NVC Resources

Marshall Rosenberg’s original landmark work. The foundation of the movement.

Aptly titled: Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. This book helps you communicate your feelings peacefully in order not to repress them.

Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences

Marshall Rosenberg’s guide to Relationships.

Another book by Marshall Rosenberg, Living NVC give pragmatic tips for communication.

A short book by Rosenberg on being a voice of peace in a world of conflict.

This is Rosenberg’s book on parenting with NVC.

Rosenberg’s short book focused on NVC and conflict, highlighting the dangers of ‘compromise.’

This book by Oren Jay Sofer is one of the best-selling on the topic of NVC. It helps the reader understand the power of NVC as a tool to understand what we really want/need and how to communicate it.

“Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“The essence of all spiritual life is your emotion, your attitude toward others. Once you have pure and sincere motivation, all the rest follows. You can develop this right attitude toward others on the basis of kindness, love, and respect, and on the clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.” ― Dalai Lama

“No matter what issue you’re facing, NVC will set you up to win every time.” ― Anthony Robbins, author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power

“NVC is one of the most useful processes you will ever learn.” ― William Ury, author, Getting to Yes

“NVC can change the world. More importantly, it can change your life.” ― Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul

“NVC can transform potential conflicts into peaceful dialogues.” ― John Gray, author, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

“NVC will guide the reader towards fostering more compassion in the world.” ― Marianne Williamson, author, Everyday Grace

“I believe the principles and techniques in Nonviolent Communication can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. 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

“People are always making the best choices they are currently capable of” -Anonymous

“When someone is angry or hurt, they can turn inward, outward, or cope; those are the options.” – Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

“After the final no is a yes, and the fate of the world rests in that yes.” Wallace Stevens

“When language fails it is replaced by violence, violence then becomes a language.” Elie Wiesel

“Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.” ― Arun Gandhi, president, MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.” ― Joseph Brodsky

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”― Martin Luther King Jr

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

“NVC is an awareness discipline masquerading as a communication process.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it “- Rumi

Mother Teresa said, “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that We Belong to Each Other.”

“Feelings buried alive never die” – a book by Karol Truman

“When people need empathy the most, they are likely to ask for it in a way they are least likely to receive it.” – Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

You can’t shake hands with a closed fist. -Indira Gandhi

While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When people need empathy the most, they are likely to ask for it in a way they are least likely to receive it.” – Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha.

Malice drinks one-half of its poison. Seneca.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. Friedrich Schiller.

“When the power of love exceeds the love of power, we will have peace on earth.”

“People try nonviolence for a week, and when it does not work, they go back to violence, which hasn’t worked for centuries.” Theodore Roszak