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Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent communication is a structured way of expressing yourself and hearing others built around four components: observations, feelings, needs, and requests. You will learn to state what you observed without evaluation, name the feeling it produced, connect it to an underlying need, and make a concrete request. You will practice this structure as an alternative to blame-based statements in tense exchanges.

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Marshall Rosenberg Demonstrating NVC's Observation-Feeling-Need-Request Structure

Archival workshop footage of NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg demonstrating how to resolve a live conflict using the observation, feeling, need, request structure instead of blame language.