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.

We need empathy to give empathy.

As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.