Parenting From Your Heart: Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection, and Choice (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

Parenting that Promotes Peace—Parents everywhere want to connect compassionately with their children, to show them love and offer guidance even in difficult moments. In this packed and practical booklet, Inbal Kashtan describes how the practicing the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process can transform parenting to promote peace for generations to come.

Whether you're parenting a teenager or an infant, the parenting help and guidance you'll find in this booklet will transform your challenges and conflicts into opportunities to parent from your heart. Find NVC-based parenting tips and ten practical exercises to foster trust and improve cooperation even in the most trying circumstances. Learn how to make connection your top priority, share power in your family and inspire open dialogue that promotes mutual understanding.

Inbal Kashtan was the parenting project coordinator for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Her work on parenting has been published in Mothering and other magazines. Inbal founded the NVC Parenting Peer Leadership Program and was the first to create an NVC Family Camp. Inbal also co-founded BayNVC, the BayNVC Leadership Program, and the BayNVC Diversity Project. After living with cancer for several years, Inbal passed away in 2014.