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Permalink Reply by David Eggleton on January 10, 2012 at 12:17am

"From what I heard today during Vital Conversations, the non violent communication process appears to sustain lack and limitation."

The most important part of that statement comes before the comma.  We didn't get far into it, in the little time available.

Nonviolent communication welcomes and sustains what would make life more wonderful, beginning by (finally) listening without judgment to (increasingly to the point) expressions of needs unmet.

I think of NVC not as a technique, but as a foundation for a new culture.

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Permalink Reply by Jitendra Darling on January 15, 2012 at 10:49pm

We run into an interesting dilemma week to week.  A majority of people have expressed that their ideal call duration is 2 hours, yet we tend to come up a bit short on process time.  3 hours would allow for more in-depth process, though it seems fewer people are available for that length a time on a regular basis.

One popular suggestion to solve this issue is to have a series of weekly calls that builds on the one before so the context does not have to be continually reset, i.e. - having a call series on non-violent/compassionate communication.

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