Nonviolent communication (NVC) - Suomessa Rakentava Vuorovaikutus

Several years ago i came across a book called: "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" from a man called Marshall B.Rosenberg and i found it very interesting. Several years before that i had already heard about NVC but i didn´t learn much about it at the time. After reading Rosenberg's book i wanted to learn more so i got "nonviolent communication training course", an audio tutorial to get deeper into the history, technique and the application of NVC in our daily lives.  NVC is an amazing tool for observing our thinking patterns and the way we communicate with ourselves and others. Along with Vipassana meditation, NVC is a technique that every human would benefit from learning. If all people on the planet would practice these two amazing transformative techniques, the world would be a better place. Here are some links about NVC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

http://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/index.htm

https://www.cnvc.org/

Related topic to NVC is about education. Marshall Rosenberg talks a lot about how people have been educated by our social, political and economical systems to think in a way that is causing violence on our planet. He makes a lot of sense. Most people think that education means school. To a degree yes but also the way that most schools function in our society is just to turn human beings into non-thinking machine slaves. In school people are meant to learn to work for extrinsic rewards (grades in school, salary at work) without regards to whether it is beneficial or not. Also people are meant to learn obedience to authority (a system who can either punish or reward according to how people are labelled: good or bad)

Before i went to school i already knew how to read and do basic maths so i was sitting there bored. Then we were supposed to study all kinds of nonsense as for example history that is very one sided story, told only from one point of view having little to do with reality. Over the years i spent in conventional school, i was very motivated to learn what interested me but not willing to become a mindless slave. So eventually i left at the age 18. If i had had a chance to go to a Steiner school, i could have stayed for longer. On the other hand, i don´t know much about Steiner education, perhaps at some point i would have run into same difficulties with this system as well? My last name is Freeman and that really states my personality: free of external control and free to be myself.

Real education comes from life. And i have been blessed to meet many amazing teachers. Some of them non-human like the spirits of entheogenic plants.

There is an author that i like very much who talks a lot about education. His name is Alfie Kohn and i recommend reading his books or articles. Also i have seen a few talks on video and they are really good.

http://www.alfiekohn.org/

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