Name: Nonviolent Communication
Rating: 4.356060606060606 (66 reviews)

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Clinical psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg offers an enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances.

A Language of Life

Nonviolent Communication

Non Violent Communication A Language of Life

Lots of good concepts, certainly worth a read. 

Ryan Moore

Heiki Riesenkampf

The book contained one great mental model of thinking about sharing criticism in a constructive manner. While the message was strong and would make anyone better at giving feedback, the book could have been 5x shorter.

What is Violent Communication? If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's "good/bad" or what's "right/wrong" with people—could indeed be called "violent communication." What is Nonviolent Communication? Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things: • Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of compassion, collaboration, courage, and authenticity • Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance • Communication: knowing how to ask for what we want, how to hear others even in disagreement, and how to move toward solutions that work for all • Means of influence: sharing "power with others" rather than using "power over others" Nonviolent Communication serves our desire to do three things: • Increase our ability to live with choice, meaning, and connection • Connect empathically with self and others to have more satisfying relationships • Sharing of resources so everyone is able to benefit

Bouke van der Bijl

Really pragmatic book on how to communicate your wants and needs effectively, and how to really, actively, listen to other people. Lots of clear and relatable examples of people whose lives and relationships were improved tremendously by really communicating, instead of judging the other person with the words they’re using.

Jimmy Cerone

I used to think I was a great communicator and this book gently showed me my flaws. I’ve so much hope after reading this book that I can heal and grow all my relationships, both cherished and troubled.

I will relisten or reread this. This has a lot of insights. Some of them could be a lil bit deeper tho. 

Patrick Ludewig

The latest edition of the communication guide that has sold more than 1,000,000 copies An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this international bestseller uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace. Guidance is provided on identifying and articulating feelings and needs, expressing anger fully, and exploring the power of empathy in order to speak honestly without creating hostility, break patterns of thinking that lead to anger and depression, and communicate compassionately. Included in the new edition is a chapter on conflict resolution and mediation.

Non Violent Communication

Colin Das

Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication models communication into observations, feelings, needs, and requests. What did you see, how did it make you feel, what do you want to happen, then generate a request. 

First of all, we should all learn this stuff in 1st grade: "how to interact with another human"

It's actually difficult: 3) Observing without evaluating is hard, eg, Evaluation: Immigrants don’t take care of their property. eg, Observation: I have not seen the immigrant family living at 1679 Ross shovel the snow on their sidewalk.

You will find new enjoyment in communication and people will appreciate you more. It's a win-win. 

Overall, strong recommendation.

Tinnei

Note: it's a self help book so rating is contextual on stage in life.

The book brought in some great ideas on ways to communicate, and provides frameworks to how to think for the best outcome in real-time conflicts. Also Rosenburg put in a good amount of anecdotes which I thoroughly enjoy as I always love to hear stories.

Good read if you want to improve your relationships with others - friends, family, lovers and cultivate long term connections. 

A simple yet powerful method of communication for mediating conflicts and peacefully resolving differences at the political, professional, and personal levels.

A Language of Compassion

Andrew Molina

A powerful and equally practical way to learn how to truly hear people, and through that understand them and yourself more fully.

João Ferreira

The overall message is great, but I'm very skeptical about the practicality of some of these examples. I suspect several of the proposed sample dialogues would sound very forced to me.

Hugo Ahlberg

Terrible title, great book. I wish I had read this many years ago. I wish more/all people would read this. So many arguments and fights could be avoided, both at work and in relationships with loved ones. Having said that, there are def parts of this book where I scrunched my face in disbelief, but overall a great book which I highly would recommend pretty much to everyone. (thanks for the recommendation Marco!)

Siewling Seet

An essential read for every single person, in my opinion. Don’t let the atrocity that is the cover put you off, I know it’s very “O Level biology assessment book”.

Nonviolent Communication A Language of Life

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