Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.

In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, NVC offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life – one interaction at a time.

Over 150,000 copies sold and now available in 20 languages around the world. More than 250,000 people each year from all walks of life are learning these life-changing skills.

i HAVE GIVEN THIS BOOK TO ALL MY FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST SOURCE OF CREATING PEACE IN STRESSFUL SITUATIONS. WE CAN ALWAYS LEARN BETTER WAYS OF GETTING ALONG.

This book is an excellent educational tool to help all people learn to really listen to others so they feel acknowledged and so they themselves can in turn respond with confidence and respect.
A process to foster communication and so help to build healthy, repspectful, satisying relationships. Skills that are useful and needed by everyone. A must read.

In the distant past, when I was training for work as a therapist, Carl Rogers was one of my gurus. Rogers' concept of absolute respect for the client helped me assist persons and couples in reaching their potential. I am delighted to find Marshall Rosenberg's book--a book that lifts Rogers' concepts out of the therapeutic setting and establishes it in the world of common communication. His writing is clear, and his examples are helpful. I recently used this book in a class that was examining ways of establishing islands of non-violence in a violence-saturated society.

I have one complaint. Rosenberg implies that a careful use of nonviolent communication could rid our relationships of anger. Anger can, indeed, be destructive. Anger needs to be channeled, not eliminated, and nonviolent communication can assist in achieving this goal. But eliminating it altogether? Is there a spouse in this universe who wants to be married to someone who never becomes angry?

So I encourage people to read and respond to this fine book. Know, however, that nonviolent communication, while it can deepen and enrich our relationships, will not turn those relationships into a boring flatness.

Andrew J. (Jack) Good, Roanoke, Virginia

This book is based on a foundation of hope--the assumption that people want to be life-giving in their interactions with others. When interactions are not life-giving there is something that is blocking this basic human desire. Rosenburg describes in practical ways how to communicate so as to remove barriers that arise. There are even practice lessons. I have found this book to be one I go back to time and again.

This is an down to earth, practical tool for improving your ability to communicate well with other human beings, those close to you and those in situations in which you are connected in other ways. Using ways to clearly convey needs and notice the needs of others is a desperately essential requirement in a warring world. Well worth your attention and practice.