Model for Nonviolent Communication

I'm writing this manual to make available some communication skills that I believe empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently. The skills to be described are those necessary to offer and receive empowering evaluations. In contrast to evaluations which influence people to act on the basis of fear and guilt, empowering evaluations provide opportunities for people to nurture, educate, and protect one another and are the nucleus of communication necessary to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently. Empowering evaluations express: What we are observing (the subject of Chapter 2); - What we are feeling (the subject of Chapter 3); - What we are valuing (the subject of Chapter 4); - What we are requesting ( the subject of Chapter 5); - Receiving empowering evaluations will be the subject of Chapter 6.