
Category Archives: Authenticity with Care
The Practice of Mourning Challenges: an Example from a Visit to Israel
How Children Learn About Others’ Needs
Needs Choreography and Mutual Influencing: Decoding the Flow of Interdependence
Apart and Together: Reengaging with the Full Range of Our Emotions
Stepping into Leadership: the Magic of Self-Acceptance
Life, Interdependence, and the Pursuit of Meeting Needs

“Life is arranged to care for all that lives through an endless interdependent flow of energy and resources.”
After years of thinking, reading, writing, talking, teaching, feeling, and communing, that simple sentence came to me in a session I was leading about money at a nine-day intensive training in Chile. …
Crisscrossing Layers of Privilege
Father, Daughter, and House: A Dialogue

One of my favorite forms of teaching is live group coaching, of the kind I’ve been doing recently through the NVC Academy, in a course called “Dialogue with Anyone about Anything”. Usually, I have only the satisfaction of seeing the in-the-moment transformation, when someone realizes they can have an entirely …
Basic Pitfalls of Using NVC
When many people first learn NVC, they become so enthusiastic about the possibilities they see unfolding, that they immediately try to put it to use everywhere. Often enough, the results can be disastrous, such that other people become deeply suspicious of NVC. Here is a sample of what people often …