Connecting Across Differences: A Guide to Compassionate, Nonviolent Communication (Paperback)

by Jane Marantz Connor (Author), Dian Killian (Author) "Reading the above statements, how do you feel?..." (more)
Key Phrases: empathy guess, insert feeling word, observation without evaluation, Nonviolent Communication, Person Two, Person One (more...)

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Dian Killian and Mark Badger are keen observers of human nature, offering deep insight into the pitfalls and promises of human communication… --Jud Newborn, Ph.D., Founding Historian, Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and Author of Sophie Scholl and The White Rose

Dian and Mark are using comics in an innovative way to raise questions and provoke thought about how we conduct ourselves as human beings. It's a remarkable work, and I hope, just the beginning! --Jim Salicrup, Papercutz Editor-in Chief and Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Trustee

I dare you to read this without smiling… --Kit Miller, Director, Bay Area Nonviolent Communication

Product Description
ARE YOU WANTING… - In-depth understanding of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)? - To live with compassion---with the most difficult people? - NVC to appeal to college-level students---and others seeking contemporary language usage?

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Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Duck Press (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977061701
• ISBN-13: 978-0977061709
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #473,827 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Connecting Across Differences, November 2, 2005

By	Steve T. Ludington "baby giraffe" (Las Cruces, NM, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Basic concepts covered in Marshall Rosenbergs' book on Nonviolent Communication are given a much broader discussion in Connecting Across Differences. That met my need for a deeper understanding of NVC. There were also more exercises in the book for opportunities to test my understanding of the practice of communicating nonviolently.

This is not another communications-theories book. I found it to be a practical guide to improving interpersonal communications and mediating conflict in my life--at work and at home; with loved ones, colleagues, and even with strangers.

I highly recommend this book for those interested in inproving the quality of their life through greater connection and more meaningful interaction with the people in their lives.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful New Book on Compassionate Communication, December 9, 2005

By	Ava Gips (Deerfield, MA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've studied Marshall Rosenberg's book on NVC for three years, and have gotten huge benefits out of it. So why another book on NVC? This book is wonderfully complementary with Marshall's book. With clear and detailed explanations, extensive exercises, cartoons and photos, tables and charts, it helps make NVC even more alive and do-able. Part Two of the book has extensive real-life dialogs that show NVC at work. These dialogs can really ground our intellectual learnings. The annotated Resource section is very useful - new and recent ways to connect with the NVC community. Included in the book is the interview of Marshall Rosenberg which got me started studying NVC when it was originally published in The Sun magazine

This guidebook is like taking a workshop in compassionate communication. And let's face it folks, we need all the help we can get. We're trying to move out of a shame/blame culture, and into a world of compassion, empathy, and seeing each other's common, human needs.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars making it easier to share compassionate communication, December 13, 2005

By	Michael C. Dreiling (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Connecting Across Differences offers an accessible and practical orientation to the model of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Examples are abundant, references to the interplay of psychology and sociology illuminate the cultural context of communication (its problems and possibilities), and the authors' writing provides clear transitions between explanation and application.

Several students remarked how this book, and examples within it, elucidated common conflicts in their own lives. Their feedback in this way provided me with reassurance that NVC could be delivered in a way that connected to students' lifeworlds. I also appreciated how the core concepts of NVC were developed, each with examples, practice questions and the like, contributing to a consistency and clarity of communication between what the students read and what I presented in class. I liked it enough to re-order again for this winter term.