Living Nonviolent Communication [Kindle Edition]

Marshall Rosenberg (Author)

Book Description

You’re about to have an uncomfortable meeting with your boss. The principal just called about your middle-schooler. You had a fight with your partner and it’s an hour before bed. You know your next move will go a long way toward defining your relationships with these individuals. So what do you do?

We all find ourselves in situations similar to these, and too often resort to the same old patterns of behavior—defending our need to be right, refusing to really listen, speaking cruelly out of anger and frustration, or worse. But there is another way. Living Nonviolent Communication gives you practical training in applying Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s renowned process in the areas he has most often been asked for counsel:

• Conflict resolution
• Working with anger
• Spiritual practice
• Healing and reconciliation
• Loving relationships
• Raising children

Nonviolent Communication has flourished for four decades across 35 countries for a simple reason: it works. Now you can learn to activate its healing and transformational potential, with Living Nonviolent Communication.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Nonviolent Communication can change the world.  More importantly, it can change your life.  I cannot recommend it highly enough."
-Jack Canfield
Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series

"A Best Spiritual Book of the Year"

Spirituality & Practice

Marshall Rosenberg is a clinical psychologist and the founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communications (CNVC), an international nonprofit organization that offers workshops and training in 35 countries. He has initiated peace programs in war-torn areas including Rwanda, Nigeria, Malaysia, the Middle East, Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland.

It is so helpful and hopeful to have a peace activist and a resourceful organization out in the conflicted and adversarial world teaching nonviolent communication. Just listen for a while to talk radio hosts spewing hatred and advocating violence on a daily basis. Then tune in any of the television talk shows and listen to the uncivil discourse of shouting instead of dignified dialogue. Then consider that little training is given to children in resolving conflict through listening, compassion, empathy, or forgiveness; Rosenberg covers them all in this fine book.

He also touches upon the spiritual basis of nonviolent communications, writing about giving of ourselves, manifesting love, emphasizing connections with others, making the most of your Divinely given energy, practicing empathy, and expressing gratitude. These are sorely needed in a world where class warfare, political rivalries, and global conflicts have brought more violence.

Bless Rosenberg for his peace programs. Read about his approach in this paperback and then reflect upon the fact that neither of the candidates for U.S. President will put forward a peace strategy for the years to come.

-by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice, July 2012

About the Author

Marshall Rosenberg has initiated peace programs in war torn areas including Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland. A clinical psychologist, he is the founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), an international nonprofit organization that offers workshops and training in 30 countries. Dr. Rosenberg is the author of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. For more information on Dr. Rosenberg, please visit his website at: www.cnvc.org.

Product Details

• File Size: 395 KB
• Print Length: 185 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1604077875
• Publisher: NE Press; 1 edition (May 15, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00805DNUQ
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not New Material but Grab it if you don't have the small books! October 5, 2012

By Antony Sammeroff

Format:Paperback

This book does not contain any new material from Marshall Rosenberg,

Rather it is a compilation of the 6 short books:
We can work it out
Being me, loving you
Getting past the pain between us
The Surprising Purpose of Anger
Raising Children Compassionately
Practical Spirituality

If you have some or most of these books (I had 4) this probably isn't a grab unless you have people you want to pass them onto.

I would also prefer it hadn't excluded one of these short books entitled:
" The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World. "
and merged into the child rearing section "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding (Nonviolent Communication Guides)"
as I do not own those two, they seemed an unnecessary ommission for this compilation

If you don't have many or any of the books in this compilation then this is a great grab to suppliment Nonviolent Communication as it is full of transcriptions of role-plays where you can see the method at work. Of course the best way to learn NVC is to practice it yourself but these conversations can help you learn how.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A New Way of Living June 26, 2012

By Lamisha Serf New Consciousness Review

Format:Paperback

Living Nonviolent Communication is more than a guide to good communication. It is a guide to a new way of living that can heal and transform relationships of all types. Author and clinical psychologist, Marshall Rosenberg, has created a process of communication that brings practitioners out of the reactions of their past and into the present moment so they may respond to the current situation in a peaceful way. Nonviolent communication is a method that suggests deciphering the needs behind any reaction or emotion and responding empathically, so ideally all parties involved in any type of dispute may find peace. This book not only outlines the process of nonviolent communication, but also provides readers with role playing examples in areas such as healing and reconciliation, loving relationships, and working with anger, so they may further understand how it can be used in a real conversation.

While reading this book I had several "aha" moments where everything seemed to click and I could see how I can apply this in my everyday life. I did struggle with the some of the language in the role-playing as it felt somewhat scripted and unnatural, but I can certainly see the benefits of practicing this type of communication. In a world where war is considered a solution to conflict and violence seems to be a way of life for some, nonviolent communication is greatly needed. I invite readers to explore an alternative to our traditional conflict resolution methods in Living Nonviolent Communication

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not original, but still worth buying. August 1, 2012

By mac maven

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Excellent stories, though they seem to be copied from the earlier published NVC booklets. Though if someone hadn't already purchased the booklets, this is likely a better value.

More About the Author

Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. has initiated peace programs in war-torn areas throughout the world including Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland. He is the founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), an international nonprofit organization that offers workshops and training in 30 countries. Dr. Rosenberg is the author of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (2nd edition, PuddleDancer Press, 2003).