Nonviolent Communication is a way of speaking that helps stop violence!

Nonviolent communication is a simple process that facilitates the flow of communication necessary to exchange information and resolve differences compassionately. It is based on identifying universally shared standards and needs. NVC can be practically applied in educational institutions, business and industry, social service agencies and politically charged situations, as well as in families and personal relationships.

Nonviolent Communication encourages people to use language that increases goodwill. It teaches people how to avoid language that created resentment or lowers self-esteem. It emphasizes compassion as the motivation for actions, rather than fear, guilt, blame, or shame., It also emphasizes personal responsibility for our choices. Nonviolent Communication can be used effectively even without the other person’s or group’s knowledge of the process.

Nonviolent Communication is based on the premise that:

1. We are all trying to get our needs met
2. We fare better if we know how to get these needs met in a cooperative rather than aggressive way.
3. Empathy helps us get in touch with the remarkable inner resources each of us has.

The intention of this model/process is to:

1. Achieve and maintain satisfying connections
2. Meet our needs in a way that honors and respects ourselves and others.
3. Remedy the effects of communication that has been painful or unsuccessful.

You will learn how to:

1. Resolve feelings of anger, guilt, shame, fear and frustration.
2. Redirect anger energy toward coalition building, cooperative outcomes.
3. Create solutions based on safety, respect, and consensus
4. Meet basic individual, family, school, community and societal needs.

Benefits from using NVC:

1. Self empowerment
2. Conflict Resolution
3. Bridging Cultural Differences
4. Harmonious Relationships
5. Team Building
6. Cooperative Learning
7. Objective Evaluations

The Center for Nonviolent Communication Arizona (CNCAZ) is interested in what we can do to get people back to their nature, their humanness, their divinity.   We want to stay focused, even in the face of conflict. The heart of NVC is to identify human needs, in others, and ourselves and what can be done to meet those needs. NVC training helps us see the humanness in one another without thoughts or language that implies criticism, right or wrong, judgement, analysis or diagnosis. We show people how to make value judgements and to assert them, without making moralistic judgements. It is not a passive amoral way but a way of evaluating form the heart. The closer we get to this compassionate worldview, the more miracles happen around us. The closer we focus our attention on what will make life more wonderful, the more we experience our divine nature of compassion and loving action in our world.

Nonviolent (Compassionate) Communication Introductory Presentation & Workshops

Marshall Rosenberg, the founder and training director of the nonprofit Center for Nonviolent Communication, or another facilitator will give a description of the basic concepts and actions of this process. The balance of the time is spent working with the participants on how they can actually use this process in their immediate life situations. Whether it deals with your relationship to yourself, family and friend, the workplace or school, or politically the facilitator will help you re-focus your attention. Discover how to accurately identify human needs and what can be done right now to contribute to those needs, if you so choose.