Pathways to Nonviolent Communication

In 2010, four certified trainers of Nonviolent Communication produced a new tool to help people successfully learn, strengthen, and integrate the skills and consciousness of NVC. They called this tool the Pathways to Liberation Self-Assessment Matrix. Since then, thousands of NVC practitioners have been using the Matrix to identify skills, clarify strengths, discover edges, and navigate their own personal journeys toward emotional liberation and a more just, peaceful, and loving world. Now you too can use the Matrix to set a course toward self-knowledge, skill, and success. This guidebook shows you how. Written by Jim Manske, CNVC trainer and one of the four originators of the Matrix, Pathways to Nonviolent Communication: A Tool for Navigating Your Journey offers clear and specific suggestions for using the Matrix to assess your progress and assist others in deepening the skills and consciousness of NVC. Whether you are a longtime practitioner of NVC or have only recently begun your journey, the tool and techniques presented in this book will make every path more dynamic, accessible, and fun.

Jim Manske has made a lifelong exploration of the types of practices that make peace not only possible, but inevitable. In 2000, he attended his first workshop with internationally recognized peacemaker Marshall Rosenberg. “Within fifteen minutes, I knew my life would never be the same.” Jim has now been learning and sharing Nonviolent Communication for more than twenty years. He is a certified trainer and assessor for the Center for Nonviolent Communication and co-creator of the learning tool Pathways to Liberation Self-Assessment Matrix, which has been translated into fifteen languages and is used globally by NVC practitioners working toward trainer certification. He and his partner, Jori, also a CNVC certified trainer, live and work together in Maui. Their goal is to build a global network of friends devoted to practicing peace by fully integrating NVC into their lives and communities.