Tuesday, 6th February 2018, Tilman Rieger for MOTIVATE Shanghai

Communication is a basic human activity that everyone should continue to work on to be more effective in life and at work.  After all, it is our main tool to connect with one another. It is a competency that is acquired throughout life but unfortunately not always in the most effective way which can then cause frustration, fear, relationship problems, childhood difficulties, violence and even wars.

The Psychologist Dr. Marshall Rosenberg has developed a simple, yet powerful method to help this problem. He calls it Non violent communication (NVC). NVC can save marriages, help parents raise their children, schools and all other institutions to function better. It can even stop rapes and murders by shifting the attacker’s focus away from anger.

NVC teaches people how to:

a)    Remain connected while communicating in challenging situations.
b)    Prevent the counterpart from becoming defensive.
c)    Take responsibility for our own feelings, words and actions.
d)    Do not take responsibility for the feelings of others.  

Improving our communication techniques can help us keeping an attitude of mutual respect. Poor communication methods tend to stop communication altogether, or drop it down into the survival mode, where we tend to compete rather than cooperate to solve our problems.

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