Marshall B. Rosenberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Marshall B. Rosenberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.
We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.
If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.
Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.
If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.
Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
You'll find people less threatening if you hear what they're needing rather than what they're thinking about you.