The New Website

About 35 years ago, after offering Nonviolent Communication learning opportunities in several cities, I began mailing out a mimeographed newspaper once a month to people who had attended workshops and to others with whom I was working on various projects. I included in the newspaper information about trainings I was offering. I also included messages from people who had participated in the trainings wanting to share how what they received from the training was enriching their lives.

Initially it took considerable time and effort getting the newspaper to people. After writing it, I needed to take it to a printer to get copies mimeographed. Then I had to address the envelopes, seal them, and put stamps on them.

How much easier it was after a participant in a workshop donated money enabling me to buy a computer. Then I was able to email the newspapers to those with computers and only had to go through the old-fashioned mailing process with people who did not own computers.

As our network expanded to the point that I was working in countries throughout the world, I found it increasingly difficult to continue offering the newspaper and stopped doing so.

Now I am pleased to report that thanks to the evolution of our Information Technology Team, the Center for Nonviolent Communication will be offering a newspaper through our website.

Our hope is that the newspaper will not only provide information about Nonviolent Communication projects around the world but also:

1) provide opportunities for people engaged in projects to celebrate what is working well that they would enjoy sharing with people participating in similar projects

2) provide opportunities for people engaged in projects to request support for their projects

For example, Kudzo Agbeve from Ghana attended a recent Nonviolent Communication Special Session Workshop. He has plans to create a Nonviolent Communication Library Project in three different cities in Ghana, Africa. His plan is to create in the libraries in these cities a Nonviolent Communication learning area containing books, articles and information about Nonviolent Communication learning opportunities.

In the Special Session Workshop he requested suggestions from the group about what he might do to receive the financial support required by the project. Hearing about his plan and about the financial support he would need to fulfill the plan, members of the group were delighted to donate the money he needed to begin the project.

Another participant in the Special Session Workshop, Nafez Assaily from Palestine, shared ways in which Nonviolent Communication is supporting peace programs in which he is involved in Middle East Countries.

Those of us providing this newspaper hope you will enjoy receiving it and that you feel free to offer it to others by printing or emailing it to others you think might benefit by receiving it.

We also hope that those of you involved in Nonviolent Communication Projects would find it helpful to use this newspaper to connect with others involved in Nonviolent Communication Projects; for example, by celebrating something about your project that you would be willing to share with others who believe it might empower them in their project, or by requesting from others that which might support your project.

I'm grateful for your efforts to contribute to a world in which the needs of everyone are being compassionately fulfilled.

Marshall Rosenberg,
Member, CNVC Admin Team
(Other Admin Team members: Margo Pair and Valentina Rosenberg)