Organizations

Books

Puddle Dancer Press – a good source of NVC books and materials

Nonviolent Communication, by Marshal Rosenberg – text used as background for discussion. A copy is available in the Nederland Community Library. From Puddle Dancer Press, from Amazon,

Nonviolent Communication, Companion Workbook: A Practical Guide for … Study

Connecting Across Differences, by Connor and Killian – this text also provides excellent practical exercises

Resources and Worksheets

Overviews

• Kathy Masarie’s Introduction to Compassionate Communication ** (from WA School Counselor website)
• Greg Kendrick’s Introduction to NVC (from SchoolTransformation.org)
• NVC Overview from Ayahuasca-wasi
• Expressing Empathy (from SchoolTransformation.org)
• Bret Stein’s ‘Basics of Nonviolent Communication’ (from Bret Stein, with permission)
• Assumptions of NVC (from Bret Stein, with permission)
• Key Facts about Nonviolent Communication (from Puddle Dancer Press)
• Quick Facts about Nonviolent Communication (from Puddle Dancer Press)
• Nonviolent Communication, by Wayland Myers

NVC Process

• The Four-Part NVC Process (from Puddle Dancer Press)
• NVC Process Outline (from Charles Wood; by permission)
• Misery Cafe (image) / transforming misery (image) (from NVC Workshop at Sosiaalikekus)
• How to Practice Nonviolent Communication – Wiki

Life-Affirming and Life-Negating Communication

• Communication Wheel (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Language that Connects (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Giraffe vs. Jackal Systems of Thinking, ** page 3 of Greg Kendrick’s Introduction
• How we hear difficult messages, page 4 of Greg Kendrick’s Introduction
• Pick your path – the middle way (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Tunnel Vision (from Brett Stein, with permission)

Evaluating versus Observing

• Reframing Causal Attributions, page 4 of Expressing Empathy
• Turning Evaluations into Observations (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Translating Alienating Thoughts (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Thought Wheel (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Mixing observations and evaluations (Word) (source unknown)
• Overview of observations vs evaluations (page 15ff; from Ayahuasca-wasi)

Feelings and Needs

• Feelings Wheels / Not Feelings: Version 1 / Version 2 *** very useful (PDF download, from Brett Stein, with permission)
• Needs Wheels / Not Needs: Version 1 / Version 2 *** very useful (PDF download, from Brett Stein, with permission)
  • How the Feelings and Needs Wheels were Created (from Brett Stein, with permission)
• List of NON-feeling Words and Thoughts (from PuddleDancer Press
• Feelings and Needs List **useful (from Wiseheart)
• Basic Feelings and Needs we All Have (from Puddle Dancer Press)
• Feelings Inventory / Needs Inventory (from Center for Nonviolent Communication)
• Universal needs wheel, p. 3 of Expressing Empathy

Feelings vs. Interpretations

• Distinguishing feelings from interpretations (from Wiseheart)
• Overview of non-feeling vs feeling words (page 18ff; from Ayahuasca-wasi)
• Evaluations Masquerading as Feelings, p. 15, Camp Augusta Staff Manual

Empathy

• Essentials of empathy (from Wiseheart)
• Empathetic Listening (from empathymagic.com)

Other resources

• NVC Apps for Smartphones
• NVC Academy of Online training materials
• Key assumptions of NVC, (more resources) from Bay Area NVC
• NVC-UK Resources Page – free downloads available

Reference Articles

• Basic pitfalls of using NVC – about bringing NVC into one’s life