Materials
Contents
Training
Exercises
Observation
Feelings
Needs
Requests
Empathy
Quotes
Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time
Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone’s need to be equally valued
Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
"You don’t have to be brilliant, It’s enough to become, Progressively less stupid" - Marshall B. Rosenberg
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished." - Marshall Rosenberg
"Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences." - Marshall Rosenberg
"When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other’s behavior, we have no enemies." - Marshall Rosenberg
"It’s never what people do that make us angry, it’s what we tell ourselves about what they did." - Marshall Rosenberg
"Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service." - Lucy Leu
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens...." - Carl Jung
"Out Beyond Ideas of Right Doing and Wrong Doing, There is a Field. I'll Meet you There" - Rumi
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" - Unknown
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
"Yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you either run from it, or you learn from it." - Rafiki in The Lion King
"This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it." - Lisa Kudrow
"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." - Dalai Lama
"It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts." - Ella Fitzgerald
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde
"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
