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NVC can dramatically improve your relationships by helping you focus your attention on:
You can learn more about CNVC …
Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. created and has developed the process of Nonviolent Communication over the past 35 years. He has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and in many countries around the world sharing the NVC process and contributing to peace-building and reconciliation efforts in war-torn areas.
Since childhood, Marshall has sought answers to two fundamental questions: If we human beings so enjoy helping and caring for one another, why do people create such violence and suffering in their interactions, even with the ones they love? And conversely, how is it that some people can stay compassionate even under horrendous, violent circumstances?
Out of the answers he found to these two questions, Marshall developed Nonviolent Communication, an alternative way of thinking, speaking, and using power that is quite different from how most people around the world have been taught to communicate and interact.
Marshall and his associates have been teaching and applying NVC nationally and globally for over thirty-five years, in locations of conflict and violence around the planet: Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Ireland, Southeast Asia, South America, as well as throughout the U.S., Canada, and western Europe. NVC has been used to heal discord, improve relationships, and enhance performance in virtually all areas of human activity, including schools, businesses, prisons, hospitals and governments, with police, gangs, military personnel, activists, parents, children and couples.
If you want, you can read more about Marshall …
We also have a page with suggestions for learning NVC without a trainer. You can find books, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs and other learning aids in our bookstore. There are articles and interviews about NVC on this website that you can read.
What Is NVC?
Nonviolent Communication (also called Compassionate Communication) can be used in any interaction. NVC provides practical skills in language, awareness, and using power to communicate in ways that inspire compassionate giving and receiving toward meeting the needs of all concerned. These skills provide clarity, understanding, and connection leading to mutual respect and cooperation. Whether you're caught up in long-term hostility or a new dispute, this process can help create resolutions that are satisfying for everyone involved without painful compromise or sacrifice. NVC gives concrete tools for replacing old patterns of defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack with an experience of greater harmony and power with people. Nonviolent Communication gives everyday solutions to your most perplexing communication problems.NVC can dramatically improve your relationships by helping you focus your attention on:
- Empathic understanding of others without compromising your own values, and
- Expressing your real feelings and needs openly and honestly, yet without blame or criticism.
- Build relationships based on compassion and understanding
- Accurately understand other people's feelings and needs
- Be assertive and flexible at the same time
- Break patterns of thinking that lead to anger and depression
What is CNVC?
The Center for Nonviolent Communication is a global organization that supports the learning and sharing of NVC, and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings. CNVC is a steward of the integrity of the NVC process and a nexus point of NVC-related information and resources, including training, conflict resolution, and organizational consulting services. CNVC’s mission is to contribute to more sustainable, compassionate, and “life-serving” human relations in the realms of both personal relationship and social systems and structures, such as business/economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping. NVC work is being done in over 65 countries and growing, touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world.You can learn more about CNVC …
Who Is Marshall B. Rosenberg?
"Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs."- Marshall RosenbergMarshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. created and has developed the process of Nonviolent Communication over the past 35 years. He has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and in many countries around the world sharing the NVC process and contributing to peace-building and reconciliation efforts in war-torn areas.
Since childhood, Marshall has sought answers to two fundamental questions: If we human beings so enjoy helping and caring for one another, why do people create such violence and suffering in their interactions, even with the ones they love? And conversely, how is it that some people can stay compassionate even under horrendous, violent circumstances?
Out of the answers he found to these two questions, Marshall developed Nonviolent Communication, an alternative way of thinking, speaking, and using power that is quite different from how most people around the world have been taught to communicate and interact.
Marshall and his associates have been teaching and applying NVC nationally and globally for over thirty-five years, in locations of conflict and violence around the planet: Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Ireland, Southeast Asia, South America, as well as throughout the U.S., Canada, and western Europe. NVC has been used to heal discord, improve relationships, and enhance performance in virtually all areas of human activity, including schools, businesses, prisons, hospitals and governments, with police, gangs, military personnel, activists, parents, children and couples.
If you want, you can read more about Marshall …
How to Find a Trainer/ Local Supporter
We list contact information for CNVC-certified trainers and local NVC supporters from around the world. They are organized by country within continent. To find a trainer, you begin by selecting the continent and then the country. Within the USA, you then select a state. If your country or state is not in the list, it means that we do not have any CNVC-certified trainers or local NVC supporters there, yet.How to Find a Training
We have up-coming NVC trainings around the world posted on this website. When you go to the select a training page, there are several choices you can make using drop-down lists. We recommend that you choose a country and then search for trainings without making any other selections the first time. Please note that there is a "country" called "Teleconference Training" that you can select to find a training you can take from any location.We also have a page with suggestions for learning NVC without a trainer. You can find books, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs and other learning aids in our bookstore. There are articles and interviews about NVC on this website that you can read.