However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.