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| Book Review: "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" | ||
| 作者 | Crowley, Vivianne |
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| 出處題名 | The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society |
| 卷期 | v.79 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2004.05 |
| 頁次 | 52 - 53 |
| 出版者 | The Buddhist Society |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/ |
| 出版地 | London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION: A Language of Life, by Marshall B Rosenberg, foreword by Arun Gandhi, PuddleDancer Press, Encinitas CA, 2003, ISBN 1 872 005 03 4, pp. 248, ￡15.50. |
| 摘要 | With a foreword by Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi, President of the M K Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Nonviolent Communication is not specifically a Buddhist book, but it is an interesting exposition of the principles and techniques of non-violent communication. Rosenberg's approach is to teach people to reframe confrontational encounters and to replace old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of criticism and judgement. He trained originally as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist but was later influenced by the work of the humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers. He has developed training in non-violent communication that is widely used in the United States, Europe, Palestine, Israel and major conflict centres such as Rwanda to help opposing individuals and groups to conduct a dialogue with one another. Where Rosenberg's approach sits easily with Buddhist practice is his emphasis on changing our interior state of being as a prelude to entering into dialogue with others. From our inner state, he moves to the use of language, advocating language that empathizes with the 'other' in any dialogue, whether between parent and adolescent, opposing religious or ethnic factions, management and staff, teachers and pupils, prisoners and prison staff, or different interest groups in a hospital setting. His approach is set out the in a text as a series of steps of observing a situation without evaluating, identifying and experiencing one's feelings in relation to the situation and taking responsibility for them rather than blaming others for them, expressing one's needs clearly so that the other party can understand them and practising empathy and compassion towards others and their needs. The focus of the book is on clarity and on recognizing our reactions to situations as the source of distress rather than the situations themselves. This is a valuable book. The only qualification is that the examples of non-violent communication are geared towards American readers and would need to be rephrased for a European readership. |
| ISSN | 00263214 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 714 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.09.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.11.05 |
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