What is Nonviolent Communication?
Founded by international peacemaker, mediator and author Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) provides a roadmap for thinking, speaking and hearing words in a way that leads us home to our humanity. It anchors us in internal freedom, allowing us to speak and act from our core values rather than reacting to external stimuli. The founding of Freedom Project was inspired by the response of prisoners to Marshall’s offering and modeling of NVC. (NVC trainings are available worldwide. See the International Center for Nonviolent Communication website at www.cnvc.org.) The purpose of NVC is to strengthen our ability to inspire compassion in others and respond compassionately to others and to ourselves. NVC helps us reframe how we express ourselves and hear others by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing and requesting. We learn to make careful observations free of evaluation, and to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting us. We lear
