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Book SynopsisDo you want to express yourself honestly and compassionately? Learn to live in choice rather than submit or rebel? This book explores 25 key distinctions that reveal the consciousness embedded in Nonviolent Communication. Drawing on brain science with awareness of systemic conditioning, each chapter presents examples from around the world alongside practices that will move you toward the spirit of true connection.
Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionPart 1. Fundamentals1. Life-Connected and Life-Disconnected Mindsets2. Moralistic Judgments and Value Judgments3. Interdependence and Dependence or Independence4. Power-With and Power-Over5. Choice and Submission or RebellionPart 2. Components6. Observation and Observation Mixed With Evaluation7. Feelings and Feelings Mixed With Thoughts8. Needs and Strategies9. Requests and Demands10. Idiomatic Language and Classical (Formal) LanguagePart 3. Options for Connection11. Being Giraffe and Doing Giraffe12. Empathy and Sympathy or Other Responses 13. Empathic Sensing and Intellectual Guessing14. Self-Empathy and Acting Out, Repressing, or Wallowing15. Jackal Honesty and Giraffe HonestyPart 4. Options for Power16. Punitive Use of Force and Protective Use of Force17. Respect for Authority and Fear of Authority18. Self-Discipline and ObediencePart 5. Further Applications19. Natural and Habitual Ways of Being20. Vulnerability and Weakness21. Stimulus and Cause22. Persisting and Demanding23. Shift and Compromise24. Appreciation and Approval, Compliments, or Praise25. Love as a Feeling and Love as a NeedConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendicesNotesIndexThe Four-Part Nonviolent Communication ProcessSome Basic Feelings We All HaveNonviolent Communication Research and About Nonviolent CommunicationAbout PuddleDancer PressAbout the Center for Nonviolent CommunicationPuddleDancer Press Book and BookletsAbout the Author
