Cohousing-L Mailing List: NVC in Community

[Mardi Wetmore (kate]

I am a participant in the NVC training Juva is currently giving at Coho.
All I can say is that I wish this is something I had learned years ago.  If
I had learned this method of communication, I think I may have been able to
save a relationship that was very important to me.  What I love the most
about learning NVC is that it takes the guilt and blame out of
communication.  Since I have a tendency to be a rather defensive person, it
has also helped me to learn where my defensiveness gets in the way of real
communication and how to get out of defensive mode.  I can't say that I am
"there" yet, it's still hard for me to get into the NVC mode of
communication.  But, I know that I will get there some day, and when I do, I
will be a much better person for it.

NVC!  Try it, you'll like it.

Mardi Wetmore
A happy member of CoHo Ecovillage Corvallis
http://www.cohousing-corvallis.com/index.shtml