NVC Parenting: article in The Times!

Hi Everybody,
I’m delighted to say that the article on NVC parenting I helped a journalist from The Times write last year has just appeared in print under the title: ‘All we are saying is: give peace a chance’. The online version features my friend and colleague Sarah Ludford, and Helen Bone, who has been attending [...]

Happy New Year from Sri Lanka!

Here are four short clips from a TV interview I did when I was here in Sri Lanka before. I had a lot of fun doing the puppet show in clip #2!

Sri Lanka International Training plus 2010 dates

We are offering a 10 day International training in Nonviolent Communication from Feb 1-10th, to be held in Sri Lanka…

NVC UK Summer Camp report

Unfurling the Giraffe on the Rainbow Mill
Hi All,
A month has passed since the first NVC Camp in the UK at the Rainbow Mill in North Norfolk, UK. I wanted to write a report about it to celebrate what we created and to inspire others to do the same. There were about sixty-five people, including about [...]

Giraffe and Jackal ears exercise

Participants at Stourbridge NVC training demonstrating Giraffe and Jackal ears. Left-Right: Jackal Out, Jackal In, Giraffe In, Giraffe Out
A month ago I did an exercise with a group of participants on a training in Stourbridge, UK, famous for its Rudolph Steiner connection and the Camphill Trust. The purpose of the exercise was to get clear [...]

We’ve all hurt someone: NVC in prison

This time I felt excited and curious about visiting the men of the ‘Khanti Outreach’ Buddhist meditation and study group at Concord state prison. Though I hadn’t been for nearly a year, I’d often thought about the men and how they were getting on with their lives, so it wasn’t a shock to see the walls and razor wire of the prison…

Obama on Empathy

Barack Obama
Hi there,
A few days ago I read something inspiring on empathy on the CNVC trainers’ email list. It was a passage from Barack Obama’s ‘The Audacity of Hope’ on the importance and nature of empathy. Gratitude to Alex Censor for posting it there.
There was also a link to a compilation of text and video [...]

Deepening Empathy in Indy

Lending giraffe ears to each other
Last weekend I enjoyed the company of the folks from Irvington Friends Meeting in Indianapolis, plus guests, for a Deepening + Empathy training. We reviewed the basics of NVC and explored various aspects of empathy. Things that particularly came up were:

For some people, it was a revelation that you could [...]