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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Heh. Would be fun to open a carrying case and display a tennis racket and say,"Darling, this is a racket, what you're doing is mind fuck. Bye bye."

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Lot's of fun, yes, but less easy to do when these speech technologies are embedded in the work environment, as they are now embedded in many corporate cultures.

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Re: Did you get the hand-puppets?

corboy,Thanks for all of this.I am thinking of what Margaret Singer observed, i.e. cults can form, be formed around just about any topic/focus, I believe she described equine worship as an...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Speaking of animals, here's a thought:Here is some food for thought.If NVC is not a personality cult, why do they continue to usethe giraffe/jackal animal characters that are Marshall R's signature...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

I suspect the animals are retained as a branding thingy.[www.cnvc.org]and, as an homage to the founder. Possibly, devotees of NVC may regard these puppets as having mystical attributes.Consider, too,...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Isn't it suffient homage to ol Marshall to be teaching and using NVC? Why must the puerile puppetry be retained, along with the jackal and giraffe?IMO, it is a fair guess that lots of adults besides...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Imagine living in a combat zone and being lectured on nonviolent communication by a Jackal and a Giraffe (TM).

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

In all seriousness, how many would willingly go to an NVC training if told beforehand that the trainer would use cutesy animalspeak?Howvopen are NVC person to having features of NVC critiqued and...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

In truth, I have only known one alleged practitioner of the puppet arts, and he seemed to just use this designation as part of a "sensitive male routine".

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

corboy wrote:"Problem with all this neurology stuff is - it encourages us to regard the human person as a computer to be hacked and reprogrammed.No respect for privacy. No respect for otherness."LGATS...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

kdag wrote,"In addition to being a violation of the most basic human rights, manipulating the nervous system of another person should be the domain of neurologists, psychiatrists, and other licensed,...

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Re: anyone have experience with Non-Violent communication (nvc)?

Further to this,Treating others as 'things', or circuits to be programmed has to constitute the ULTIMATE expression of VIOLENCE.bakkagirl

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KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion; Werner...

I had not seen this paper posted before.[www.academia.edu]I think the author nicely addresses the quasi- or not even, religious aspects of est/Landmark.Bakkagirl

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

I am in the process of reading this. What I can say, right off the bat, is that some people did interpret Landmark as spiritual. My recruiter was among them. She said that when she mentioned this...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

From the article, (link):"Similar perplexing “wernerisms” still arise within the Landmark Forum:“You can have any result for yourself or your life that you invent as a possibility and enroll others in...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

kdag,I caught that one, too.Granted, to accomplish many goals we have to find ways to enlist the help and energy of others, but I don't think this is what Werner was describing.Given the behavioral...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

So the author of this article says that there is no dogma, but it felt to me as if there was, because your "possibilities " had to be approved by other Landmark people, and the "possibilities" they...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

kdag wrote:So the author of this article says that there is no dogma, but it felt to me as if there was, because your "possibilities " had to be approved by other Landmark people, and the...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

Absolutely, it makes sense. When I was at Landmark, it definitely felt like directed coaching. I always felt as if the people there, especially my recruiter, would try to steer me toward the goals...

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Re: KeywordsLandmark Education; the Landmark Forum; corporate religion;...

OK, interesting.What I have experienced in working with coaches who I now believe to have been involved with Landmark, or Landmark-style training is that our discussions rarely seemed to relate to the...

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