Part 3. How Nonviolent Communication Helps Heal Enemy Images Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication, spent his career teaching the skills of NVC in order to help transform violence into nonviolence in society. Rosenberg gave us a map to nonviolent solutions and a toolkit of skills of nonviolence including observations, listening, compassion, empathy and self-empathy. The transition Charles…

Part 2. Solutions to Enemy Images 1. Learn to Melt the Contempt In Your Heart “We have entertained teachings like these [love, unity and compassion] long enough in our spiritual retreats, meditations, and prayers. Can we take them now into the political world and create an eye of compassion inside the political hate vortex? It is time to do it, time to up our game…

Part 1. The Problem These days, forming judgments based on labels or identities associated with people’s political views, opinions or affiliations seems to be common. According to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), forming snap prejudices in this way is the foundation for various forms of mental, interpersonal, emotional, communicative and social violence. One of the problems…