We are the puppets of our needs
Needs are universal: freedom, autonomy, respect, empathy, security, humor, belonging, self-realization, peace, joy, to be seen, etc. They move us to find strategies to satisfy them, but always with the same results.
Even demons need to be understood
This is a detail from a painting by Andrea di Bonaiuti da Firenze from the year 1365. I was looking for paintings of demons and this was the more appropriate, the other were to... scary. hehe. The idea is that demons are an idea of bad or evil. It makes us afraid of...
Statement of purpose for starting the NVC certification process
Friday August 31, 2018 Yesterday I was on the train, and decided to read a message from a good friend of mine. In reading the first few lines I almost cried. His words made me so happy, I saw all the people in the train in slow motion, and I was full of hope. I was...
Getting angry is to easy
I think the original phase I read from M. Rosenberg was "killing is to easy", and its very powerful. But I wanted to make it less violent. When you are reading M. Rosenberg you get to see why he phrases it that way and you read all the context around it, making it...
First Illustration of NVC
This is my first illustration trying to visualize a paragraph that I read from Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. It was very difficult for me to understand the nuances behind it. I guess that rebellion and submission are both very close to or not far from feelings, and in both...