Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.

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.

This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.