Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values (Google eBook)

Marshall B. Rosenberg

PuddleDancer Press, Sep 1, 2003 - Self-Help - 240 pages

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.
In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, NVC offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life--one interaction at a time.
Over 150,000 copies sold and now available in 20 languages around the world. More than 250,000 people each year from all walks of life are learning these life-changing skills.

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Review: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

User Review  - Rachel Lugo - Goodreads

The theme of this book is nonviolent communication which is an emotionally supportive, reflective, curious, compassionate and collaborative way of communicating with others. I LOVE Rosenberg's method ...

Review: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

User Review  - Lucy Dixon - Goodreads

The primary text in this really interesting model for improved human communication. I'd like to read more.

Contents

• Chapter 1: 1
• Chapter 2: 15
• Chapter 3: 25
• Chapter 4: 37
• Chapter 5: 49
• Chapter 6: 67
• Chapter 7: 90
• Chapter 8: 113
• Chapter 9: 128
• Chapter 10: 141
• Chapter 11: 161
• Chapter 12: 171
• Chapter 13: 185
• Epilogue: 193
• Bibliography: 196
• Index: 201
• Back cover: 221

Popular passages

Page 3 - I'll deal with you later.' And that was presumably meant to scare me to death, but the device was too transparent. I am not easily frightened. Not because I am brave, but because I know that I am dealing with human beings and that I must try as hard as I can to understand everything that anyone ever does. And that was the real import of this morning: not that a disgruntled young Gestapo officer yelled at me, but that I felt no indignation, rather a real compassion, and would have liked to ask, 'Did...‎

About the author

Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi as well as the founder and president of Gandhi Institute for Non Violence.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values; Nonviolent Communication Guides
• Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Contributor: Arun Gandhi
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: PuddleDancer Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1892005697, 9781892005694
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / General