 Examining our addictions can help us to get more in touch with our needs - that which connects us with life. Feelings and needs are at the heart of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Needs are what connect us with life - with our life-force energy.
Go here for this post by NVC Certified Trainer Ceri Buckmaster: Compassion for Your Addictions Holds the Key to Lasting Change. Plus go here for more information and to post your comments. Go here for more from the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019 and please scroll down this page. Please share this with your networks. Thanks.
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 Today, I am privileged to share this beautiful and powerful poem by Carla Cherry. Go here to read it.
Go here for more blogs from The Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019, and please scroll down this page. Thanks.  I relate strongly to what Arlene R. Major, a/k/a Lady Blu, is saying here. Many abuse survivors will relate as well. And many of us have travelled the road from victim to survivor. Go here to read it.
You can help us make a difference. Please share this with your networks and please leave your comments on my blog post. Thanks. Go here for more 2019 blogs and please scroll down the page.  Extinction Rebellion have been all over the news and my colleague, Ceri Buckmaster, has been working away with them quietly behind the scenes.
Extinction Rebellion were unique in that they approached NVC with a request for training and support in nonviolence and de-escalation. Go here for this post and go here for more information and to leave your comments. You can help make a difference - please comment on my blog and please share this with your networks. Thanks. Go here for more 2019 blogs and please scroll down the page.  I am so sad to be starting off the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence 2019 with this terrible, tragic story. But this is the reality. These are the times in which we live. Another Black person shot by the police, apparently for no reason. Once again, I ask, do Black lives really matter?
I am so upset and outraged about this. Fortunately, there is something we can do. We need solutions that work. Go here for this story. Please comment and share this link. Thanks for your help. And scroll down this page for more blog posts. I have already talked a little about my personal journey in A Little about NVC and Me and Why I Am Committed to Nonviolence.
I started to explore Nonviolent Communication (NVC) around 2003, and it had a profound effect on me. Go here to read more.  I am passionate about Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
NVC changed my life and changed me as a person. It is changing lives all over the world. Go here to read more. Please share this with your networks and please leave your comment on my blog post. Thanks.  Empathy means to stand in another person's shoes, i.e. to see things from their perspective.
EMPATHY is at the heart of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In an NVC context, empathy means to connect with feelings and needs - our own and other people's. Go here to read more. Please share this with your networks. Thanks.  This is one of those terrible, tragic stories that could have been prevented.
McKenzie Adams, a 4th grader at U.S. Jones Elementary School in Alabama, died last week after she hung herself in their home. Her family blames racist bullying that apparently occurred at her school. Constant, unrelenting bullying - this may be what drove this little girl to take her own life. Go here to read more. This is just one more reason why we need nonviolence and NVC (Nonviolent Communication). NVC is about EMPATHY. See also: Mom Banned from School after She Confronts Daughter's Bullies. |
AuthorZhana, author of Success Strategies for Black People and Affirmations for Parents. hosts the annual Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence in conjunction with the Month of Nonviolence. Archives
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