Marshall B. Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall Rosenbergs dynamic communication techniques transform potential conflicts into peaceful dialogues. Youll learn simple tools to defuse arguments and create compassionate connections with your family, friends, and other acquaintances.

JOHN GRAY, author, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Nonviolent Communication can change the world. More importantly, it can change your life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

JACK CANFIELD, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series

Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.

DEEPAK CHOPRA, author, How to Know God and Ageless Body and Timeless Mind

Nonviolent Communication is one of the most useful processes you will ever learn.

WILLIAM URY, coauthor, Getting to Yes

In this book, you will find an amazingly effective language for saying whats on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, its simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.

VICKI ROBIN, coauthor, Your Money or Your Life

As far as nonviolence and spiritual activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Applying the concepts within these books will guide the reader towards a fostering more compassion in the world.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, author, Everyday Grace and honorary chairperson, Peace Alliance

Like Noam Chomsky, Rosenbergs work is intrinsically radical, it subverts our whole status-quo system of power: between children and adults, the sane and the psychotic, the criminal and the law. Rosenbergs distinction between punitive and protective force should be required reading for anyone making foreign policy or policing our streets.

D. KILLIAN, reporter, On The Front Line, Cleveland Free Times We have lived traumatic moments over and over againmoments of fear and panic, incomprehension, frustrations, disappointment, and injustice of all sorts, with no hope of escapewhich made it even worse. Nonviolent Communication offers us a peaceful alternative for ending this interminable Rwandan conflict.

THEODORE NYILIDANDI, Rwandan Department of Foreign Affairs; Kigali, Rwanda

In our present age of uncivil discourse and mean-spirited demagoguery, the principles and practices of Nonviolent Communication are as timely as they are necessary to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, personal or public, domestic or international.

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, Taylors Shelf

Rosenberg describes how, in numerous conflicts, once enemies have been able to hear each others needs, they are able to connect compassionately and find new solutions to previously impossible impasses. If you want to learn ways of more skillful speech I highly recommend this clear, easy-to-read book.

DIANA LION, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Turning Wheel Magazine

As a professional in the field, I can say that this book practices what it preaches, and I found the step-by-step approach, exercises, and examples to be clear and easy to practice.

A reader in Maryland

I have never read a clearer, more straightforward, insightful book on communication. Amazingly easy to read, great examples, and challenging to put into practicethis book is a true gift to all of us.

A reader in Washington

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to peopleeven if you (or they) are angry.

JOE VITALE, author, Spiritual Marketing, The Power of Outrageous Marketing

Changing the way the world has worked for 5,000 years sounds daunting, but Nonviolent Communication helps liberate us from ancient patterns of violence.

FRANCIS LEFKOWITZ, reporter, Body & Soul

A revolutionary way of looking at language. If enough people actually make use of the material in Nonviolent Communication we may soon live in a more peaceful and compassionate world.

WES TAYLOR, Progressive Health

The single toughest, most dangerous opponent Id ever facedthe one that truly hurt me the most, causing me to spend 30 years of my life behind barswas my own anger and fear. I write these words now, a gray-haired old man, hoping to Godbefore you suffer what Ive sufferedthat it will cause you to listen and learn Nonviolent Communication. It will teach you how to recognize anger before it becomes violence, and how to understand, deal with, and take control of the rage you may feel.

A prisoner writing to fellow inmates

With the growth in todays dysfunctional families and the increase of violence in our schools, Nonviolent Communication is a godsend.

LINDA C. STOEHR, Los Colinas Business News

In addition to saving our marriage, Nonviolent Communication is helping us repair our relationships with our grown children and to relate more deeply with our parents and siblings. If angels do manifest in physical form here on this earth, then Marshall Rosenberg must be one.

A reader in Arizona

My relationship with my husband, which was good already, has become even better. Ive taught NVC to many parents who have since gained a deeper understanding of their children, thus enhancing their relationship and decreasing tension and conflict.