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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Thursdays with TJ
On Thursday mornings, TJ and I explore NonViolent Communication together. I took Marshall Rosenberg's workshop a few years ago, but I have not come close to mastering NVC. In fact, it is a rare and exceptional moment when I remember and am able to sink down into those useful skills that Marshall can so easily demonstrate.
Having TJ for a practice partner has helped me to realize that NVC is more than the skill of communicating in a prescribed way. NVC is helping me to understand myself and others better.
The vision of the Center for NonViolent Communication:
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.
At the end of the hour that TJ and I spend exploring NVC, I feel encouraged, alive, and grateful because I know that I am learning skills that will help bring peace to my life and, hopefully, to others in my world.
“Dialogue is a conversation between adults the outcome of which is unknown.” Martin Buber
Having TJ for a practice partner has helped me to realize that NVC is more than the skill of communicating in a prescribed way. NVC is helping me to understand myself and others better.
The vision of the Center for NonViolent Communication:
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.
At the end of the hour that TJ and I spend exploring NVC, I feel encouraged, alive, and grateful because I know that I am learning skills that will help bring peace to my life and, hopefully, to others in my world.
“Dialogue is a conversation between adults the outcome of which is unknown.” Martin Buber
posted by Carol at 4:19 PM
2 Comments:
The NVC walks I take with Carol help me fulfill a need I have for integrity. It brings a greater authenticity to my peace work. This brings joy and renewed passion to my walk with nonviolence.
How can I truly contribute to peace if I am speaking a language that does violence? Nonviolent communication goes beyond the words I choose to say. It touches at the very need for such words, and helps me connect with the root feelings that are connected to this need.
I have a spiritual need for unity, harmony, and nonviolent order. When this need is met, even for a moment, I feel freedom, hope, and inspiration…
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Prayer of St. Francis
I am so happy we have created our NVC walks where I am supported and accepted (and given the opportunity to offer the same) as I try on some new skills and come to a new awareness of myself.
Thank you, TJ!
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