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Marshall Rosenberg teaching NVC in his own voice
Marshall Rosenberg explains and demonstrates nonviolent communication in broadcast interviews, a 2003 radio program and recorded workshops, one of them with German interpretation alternating line by line. His recurring point is that all human beings share the same needs and differ only in the strategies they use to meet them, and that naming those needs clearly is how conflicts get resolved.
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Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg's NVC Training brings together recordings of Marshall Rosenberg explaining, and more often demonstrating, the process he developed. No single format holds it together. Some episodes are interviews, one comes from radio, and several capture workshops where the audience talks back. In the 2015 interview he recalls his family moving to Detroit just in time for the race riots of 1943, when they could not go outdoors for four days. That experience, he says, left him asking what leads people to violence. He built his process by studying the language of people who lived the way he wanted to live. He describes using it first with families, then for roughly thirteen years in race relations work that began when a father connected to a civil rights project invited him in. The PEACE TALKS program from KUNM presents nonviolent communication as an alternative to everyday habits of speech that turn into anger and pain. It includes an acted-out exchange from his book with a client who wants to be loved but cannot say what that would look like in action. The lesson is blunt: ask for specific actions, and say what you want rather than what you want stopped. His example is a teacher who told a boy to stop tapping his book, only to have him tap the desk instead. With Paula Gloria of New Realities TV, the conversation widens. Rosenberg argues that all human beings share the same needs and differ only in strategies, and that a domination culture teaches people to see having needs as selfish or weak. He also describes a colleague who spent six months getting chiefs from both sides in Israel and Palestine into one room. The German-language session alternates English and German line by line. It covers mourning unmet needs, celebrating met ones, and forgiveness understood as empathy for the need the other person was trying to meet, with room for a joke about Middle Eastern and Swiss meeting habits. The Portland workshop recordings are the most interactive. Participants bring real problems: a relationship of ten years now in a trial separation, a practitioner who struggles to help men hear needs as a gift, and a worry that young children will treat giraffe talk as a script. Rosenberg answers with role-play and with the observation that four-year-olds learn the process faster and more deeply than adults. One story tells of a son who put on giraffe ears to empathize with a judge who could only sort him into a set of categories. For a listener who wants the method from the person who developed it, heard in real rooms with real questions, these recordings offer exactly that.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants to learn nonviolent communication from Marshall Rosenberg directly, and who learns best from worked examples, role-play and live questions about partners, children and conflict.
What sets it apart: Instead of a presenter summarizing the method, the show is built around recordings of Rosenberg himself: interviews, a KUNM radio program and workshop sessions, including one interpreted into German. The framework comes through in his own stories and live exchanges.
Nonviolent communication is a process that consists of an intention to contribute to our own well being, and the well being of others, compassionately.So that whatever we do is done willingly, not done out of guilt, or shame, or fear of punishment, or trying to buy love, by submitting to what we think others expect us to do. That we give solely out of the joy that comes naturally from contributing to life. Our own life and the lives of others.---Leave a message to be included on this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nvc-archive/messageYou could even create episode length recordings for b
Cat hair in bed becomes a test of whether your empathy is just a sneaky demand.
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A workshop-rooted lesson on unmet needs, empathy, and forgiveness that turns judgment toward what someone was trying to meet.
The episode frames forgiveness less as absolution than as a shift in attention. When someone does something painful or unwanted, the listener is asked to look past the first rush of criticism and notice the need that person may have been trying to meet.
A clear radio lesson on turning accusation into specific requests, from a messy room to a peace table.
Peace Talks frames nonviolent communication as a practical way to catch the phrases that turn irritation into accusation. Marshall Rosenberg, identified as founder and director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, moves from a living-room complaint about a messy room to…
A childhood encounter with violence becomes a radical case for needs-based communication and power with.
Dr. Marshall Rosenberg roots nonviolent communication in childhood questions sharpened by the 1943 race riots in Detroit, where he saw how skin color, and later even a name, could become a trigger for harm.
A workshop on replacing demands with empathy, tested through children, gender expectations, and a workplace hygiene dilemma.
Marshall Rosenberg's workshop makes a demanding case for communication: the aim is not getting people to comply, but building a quality of connection where everyone's needs can be met.
Campus conversations with practical reach.
Faith, pressure, and better conversations.
Speak clearly, bravely, and like yourself.
Marshall Rosenberg's NVC training on "Wolf language" and "giraffe language" focuses on how blame, self-blame, and "why" questions turn into unmet needs.
Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, joins Paul Ingalls and Suzanne Kreider in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Peace Talks on June 27, 2003.
Paula Gloria interviews Marshall Rosenberg on New Realities TV, introducing nonviolent communication as a way to expand how human beings communicate and understand each other.
Marshall Rosenberg’s Portland workshop centers on Nonviolent Communication, “consensus,” and the difference between “requests” and “wishes” in group and family settings.
Marshall Rosenberg reframes “enjoy my pain” as empathy without trying to fix another person's suffering.
Marshall Rosenberg explains the purpose of Nonviolent Communication as a way to connect compassionately and give naturally.
Marshall Rosenberg demonstrates how Nonviolent Communication can resolve long-standing conflicts by identifying each party's underlying needs.
Marshall Rosenberg discusses the difference between respect for authority and fear of authority in the context of Nonviolent Communication.
Marshall Rosenberg explains the principles of nonviolent communication and how to apply them internally, contrasting it with habitual judgmental language.