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Nonviolent Communication (NVC) helps us stay connected with what is alive in ourselves and others moment-to-moment,
and enhances our ability to make life more wonderful for ourselves and others.
Vision: The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization whose vision is a world where
all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent
Communication (NVC) to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice,
healthcare, and peace-keeping.
Mission: Our mission is to contribute to this vision by facilitating the creation of life-serving systems
within ourselves, interpersonally, and within organizations. We do this by living and teaching Nonviolent Communication.
Aim: CNVC's aim is to provide ideas, experience, and support for the living of Nonviolent Communication in
community. This is accomplished by providing Nonviolent Communication training, materials, organizational consulting, and
projects that develop harmonious and effective relationships.
Brief History: As a child growing up in a turbulent Detroit neighborhood, Marshall Rosenberg knew he wanted
to find a way of speaking that would decrease the occurrence of physical and verbal violence.
As a clinical psychologist in 1961, he set out to create such a language—and to teach it.
Within forty years, people on five continents were speaking that language.
From his childhood years, Dr. Rosenberg was intent on understanding what motivated people toward violence
and why some people, even in trying circumstances, were moved to compassion instead. After studying comparative religions
and the stories of peacemakers throughout history, and using his own varied life experiences, he was convinced that human
beings are not inherently violent. That belief is the basis of the concepts and skills of Nonviolent Communication.
In the early 1960s Dr. Rosenberg left his clinical practice and literally went on the road, teaching people
what he had learned. He wanted to “give away” the communication skills that he had been teaching his clients as a therapist.
In his efforts to apply these skills to the needs of people in everyday life, Dr. Rosenberg found people all
over the country who wanted to learn Nonviolent Communication and he offered it to a broad base of people in their communities.
To meet this need and to more effectively spread the skills of NVC, he founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication
1984 as a non-profit organization. A volunteer staff who shared his vision of a more peaceful world started to organize workshops
in an ever-increasing network of communities across the United States, and then in Europe as well.
In addition to groups across the U.S., CNVC now has regional teams of trainers and organizers in Eastern Europe,
the Middle East, Western Europe, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, and
several countries in Latin America. By 1998 the CNVC team in the former Yugoslavia alone, had trained over 600 hundred teachers
who taught over 12,000 students and parents, and now has developed curriculum materials for use with children from kindergarten
through high school.
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