly thrive. I highly recommend it.”
- Dr. Thomas Gordon, author, Parent Effectiveness Training and Teacher Effectiveness Training
“Marshall’s book profoundly questions present-day thinking on education and educational structures. The principles in this book can generate more harmony in our classrooms, homes and societies. All educators and parents should have Life Enriching Education.”
- Dr. Jeannette Vos, coauthor, The Learning Revolution
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
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“Marshall Rosenberg's dynamic communication techniques transform potential conflicts into peaceful dialogues. You'll learn simple tools to defuse arguments and create compassionate connections with your family, friends, and other acquaintances.”
- John Gray, author, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
“Nonviolent Communication can change the world. More importantly, it can change your life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
- Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
“Nonviolent Communication is one of the most useful processes you will ever learn.”
- William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes
“As far as nonviolence and spiritual activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Applying the concepts within these books will guide the reader towards a fostering more compassion in the world.”
- Marianne Williamson, author, Everyday Grace and honorary chairperson, Peace Alliance
“Like Noam Chomsky, Rosenberg's work is intrinsically radical, it subverts our whole status-quo system of power: between children and adults, the sane and the psychotic, the criminal and the law. Rosenberg’s distinction between punitive and protective force should be required reading for anyone making foreign policy or policing our streets.”
- D. Killian, reporter, On The Front Line, Cleveland Free Times
“In this book you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what’s on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it’s simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.”
- Vicki Robin, co-author, Your Money or Your Life
“Changing the way the world has worked for 5,000 years sounds daunting, but Nonviolent Communication helps liberate us from ancient patterns of violence.”
- Francis Lefkowitz, reporter, Body & Soul
“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you’re facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”
- Anthony Robbins, author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
“In our present age of uncivil discourse and mean-spirited demagoguery, the principles and practices of NVC are as timely as they are necessary to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, personal or public, domestic or international.”
- Midwest Book Review, Taylor’s Shelf
“A revolutionary way of looking at language. If enough people actually make use of the material in Nonviolent Communication we may soon live in a more peaceful and compassionate world.”
- Wes Taylor, Progressive Health
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Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook
by Lucy Leu
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“The NVC Companion Workbook draws out the essential NVC elements in a way that is fun to practice and makes learning the material much easier.”
- Jeff Carl, author, Relationship Intelligence: Select and Nurture Healthy Relationships
“I have used this workbook now in two prison facilities. It has been a wonderful tool for men and women who are committed to gaining useful life skills in some of the toughest of environments.”
- Karen Campbell, workforce/lifeskills coordinator, Coffee Creek Corrections Facility
“Although the basic model of NVC is quite simple, the practice and understanding of connecting at the heart seems to be a continual learning process. We especially appreciate the opportunity to become aware of our habitual patterns —enabling more conscious choices—each time we participate in the practice of NVC during our 13-week course using Lucy Leu’s NVC Companion Workbook.”
- J.M.
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Parenting From Your Heart
by Inbal Kashtan
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“For those of us who live our parenting responsibilities as a call for inner growth and social transformation, Parenting From Your Heart offers a unique perspective. Filled with insights and exercises, it helps us prioritize connection, attend to everyone’s needs, look for the needs behind challenging behaviors, and to share power with our children.”
- Stephanie Mattei, La Leche League
“Parenting from Your Heart abundantly presents valuable principles applicable to many family situations. It is perfect for the busy parent searching for a quick read of practical and productive parenting ideas.”
- Win and Bill Sweet, authors, Living Joyfully with Children
“While there are other parenting books with insight into childhood, Parenting from Your Heart goes a step further, showing parents how to put theory into practice with their own child in a realistic, compassionate and effective way. This book is worth its weight in gold!”
- Jan Hunt, author, The Natural Child and director, The Natural Child Project
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Peaceful Living
by Mary Mackenzie
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"I really enjoy reading the daily meditations in Peaceful Living at the beginning or end of my day. As a busy health care professional, communication is critical to the success of my encounters with patients. Peaceful Living has provided me with helpful insights that have enabled me to be more effective and compassionate in my work."
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Dee Kaserer, Family Nurse Practitioner
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Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids
by Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson
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“Many parents won’t give up punishment because they think the only alternative is permissiveness. Other parents don’t understand the long-term dangers of permissiveness, but they sure don’t want to be punitive. This delightful book shows parents how to get the best results for their children with respectful parenting tools that are neither punitive nor permissive.”
- Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., co-author of the Positive Discipline series
“Gandhi advised us to ‘become the change we want to see in the world.’ Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids brings this time-honored wisdom up to date with simple, life-changing exercises. Know thyself. Communicate clearly, nonviolently, with purpose and respect and that is exactly how your children will treat you. This marvelous book shows you how.”
- Michael Mendizza, Touch the Future, founder of the Nurturing Project
“After decades of teaching and raising a large family, I can say with enthusiasm that Hart and Hodson have it right. This is a practical, generous, supportive, and loving book. A major help to parents.”
- Nel Noddings, Ph.D., author, Educating Moral People and Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy
“Refreshing, insightful, and informative, this book provides a long-awaited alternative to outdated parenting paradigms that are not satisfying for parents or kids. It helps parents focus on what is most important to them, and create deeper and more meaningful connections with their children. This is the best parent read since How To Talk So Kids Will Listen!”
- Brenda Harari, Ph.D., HEART in Education
“Articulate, practical, fun and extraordinarily insightful, this book is destined to become the new manual in parent/child relationships. More than theory, the seven keys are real-life tools for creating more joyful, cooperative, loving interactions with our children: a must-read, must-do guide without question!”
- Resa Steindel Brown, author, The Call to Brilliance
“I have practiced conflict resolution as a divorce attorney and mediator for 31 years. Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids gives me the first parenting book I can offer to clients confident that it will help heal the family pain and destruction from which they seek relief.”
- Steven Allen Smith, mediator and divorce attorney
“Superbly written and easy to read, Respectful Parents Respectful Kids is a powerful and practical guide for parents everywhere. For those of you who long for more cooperation, mutual respect, trust, and harmony within the family, this book offers concrete useful tools that will help you immediately begin this transformation.”
- Lisa Lifrak, MFT, marriage and family therapist
“We wish that we had the tools that we learned in this book when we first became parents 14 years ago. This book can give parents the confidence, language and skills to be the kind of parent they always wanted to be: understanding, compassionate, respectful and fun.”
- Carla Adivi, parent and middle school teacher
“Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids provides a valuable tool for parents to generate deeper compassion and connection. It will be a valuable addition to the Nonviolent Communication training I offer to my private clientele worldwide.”
- Susan Allan, America’s leading Marriage and Divorce Coach, and certified mediator
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Speak Peace in a World of Conflict
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
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“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominate human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.”
- Arun Gandhi, president, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, USA
“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it’s really any and all of us.”
- Dr. Michael Nagler, author, America Without Violence and Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
“Speak Peace is set apart from the fine body of literature on the subject of nonviolence by its fundamental intimacy with the complexities of human nature. Rosenberg brings us globally critical evidence that how and what we speak reflects who we are and embodies what we will become.”
- Dr. Barbara Fields, executive director, The Association for Global New Thought
“Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg’s instant classic is the stand out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If enough people read this book, the world will transform.”
- Hugh Prather, author, The Little Book of Letting Go, Shining Through, and Morning Notes
“Speak Peace in a World of Conflict offers a gift of spirit, theory and nonviolent communication experience from which every seeker of peace within and without can learn. It complements John Burton’s Deviance, Terrorism and War as a guide to mutual need-fulfilling processes of problem-solving to realize nonviolent conditions of global life.”
- Glenn D. Paige, author, Nonkilling Global Political Science; founder, Center for Global Nonviolence
“Speak Peace demonstrates how we can make our deepest yearnings for a harmonious world come true. Through stories and exercises, this book shows us simple yet subtle practices for creating peace—internally, externally, and institutionally. If you want to do your bit to create a happier world, get fluent in this process!”
- Diana Lion, associate director and prison program director, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
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Endorsements by Application
For your ease, we’ve ordered the area of application in alphabetical order. Scroll through the list, or click on a link below to jump to any of the following areas of application:
Activism/Social Change
Business/Workplace Communication/Organizational Effectiveness
Conflict Resolution/Mediation
Education
Health Care
Parenting/Family Communication
Peace Advocates
Personal Growth and Healing
Prevention (violence prevention, addiction prevention)
Prisons and Corrections
Relationships
Spirituality/Spiritual Growth
Activism/Social Change
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“Like Noam Chomsky, Rosenberg’s work is intrinsically radical, it subverts our whole status-quo system of power: between children and adults, the sane and the psychotic, the criminal and the law. Rosenberg’s distinction between punitive and protective force should be required reading for anyone making foreign policy or policing our streets.”
- D. Killian, reporter, On The Front Line, Cleveland Free Times
“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.”
- Arun Gandhi, president, MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
“ Rosenberg brings us globally critical evidence that how/what we speak reflects who we are and embodies what we will become.”
- Dr. Barbara E. Fields, executive director, The Association for Global New Thought
“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it’s really any and all of us.”
- Michael Nagler, author, Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
“Speak Peace in a World of Conflict offers a gift of spirit, theory and nonviolent communication experience from which every seeker of peace within and without can learn. It complements John Burton’s Deviance, Terrorism and War as a guide to mutual need-fulfilling processes of problem-solving to realize nonviolent conditions of global life.”
- Glenn D. Paige, author, Nonkilling Global Political Science; founder, Center for Global Nonviolence
“A revolutionary way of looking at language. If enough people actually make use of the material in Nonviolent Communication we may soon live in a more peaceful and compassionate world.”
- Wes Taylor, Progressive Health
“As far as nonviolence and spiritual activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Applying the concepts within these books will guide the reader towards a fostering more compassion in the world.”
- Marianne Williamson, author, Everyday Grace and honorary chairperson, Peace Alliance
“The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can’t ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.”
- Bernie Glassman, president and co-founder, Peacemaker Community
“ Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.”
- Johan Galtung, Founder of the first peace institute in Oslo, 1959
“Violence begins with language. If we can change our communication, we can change our consciousness. Then we can dance with others and create beauty and harmony instead of war and destruction.”
- Mel Sears, book reviewer
“I feel very blessed that Vipassana Meditation and Nonviolent Communication came into my life right around the same time. My relationships are now nourishing and clear, my actions are more deliberate and conscious, and my service to the world is coming from a more peaceful and positive place within.”
- Tricia King, Bellingham WA
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple process that eliminates the competitive, adversarial, and violence provocative style of communication that has infected most of our lives.”
- Chuck McDougal, book reviewer
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Business/Workplace Communication/Organizational Effectiveness
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“Nonviolent Communication is a simple yet powerful methodology for communicating in a way that meets both parties’ needs. This is one of the most useful books you will ever read.”
- William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
“The NVC process is truly an effective tool in solving problems and differences among individuals. I hold great hope for the tools NVC offers as a means of being a successful organization from top to bottom.”
- Scott Beethe, practice administrator
“NVC consulting has helped the members of our organization to connect and communicate effectively.”
- Nate Stewart, MD, orthopedic surgeon
“As a family physician, I have used NVC in my daily work with patients for almost 10 years. We have much more of a cooperative relationship than before, and NVC has helped me and my patients save time and unnecessary investigations and visits. As a leader of a health care center for about 18 years, NVC has helped me create a climate of trust, understanding and joy for my staff.”
- Ola Schenstrom, MD, chief physician and family physician; Lulea, Sweden
“I’m now finding myself communicating my needs and my business needs more clearly, with better results—and I’m spending less energy and time achieving it.”
- Keith Cooper, owner, Alphagraphics Palo Verde; Tucson, Arizona
“We’ve developed new habits of thinking that help us resolve conflict peacefully, communicate more effectively as a team, and to increase morale, profits and productivity.”
- Valerie Becker, director, human resources; Horizon Moving Systems (part of the United Van Lines network)
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple process that eliminates the competitive, adversarial, and violence provocative style of communication that has infected most of our lives.”
- Chuck McDougal, book reviewer
“I had come to realize that my old communication style was very judgmental and full of faultfinding. Both my work associates and I were unhappy. My life is significantly changed due to practicing the Nonviolent Communication process. I am more settled and relaxed even when I am busy. I no longer feel the need to discover fault or place blame. Everyone is happy to be working with me for the first time in my 33 years of owning and operating my own business.”
- A businessman in California
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Conflict Resolution/Mediation
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“Dr. Rosenberg has added his thoughtful voice to an important conversation. His approach is insightful, provocative, and is sure to spark discussion. Speak Peace helps engage us in a vital dialogue that allows us to look within and ask ourselves what role we can play in making the world a better place.”
- David Hart, CEO, Association for Conflict Resolution (not endorsed by ACR, title provided for identification purposes only)
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple yet powerful methodology for communicating in a way that meets both parties’ needs. This is one of the most useful books you will ever read.”
- William Ury, co-author, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it’s really any and all of us.”
- Michael Nagler, author, Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
“We have lived traumatic moments over and over again—moments of fear and panic, incomprehension, frustrations, disappointment, and injustice of all sorts, with no hope of escape—which made it even worse. The NVC process offers us a peaceful alternative for ending this interminable Rwandan conflict.”
- Theodore Nyilidandi, Rwandan Dept. of Foreign Affairs; Kigali, Rwanda
“Speak Peace in a World of Conflict offers a gift of spirit, theory and nonviolent communication experience from which every seeker of peace within and without can learn. It complements John Burton's Deviance, Terrorism and War as a guide to mutual need-fulfilling processes of problem-solving to realize nonviolent conditions of global life.”
- Glenn D. Paige, author, Nonkilling Global Political Science; founder, Center for Global Nonviolence
“Changing the way the world has worked for 5,000 years sounds daunting, but Nonviolent Communication helps liberate us from ancient patterns of violence.”
- Francis Lefkowitz, reporter, Body & Soul
“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you’re facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”
- Anthony Robbins, author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
“In our present age of uncivil discourse and mean-spirited demagoguery, racial hatreds and ethnic intolerance, the principles and practices outlined in Nonviolent Communication are as timely as they are necessary to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, personal or public, domestic or international.”
- Midwest Book Review, Taylor’s Shelf
“For convicts immersed in an environment which intensifies and reinforces conflict, discovering a step-by-step methodology advocating compassion through communication is enormously liberating. More than solely a potent means to communicate, the NVC process effects fundamental and irrevocable shifts in patterns of perception and interaction.”
- Dow Gordon, Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, Minimum Security Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, WA
“Perhaps I've benefited the most from this tools in how I've applied it to my own self-talk—my inner dialog. It's helped me to translate judgments and self-criticisms, so that I could see what was the life-connected impulse they were coming from. Then it was easy and joyful to change without any ‘shoulds.’ I can't say enough good things about my experience with this tool.”
- Alan Seid, Vipassana, Bellingham WA
“Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people—even if you (or they) are angry.”
- Joe Vitale, author, Spiritual Marketing, The Power of Outrageous Marketing
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple process that eliminates the competitive, adversarial, and violence provocative style of communication that has infected most of our lives.”
- Chuck McDougal, book reviewer
“Not only does the NVC process improve communication, but it works within us, requiring us to examine our own emotions and ways of thinking about others before we speak. Thus it is an excellent tool for personal growth and transformation as well as peaceful communication. ‘Let peace begin with me’ could be the NVC motto.”
- Kittrell McCord, Tucson Community Meditation Center, Tucson AZ
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Education
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“Education is not simply about teachers covering a curriculum; it is a dance of relationships among the people of the class. This how-to guide presents a wide range of powerful communication and relationship tools that will help each child discover and reach their potential.”
- Tim Seldin, president, The Montessori Foundation
“Nonviolent Communication is a practical and necessary work that should be required reading by every state department of education in the nation, and adopted for immediate and continuous use in our school districts. Nationally, we talk peace. This book goes far beyond mere talk—it shows us how to TEACH peace.”
- James E. Shaw, Ph.D., author, Jack and Jill, Why They Kill
“ Marshall's unique message gives teachers easy steps for peaceful communication and a new way to work with children and parents.”
- Barbara Moffitt, executive director, National Center for Montessori Educators
“Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners—where Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction—are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.”
- Riane Eisler, author, The Chalice and the Blade, Tomorrow’s Children and The Power of Partnership
“The Compassionate Classroom demonstrates the connection between learning and the relationships between students and teachers. It is filled with exercises and role-plays that could be introduced to the classroom to enhance understanding. This is a great curriculum development resource!”
- Jerry Mintz, Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
“The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.”
- William Glasser, MD, author, Schools Without Failure and The Quality School
“Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today’s teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading this book is the cornerstone.”
- Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and co-founder of the University for Peace in Costa Rica
“As a school counselor, I implemented a 2 year anti-bullying program at the international school where I currently work. I used Marshall's work & wisdom throughout the program and am happy to report that we reduced bullying by 26% (as reported on a student questionnaire designed by Dr. Dan Olweus).”
- Nicki Ruud, Ed.D., school counselor, International School of Helsinki
“I appreciate how well Nonviolent Communication reduces a very complex and needful topic to utter simplicity.”
- Hal Doiron, director, Columbine Community Citizen’s Task Force
“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.”
- Ron Rubin, safe schools consultant, Vermont Department of Education
“With the growth in today's dysfunctional families and the increase of violence in our schools, Nonviolent Communication is a godsend.”
- Linda C. Stoehr, reporter, Los Colinas Business News
“All adults should learn how to use the skills expressed in Dr. Rosenberg’s book. The outcome would be that children would be accustomed to the language of positive, nonviolent forms of communication that will aid them throughout their lives. Dr. Rosenberg, you are a peacemaker!”
- Nancy Sager, principal, Sante Fe Montessori School
“Marshall’s book profoundly questions present-day thinking on education and educational structures. The principles in this book can generate more harmony in our classrooms, homes and societies. All educators and parents should have Life-Enriching Education.”
- Dr. Jeannette Vos, coauthor, The Learning Revolution
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Health Care
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“As a family physician, I have used NVC in my daily work with patients for almost 10 years. We have much more of a cooperative relationship than before, and NVC has helped me and my patients save time and unnecessary investigations and visits. As a leader of a health care center for about 18 years, NVC has helped me create a climate of trust, understanding and joy for my staff.”
- Ola Schenstrom, MD, chief physician and family physician; Lulea, Sweden
“Change in the body must start with change in thought. If you have been unable to eat smart, despite repeated attempts, Eat by Choice, Not by Habit is the book you have been waiting for.”
- Linda Prout, nutritionist and nutrition director
“Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author’s humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating—and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food “issues” in a language that is both liberating and comforting.”
- Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., physical therapist and author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses
“The NVC process is truly an effective tool in solving problems and differences among individuals. I hold great hope for the tools NVC offers as a means of being a successful organization from top to bottom.”
- Scott Beethe, practice administrator
“My use of NVC has totally transformed my practice. I have changed from an irritated, impatient practitioner to a compassionate, understanding and loving health care provider.”
-Lt. JoAnn Burton, RN, Newport Beach, CA
“Nonviolent Communication has positively changed both my personal life and medical practice. I now listen not just with my mind but also from the heart.”
- Anton Butie, MD, Del Mar, CA
“NVC consulting has helped the members of our organization to connect and communicate effectively.”
- Nate Stewart, MD, orthopedic surgeon
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Parenting/Family Communication
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“With the growth in today's dysfunctional families and the increase of violence in our schools, Nonviolent Communication is a godsend.”
- Linda C. Stoehr, reporter, Los Colinas Business News
“For those of us who live our parenting responsibilities as a call for inner growth and social transformation, Parenting From Your Heart offers a unique perspective. Filled with insights and exercises, it helps us prioritize connection, attend to everyone’s needs, look for the needs behind challenging behaviors, and to share power with our children.”
- Stephanie Mattei, La Leche League
“Parenting from Your Heart abundantly presents valuable principles applicable to many family situations. It is perfect for the busy parent searching for a quick read of practical and productive parenting ideas.”
- Win and Bill Sweet, authors, Living Joyfully with Children
“While there are other parenting books with insight into childhood, Parenting from Your Heart goes a step further, showing parents how to put theory into practice with their own child in a realistic, compassionate and effective way. This book is worth its weight in gold!”
- Jan Hunt, author, The Natural Child and director, The Natural Child Project Society
“All adults should learn how to use the skills expressed in Dr. Rosenberg’s book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. The outcome would be that children would be accustomed to the language of positive, nonviolent forms of communication that will aid them throughout their lives. Dr. Rosenberg, you are a peacemaker!”
- Nancy Sager, principal, Santa Fe Montessori School
“In addition to saving our marriage, Marshall’s work is helping us to repair our relationships with our grown children and to relate more deeply with our parents and siblings. Marshall has shown a way to not only live, speak and act nonviolently, but a way to do so without sacrificing or compromising yourself or others.”
- A reader in Arizona
“Nonviolent Communication allowed me to overcome my toxic conditioning and find the loving parent and person that was locked inside.”
- A nurse in California
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Peace Advocates
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“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.”
- Arun Gandhi, president, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
“As far as nonviolence and spiritual activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Applying the concepts within these books will guide the reader towards a fostering more compassion in the world.”
-Marianne Williamson, author, Everyday Grace and honorary chairperson, Peace Alliance
“The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can’t ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship—if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.”
- Bernie Glassman, president and co-founder, Peacemaker Community
“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it’s really any and all of us.”
- Michael Nagler, author, Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
“Rosenberg brings us globally critical evidence that how/what we speak reflects who we are and embodies what we will become.”
-Dr. Barbara E. Fields, executive director, The Association for Global New Thought
“Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.”
-Johan Galtung, Founder of the first peace institute in Oslo, 1959
“We have lived traumatic moments over and over again—moments of fear and panic, incomprehension, frustrations, disappointment, and injustice of all sorts, with no hope of escape—which made it even worse. The NVC process offers us a peaceful alternative for ending this interminable Rwandan conflict.”
- Theodore Nyilidandi, Rwandan Dept. of Foreign Affairs; Kigali, Rwanda
“Like Noam Chomsky, Rosenberg's work is intrinsically radical, it subverts our whole status-quo system of power: between children and adults, the sane and the psychotic, the criminal and the law. Rosenberg’s distinction between punitive and protective force should be required reading for anyone making foreign policy or policing our streets.”
- D. Killian, reporter, On The Front Line, Cleveland Free Times
“No matter what the issue may be that serves to separate us from others, whether it is sexual orientation, gender, or racial differences, NVC is a process that can bring us back into connection, and help us to honor and appreciate our differences and celebrate our common needs.”
- Carol Placer, Association of Women in Psychology, Northern Arizona contact
“Not only does the NVC process improve communication, but it works within us, requiring us to examine our own emotions and ways of thinking about others before we speak. Thus it is an excellent tool for personal growth and transformation as well as peaceful communication. ‘Let peace begin with me’ could be the NVC motto.”
- Kittrell McCord, Tucson Community Meditation Center, Tucson AZ
“In our present age of uncivil discourse and mean-spirited demagoguery, racial hatreds and ethnic intolerance, the principles and practices outlined in Nonviolent Communication are as timely as they are necessary to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, personal or public, domestic or international.”
- Midwest Book Review, Taylor’s Shelf
“A revolutionary way of looking at language. If enough people actually make use of the material in Nonviolent Communication we may soon live in a more peaceful and compassionate world.”
- Wes Taylor, Progressive Health
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple process that eliminates the competitive, adversarial, and violence provocative style of communication that has infected most of our lives.”
- Chuck McDougal, book reviewer
“All adults should learn how to use the skills expressed in Dr. Rosenberg’s book. The outcome would be that children would be accustomed to the language of positive, nonviolent forms of communication that will aid them throughout their lives. Dr. Rosenberg, you are a peacemaker!”
- Nancy Sager, principal, Sante Fe Montessori School
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Personal Growth and Healing
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“Perhaps I've benefited the most from this tools in how I've applied it to my own self-talk—my inner dialog. It's helped me to translate judgments and self-criticisms, so that I could see what was the life-connected impulse they were coming from. Then it was easy and joyful to change without any ‘shoulds.’ I can't say enough good things about my experience with this tool.”
- Alan Seid, Vipassana, Bellingham WA
“Years of meditation and spiritual study left me with discouragement at my inability to implement the resulting high ideals. The Nonviolent Communication process turned out to be the liberating key that is showing me how to put spiritual teachings into concrete practice in my daily life.”
- Lin Rose, Bellevue WA
“I have found the NVC practice to be a powerful complement to the Buddhist teachings on right speech. While the Dharma helps me know which forms of speech to avoid, NVC shows me how to use language in ways that build more compassionate connections with others.”
- Tom Pedulla, member, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge MA
“Nonviolent Communication has catalyzed a process of clarification/healing/empowerment in me that I could never have imagined. This process has impacted every area of my life, and continues to unfold. For me, it unifies the spiritual truths I’ve found in all the world’s religions. It facilitates and strengthens connections to others and its truths are experientially testable.”
-A reader in Florida
“Nonviolent Communication allowed me to overcome my toxic conditioning and find the loving parent and person that was locked inside.”
- A nurse in California
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Prevention (violence prevention, addiction prevention)
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“I appreciate how well Nonviolent Communication reduces a very complex and needful topic to utter simplicity.”
- Hal Doiron, director, Columbine Community Citizen’s Task Force
“Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it’s really any and all of us.”
- Michael Nagler, author, Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future
“Nonviolent Communication is a practical and necessary work that should be required reading by every state department of education in the nation, and adopted for immediate and continuous use in our school districts. Nationally, we talk peace. This book goes far beyond mere talk — it shows us how to TEACH peace.”
- James E. Shaw, Ph.D., author, Jack and Jill, Why They Kill
“Changing the way the world has worked for 5,000 years sounds daunting, but Nonviolent Communication helps liberate us from ancient patterns of violence.”
- Francis Lefkowitz, reporter, Body & Soul
“I highly recommend Nonviolent Communication to anyone interested in resolving conflicts, creating more intimate relationships, or exploring the connection between language and violence.”
- Kate Lin, reporter, The New Times
“Violence begins with language. If we can change our communication, we can change our consciousness. Then we can dance with others and create beauty and harmony instead of war and destruction.”
- Mel Sears, California
“Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.”
- Ron Rubin, safe schools consultant, Vermont Department of Education
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Prisons and Corrections
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“For convicts immersed in an environment which intensifies and reinforces conflict, discovering a step-by-step methodology advocating compassion through communication is enormously liberating. More than solely a potent means to communicate, the NVC process effects fundamental and irrevocable shifts in patterns of perception and interaction.”
- Dow Gordon, Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, Minimum Security Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, WA
“Like Noam Chomsky, Rosenberg's work is intrinsically radical, it subverts our whole status-quo system of power: between children and adults, the sane and the psychotic, the criminal and the law. Rosenberg’s distinction between punitive and protective force should be required reading for anyone making foreign policy or policing our streets.”
- D. Killian, reporter, On The Front Line, Cleveland Free Times
“NVC provides the skills to connect on a heart level with every individual while practicing mindfulness and the Eightfold Path. Both the books and the NVC workshops will cultivate a heart of compassion.”
- Rusty Thomas, Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, Minimal Security Unit, Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, WA
“I have used the NVC Companion Workbook now in two prison facilities. It has been a wonderful tool for men and women who are committed to gaining useful life skills in some of the toughest of environments.”
- Karen Campbell, workforce/lifeskills coordinator, Coffee Creek Corrections Facility
“If you care about healing the offender and the victims in the community, then it’s paramount that beginnings be made. The Nonviolent Communication process is a very large step toward this goal.”
- A prison inmate
“I have been volunteering and leading a cadre of volunteers in a Low-Medium Security federal men's prison in Victoria, BC ( Canada) for the past seven years. It was, in fact, at the prison that I first heard Marshall speak. I have since incorporated NVC consciousness in my work with this group as well as in other areas in my life and have found it profoundly life-changing. I have a huge gratitude to my friend for her insisting that I make time to attend that life-changing workshop with Marshall last year.”
- Michele Favarger, volunteer, Low-Medium security federal men’s prison, Victoria BC
“I want to thank you for the Nonviolent Communication book. It is a fantastic book. It’s helping me to reflect on a lot of things. It means a lot to me to have people believe in me. Everyone that received the books here at the prison appreciates your support. Thank you and God bless you all.”
- T.D., Woman’s Facility, Norco State Prison, Norco CA
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Relationships
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“Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.”
- Deepak Chopra, author, How to Know God and Ageless Body and Timeless Mind
“Marshall Rosenberg's dynamic communication techniques transform potential conflicts into peaceful dialogues. You'll learn simple tools to defuse arguments and create compassionate connections with your family, friends, and other acquaintances.”
- John Gray, Ph.D., author, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
“I believe the principles and techniques in Nonviolent Communication can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
- Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you’re facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”
- Anthony Robbins, author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
“In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what’s on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it’s simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.”
- Vicki Robin, co-author, Your Money or Your Life
“Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.”
- Hugh Prather, author, The Little Book of Letting Go, Shining Through, and Morning Notes
“We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.”
- Dr. Thomas Gordon, author, Parent Effectiveness Training
“I highly recommend Nonviolent Communication to anyone interested in resolving conflicts, creating more intimate relationships, or exploring the connection between language and violence.”
- Kate Lin, reporter, The New Times
“Rosenberg describes how, in numerous conflicts, once ‘enemies’ have been able to hear each other’s needs, they are able to connect compassionately and find new solutions to previously ‘impossible’ impasses. If you want to learn ways of more skillful speech I highly recommend this clear, easy-to-read book.”
- Diana Lion, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Turning Wheel Magazine
“Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.”
- Riane Eisler, author, The Chalice and the Blade, Tomorrow’s Children and The Power of Partnership
“In addition to saving our marriage, Marshall’s work is helping us to repair our relationships with our grown children and to relate more deeply with our parents and siblings. Marshall has shown a way to not only live, speak and act nonviolently, but a way to do so without sacrificing or compromising yourself or others.”
- A reader in Arizona
“My relationship with my husband, which was good already, has become even better. I have taught the method to many parents who have reported having gained a deeper understanding of their children, thus enhancing their relationship and decreasing tension and conflict.”
- A reader in Illinois
“No matter what the issue may separate us, NVC can help us appreciate our differences and celebrate our common needs.”
- Carol Placer, Association of Women in Psychology, Northern Arizona contact
“Perhaps I've benefited the most from this tools in how I've applied it to my own self-talk—my inner dialog. It's helped me to translate judgments and self-criticisms, so that I could see what was the life-connected impulse they were coming from. Then it was easy and joyful to change without any ‘shoulds.’ I can't say enough good things about my experience with this tool.”
- Alan Seid, Vipassana, Bellingham WA
“Relationships with our children, spouses, parents, loved ones, and people in positions of authority often tend to ‘trigger’ emotional reactions, which seem out of proportion to the immediate stress at hand. Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication offers a way for us to practice being mindful of our emotions with the focus of attention on our use of language and communication.”
- Bruce Eisenorf, MD
“I am sure that each time I read this book, I will become better at empathetically responding to people who up to now I had decided were too toxic to deal with.”
- Carmen Matthews, San Diego CA
“Without an ounce of hesitation, I can say this book and these ideas have had a profound, deep, and lasting impact on my life, improved my relationships, increased the clarity and consciousness with which I use language, and strengthened my intention to live a loving, compassionate life.”
- Mark J. Goodman
“Nonviolent Communication is a simple process that eliminates the competitive, adversarial, and violence provocative style of communication that has infected most of our lives.”
- Chuck McDougal, book reviewer
“All adults should learn how to use the skills expressed in Dr. Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication. The outcome would be that children would be accustomed to the language of positive, nonviolent forms of communication that will aid them throughout their lives. Dr. Rosenberg, you are a peacemaker!”
- Nancy Sager, principal, Santa Fe Montessori School
“Nonviolent Communication has catalyzed a process of clarification/healing/empowerment in me that I could never have imagined. This process has impacted every area of my life, and continues to unfold. For me, it unifies the spiritual truths I’ve found in all the world’s religions. It facilitates and strengthens connections to others and its truths are experientially testable.”
- A reader in Florida
“Nonviolent Communication allowed me to overcome my toxic conditioning and find the loving parent and person that was locked inside.”
- A nurse in California
“Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life practices what it preaches, and I found the step-by-step approach, exercises and examples to be clear and easy to practice.”
- A reader in Maryland
“I have never read a clearer, more straightforward, insightful book on communication. After studying and teaching assertiveness since the ‘70s, this book is a breath of fresh air. Nonviolent Communication adds brilliant insight into the linkage of feelings and needs and taking responsibility and creates a true tool. Amazingly easy to read, great examples, and challenging to put into practice—this book is a true gift to all of us.”
- A reader in Washington state
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Spirituality/Spiritual Growth
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“We should all be grateful to Marshall Rosenberg. He provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing and helps us express honestly from the heart what are people doing that is or is not in harmony with our needs. NVC is the missing element in what we do.”
- Deepak Chopra, author, How to Know God and Ageless Body and Timeless Mind
“Rosenberg brings us globally critical evidence that how/what we speak reflects who we are and embodies what we will become.”
- Dr. Barbara E. Fields, executive director, The Association for Global New Thought
“Rosenberg describes how, in numerous conflicts, once ‘enemies’ have been able to hear each other’s needs, they are able to connect compassionately and find new solutions to previously ‘impossible’ impasses. If you want to learn ways of more skillful speech I highly recommend this clear, easy-to-read book.”
- Diana Lion, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Turning Wheel Magazine
“In my estimation, NVC is as radical and change-making as the Eight-Fold Path. I predict that active use of NVC in our sanghas would significantly cut through frustrations and growing pains.”
- Joan Starr Ward, member, Spirit Rock Center, CA and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
“Nonviolent Communication and trainings in the NVC process are an invaluable, skillful means for enriching communication with oneself and with others in a manner that eases the suffering in human relationships.”
- Nicolee Jikyo Miller-McMahan, Three Treasures Zen Community
“Buddhism and NVC are rooms in the same house. By examining the tools of the mind, language and symbol, the true nature of the mind becomes clearer. I strongly recommend NVC as a highly effective practice for developing clarity and genuine compassion.”
- Lewis Rhames, Vipassana Insight Meditation, Minimal Security Unit, Monroe Correctional Complex
“Nonviolent Communication is an extremely useful tool for improving communication and cultivating compassion. NVC — expressed in simple, articulate, useful steps — has the capacity to be as liberating as anything which Buddhism has to offer.”
- Ed Brown, teacher, Zen Center, San Francisco CA / Tassajara, Green Gulch CA
“Marshall has gathered and presented in a clear and convincing way the essential nuts and bolts of speaking skillfully. With generous examples of what doesn't work and useful, practical exercises of what does work towards clear communication, he makes a strong case for changing the quality of our relationships. Nonviolent Communication is a valuable resource for everyone.”
- Steve Armstrong, teacher, Vipassana Metta, Maui HI; Insight Meditation Society, Barre MA
“Animating compassion into living moment-to-moment experience seems a formidable task for novices on the Dharma path. For convicts immersed in an environment which intensifies and reinforces conflict, discovering a step-by-step methodology advocating compassion through communication is enormously liberating.”
- Dow Gordon, Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, Minimum Security Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, WA
“Nonviolent Communication has so much to teach even advanced meditators. Learning NVC has helped me to apply all that I've been cultivating on the cushion—compassion, acceptance, understanding—off the cushion, in the world.”
- Christine Aquilino, member, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge MA
“NVC provides the skills to connect on a heart level with every individual while practicing mindfulness and the Eightfold Path. Both the books and the NVC workshops will cultivate a heart of compassion.”
- Rusty Thomas, Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, Minimal Security Unit, Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, WA
“When I discovered the NVC process, I immediately saw how congruent it was with my Buddhist practice. NVC really allows me to manifest my compassionate nature in my daily life.”
- Pascale Molho, Kanzeon Sangha; Paris, France
“Using NVC was vital to healing my relationship with my sister; and for me, it serves as a guide for applying Buddhist practice to communication.”
- Jane Lazar, Zen Student in Residence / NVC Trainer
“Years of meditation and spiritual study left me with discouragement at my inability to implement the resulting high ideals. The Nonviolent Communication process turned out to be the liberating key that is showing me how to put spiritual teachings into concrete practice in my daily life.”
- Lin Rose, Bellevue WA
“I have found the NVC practice to be a powerful complement to the Buddhist teachings on right speech. While the Dharma helps me know which forms of speech to avoid, NVC shows me how to use language in ways that build more compassionate connections with others.”
- Tom Pedulla, member, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Cambridge MA
“Nonviolent Communication, for me, is the 'how to' of Right Speech, communicating in ways that elicit compassion, understanding, connection and clarity. My relationships are now nourishing and clear, my actions are more deliberate and conscious, and my service to the world is coming from a more peaceful and positive place within.”
- Tricia King, Bellingham WA
“The consciousness of Nonviolent Communication and Buddhism feed each other, deepen each other and support each other in a beautiful, mutual dance of deepening love.”
- Mark J. Goodman, Vipassana Meditation and a heart connection connection to Thich Nhat Hanh and his lineage, Seattle WA
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