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

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.