Listening for Needs: Wisdom of Nonviolent Communication

Gemma Jiang, PhD
5 min readSep 23, 2022
Tree of Compassionate Connection; Image Credit: Seed of Peace

Nonviolent communication is the most impactful language of communication I have personally encountered. It is sometimes jokingly referred to as the “Martian” because it is so different from the deep seated, habitual fight, flight or freeze reaction patterns most of us are familiar with.

Even after attending four courses with Seed of Peace, on NVC foundation…

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Gemma Jiang, PhD

Senior Team Scientist, Colorado State University; Complexity Leadership Scholar and Practitioner; also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-jiang/