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.

A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.