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.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.

I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.