NVC

NVC in the workplace

In this episode I go over some possible work scenarios that might call for Nonviolent Communication, focusing on dealing with customers, co-workers, bosses and employees.

NVC is about connecting with ourselves and others from the heart. It’s about seeing the humanity in all of us. It’s about recognizing our commonalities and differences and finding ways to make life wonderful for all of us. https://www.cnvc.org


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The Conflict: Empathy vs. Managerial Action

 

Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach (PCA) in a workplace setting encounters significant challenges when dealing with traditional management practices, particularly regarding disciplinary actions like firing an employee. The core tension lies between the manager’s need for performance metrics and the PCA’s emphasis on trust, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.

Managers often operate from a framework of performance, efficiency, and clear standards, where removing an underperforming or non-compliant individual is a necessary solution for the team’s overall productivity. This is a results-oriented, often “biomedical” or “mechanistic” approach to organizational health.

Rogers’ approach, in contrast, posits that an environment of unconditional positive regard (accepting individuals without judgment), empathy, and congruence (genuineness) is necessary for people to feel safe enough to grow, self-actualize, and find their own solutions. In the specific scenario you described:

Manager’s Perspective: Removing an individual is a necessary managerial function (a “gatekeeping” role) to maintain standards and ensure the team’s success.

Rogers’ Perspective: Unconditional acceptance and empathy are paramount for fostering a secure environment. Terminating someone without fully understanding their perspective, involving them in the solution-finding process, and providing an environment for potential growth would violate the trust of the entire group. The remaining employees would perceive a lack of fairness and a risk to their own security, leading to a breakdown in psychological safety and trust.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8950126/#:~:text=5.,as%20a%20barrier%20to%20PCC.

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What Active Listening is not:

    • Jumping in with “help” in the form of “good advice”
    • Questioning to get at the “facts”
    • Reassuring to make them “feel better”



Simply put,
roadblocks take the conversational ball
out of the speaker’s hands
and puts it firmly into the listener’s.

The 12 Roadblocks to Communication:

https://www.gordonmodel.com/work-roadblocks.php

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” Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them. Assata_Shakur

Active Listening

We Think We Listen, but that might only be a thought!
“Our first reaction to most of the statements that we hear from other people is an immediate evaluation or judgment, rather than understanding. I believe this is because understanding seems risky.
~Carl Rogers

https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/

🌺❤🌺 “The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead.
~Albert Einstein 🌺❤🌺

 

..::”For me, the Jewish religion, like all others, is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions… And the Jewish people have no different quality for me than all other people”.  ~ Albert Einstein

 

Einstein viewed the “cult of individuals” as unjustified and often in bad taste, noting that it was unfair to select a few for “boundless admiration” while ignoring everyone else. 

(He explicitly stated he could not see anything “chosen” about Jewish people)

 

 
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”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.
~People will convince themselves they are fighting you…
~while being blind to the fact that it was never actually about you…
~it has actually been a one-sided beef with their Creator all along.
~This is why we say, “Don’t kill the messenger
 
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..::” Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact One and the same. 

~Marshall Rosenberg

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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
~ Albert Camus
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Imagine living on the only known planet in the infinite universe, where the mortified rich get richer by colonizing the people to follow debunked dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of war, projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children inherit a brutal indoctrination instead of Living Sacred Life.  https://empathymatters.org/armageddon/

The phrase “Domination leads to Ritual Sacrifice” bridges the gap between historical sociology and ancient anthropology.

Throughout history, domination—the exertion of control, barbaric power, or authority over others—has frequently been inextricably linked to ritual human sacrifice.

This connection manifests in both structural power dynamics and ancient religious practices.

The transition from domination to human sacrifice is essentially the barbaric projection of unhealed guilt onto other human beings, often innocent children.

EmmasWorld.101 

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What’s #memoricide ?
It’s time to save our stories, our history, our truth.
#emmaswords #wordsmatter

“Truth hurts, and that why Israel kills everyone who dares to speak it out!

So Please 🇮🇱 Spare us your deceitful accusation of Anti-Semitism🙄

Dr. Areilla Oppenheim at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, did the first extensive DNA study in 2001 of Israelis & Palestinians, and concluded that the emigrants on ships to Palestine before it became Israel were of Mongol 40% & Turkish 40% genome…there was no
Semetic blood associated to the original Hebrews from the Middle East of 4,000 years ago in Jerusalem or Biblical territory.

This was confirmed by another DNA project by Dr. Eran Elhaik at the McKusick-Namans Institute of Genetic Medicine at the John Hopkins
University of School of Medicine, in 2012. His conclusions were the same!*

The Askenanzi so-called Jews did not ever migrate out of the Middle East!*

At the same time extensive DNA evidence found the Palestinians to be 80% more or less, Semetic blood in their ancestors who were found therefore to be the real Israelites.

The white Jews whose ancestors embarked on ships in 1882 to Palestine before it was named Israel—aren’t Israelites. Truth hurts* once again These White Eastern European descendants of German, Russian, Polish, Austrian, Georgian, etc., are impostors claiming to be Gods Chosen Ones, but are descendants of the old Khazars from the Khazarian Caucus & they have been denying this scientific evidence as they have made up myths of their own histories, which already many Americans believe throughout one whole century, i.e. Schofield Bible.

For, the real history of the new established “Israel in 1947” –‘is no secret today!*

Since Palestinians were found to be almost more or at least 80%Semetic. The So-called people are on the wrong side of history.”

via Brad Blinstrub   ” Amen. What we are seeing is the march of the Khazars. A disaster called Israel.

via EnterTheUnseen ” If you truly understand the bridge between Spirit & psyche, you’d NEVER condone forcing religious beliefs on others &/or disempowering people’s spiritual decision making. It’s abusive behavior that breeds religious trauma, which creates fear-based neural associations to divinity.
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https://empathymatters.org/now