Posts from ‘February, 2009’

This is my all time favorite example of Compassionate Communication so I will start with it and then share the lesson. A Mom was coming home from a 4 day “locked in” workshop with Prison Inmates. She had been the leader of the training. She was exhausted. At her home was her grown son, who [...]

In 2005 on the 2nd of February, my Father’s birth date, I discovered a crocus in bloom. February 2nd is Ground Hogs Day in the USA and many wait to see if Punxsutawney Phil, a ground hog, will see his shadow and prognosticate 6 more weeks of winter. I grabbed my camera and took a [...]

Every person on the planet has needs. I have never met anyone who wishes to be Needy. Here is the best list of needs I have ever found, it is from Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s book Nonviolent Communications: Autonomy –Choose one’s dreams/goals/values -Choose one’s plan for fulfilling one’s dreams/goals/values Celebration – Celebrate in the creations of [...]

If one wants to be a good communicator, writer, and conflict resolver or peace maker, one will need to increase their emotional IQ. To start increasing emotional IQ, one needs to increase one’s emotional vocabulary and definitions. In the Good Old USA, most individuals use the same 7 to 10 words over and over again [...]