Practice · Communication
Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a communication practice developed by Marshall Rosenberg built on four steps: observation, feeling, need and request, used to resolve conflict and create understanding.
How it works
Describe what happened without evaluation, name the feeling it brings up, identify the need underneath the feeling, and make a clear, doable request. The same four steps are used for listening: hearing the feelings and needs behind what someone else says.
Separating observation from interpretation is the heart of it: most conflict lives in the meaning we add to what happened.
Who it's for
Leaders, teams and couples who want hard conversations to go better, and anyone building psychological safety. It is widely used in workplaces, schools, mediation and peacebuilding.
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On the map
Nonviolent Communication belongs to the Communication dimension of the Holotropic Map of Human Experience.
Related practices: Kulning, Human Design
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