Communication Matters: Feelings, nothing more than feelings…

Topic is role of feelings in Nonviolent Communication. In NVC, feelings can be an important part of understanding what’s happening in our own heart, expressing ourselves to others, and understanding what’s alive in someone else’s heart. This column talks about what is it exactly that we mean by “feelings” in NVC and how are they related to Needs.

Communication Matters: Needs and Strategies – what they are and how they are related to each other

Topic is worldview (or paradigm) which underlies the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process. And what we mean by needs in NVC and how are they different from the strategies we use to meet the needs.

Communication Matters: Mud slinging as a way to motivate people to give us empathy and care?

Topic is how we use ineffective and sometimes painful and destructive methods to try to get our needs met when we have neither been taught to be aware of our needs nor how to express them in a way others can enjoy hearing them and contributing to us. And how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process can help us to meet our needs more effectively and with less harm to self and others.