Classifying and judging people promotes violence.
Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.
However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
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.