Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

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.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.