Have you had it with "politics" and desire to live in a brilliantly better future? Are you curious about what can replace an age-old coercive organization trying to control you and your property, so that everyone can finally be respected? A dangerous myth perpetuates our political plight in America: The belief that we are free. In fact, scores of unjust laws daily violate our individual rights. Being regulated and taxed to fund governmentally monopolized services, under threats of being fine ...
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Episode 248 - Horrific nature of the genocide, speaking out, contradictions of Zionism and collectivism
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Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml Let aid in. What kind of world is this? This is from a conversation with @nervesurgeon as he is now in the South of Gaza (which is apparently better than the N…
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Episode 247 - Genocidal militaries, Israeli lobby, and transcending the statist paradigm
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-booted-from-frances-annual-eurosatory-arms-fair/# https://truthout.org/articles/us-arms-industry-profits-from-gaza-genocide-as-pentagon-budget-nears-1-trillion/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law Rep. Thomas Massie doesn’t care what you think of him, which is pretty great. https://x.com/Tucke…
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Episode 246 - Ongoing genocide, brutality of settler colonialism and empire, challenging indoctrination
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Impunity in Gaza is a threat to the international order - Japan should defend the rules that it relies on for its own security https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/05/20/japan/gaza-israel-impunity-international-order/ https://archive.is/mqUMS#selection-1127.0-1131.68 Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality…
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Episode 245 - Genocide protests amidst the fascism of USA-supported Zionism and its brutal costs
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the totally lost plot of orthodox, statist Objectivists, misguided by Ayn Rand's context-dropping of property rights amidst the fascistic nature of government https://www.change.org/p/open-letter-regarding-ut-campus-protests Ayn Rand on the 1968 Columbia student protest: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-student-rebellion-at-columbia-university…
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Episode 244 - Zionism resulting in apartheid and genocide, sacrificing safety and security for everyone
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LIVE: Vote for Gaza ceasefire passes in UN for first time since war began https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuGkWj-2xw&t=5770s #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame https://lexfridman.com/bassem-youssef The Dark History of the Kibbutz | How "Socialist" Zionists colonized Palestine https://www.youtube.com/wa…
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Episode 243 - US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, dehumanization and self-made monsters
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Sky News report shows aftermath of Israeli air strike on Rafah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviTpOFvHYQ Journalist Abby Martin's documentary about the 2018-19 Gazan protest https://gazafightsforfreedom.com https://www.msf.org/great-march-return https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive#2023_Israel-Hamas_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…
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Episode 242 - Pandemic of statism, problematic relationships to power and technology, a future of shining integral cities
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https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/04/what-moderna-owes-the-world/ https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-rapid-covid-tests-are-so-expensive-and-hard-to-find https://lexfridman.com/michael-mina-2/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/cdc-director-urges-kids-whove-had-a-prior-covid-infection-to-still-get-vaccinated.html https://jackmcintire.substack.…
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Episode 241 - Free, prosperous markets instead of statist ones, a lasting future via self-awareness and principles
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Opinion | Labor Day is a celebration of solidarity — and freedom - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/05/labor-day-celebrates-solidarity-freedom/ $549M in planes sold as scrap and a $176M road to nowhere: How the US wasted billions in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9909573/5…
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Episode 240 - Respectful bottom-up solutions rather than top-down mandates, Amber stage to Teal
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https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein https://www.youtube.com/c/BretWeinsteinDarkHorse/videos https://naturalselections.substack.com/ On Driving SARS-CoV2 Extinct: Why We Need a Multi-Pronged Approach by Heather Heying https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/on-driving-sars-cov2-extinct scientism and statist coercion... https://www.scientificamerican.…
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Episode 239 - Rights violating security, self-esteem instead of racism, orange-stage culture, ivermectin and crime of the century
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https://thecrypto6.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments-that-may-have-started-coronavirus-pandemic-1500503 Humans, Not Animals, Likely Took the COVID Virus to Wuhan, Contrary to China's Claims htt…
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Episode 238 - Health care crimes, authoritarianism and corporations, realizing and actualizing Teal stage and voluntaryism
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The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake | Thomas Frank | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan…
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Episode 237 - Statist public relations, dark triad traits and systems, needs for trust and integration, conditions for Teal emergence
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Global Health NOW...Lost Confidence in Public Health... https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=eb20503b111da8623142751ea&id=b10fe40ed4 The Anatomy Of Slavespeak by Frederick Mann http://web.archive.org/web/20070203065557/http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml #TL074: Peme-Theory - Basic, Intermediate & Advanced by Frederick Mann https://web.archi…
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Episode 236 - Pandemic solutions, ending coercive monopolies, Teal wholeness processes, evolutionary purpose, and cultural traits
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https://www.postguam.com/news/local/most-travel-related-cases-came-from-philippines/article_a9c9c3ac-a24b-11eb-a928-a3d8e814c7a4.html https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/international-travel-covid-19-open-countries/index.html Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy | Lex Fridman Podcast #178 https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
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Episode 235 - Challenging common assumptions and premises, Teal self-management processes and wholeness practices
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/us/politics/biden-stimulus-middle-class-benefits.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/31/upshot/whats-in-bidens-infrastructure-plan.html JRE | Podcast on Spotify #1616 - Jamie Metzl https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk?si=Qura0LN5SOydb7nIXydfsw https://oneshared.world/faqs/ Declaration …
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Episode 234 - Statist impediments to pandemic solutions and societal health, Teal organizations and self-management structures
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Intranasal COVID-19 vaccine spray could stem spread, researchers say https://www.businessinsider.com/intranasal-covid-19-vaccine-spray-could-stem-spread-2021-3 Human Rights Foundation 2020 Annual Report https://hrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-HRF-Annual-Report.pdf http://completeliberty.com/integration/ The future of management is teal by F…
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Episode 233 - Constitutional illogic, fallacies about free markets and self-sacrifice, critiquing Objectivism, evolutionary Teal stage
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/constitution-americans-civics-test/ Skeptic » The Michael Shermer Show » David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/david-sloan-wilson-atlas-hugged-individualism-objectivism-cooperation-altruism-collective-action/ DarkHorse Podcast with Daniel Schma…
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Episode 232 - Protectionism and injustice system harms, fallacies of socialism, billionaires and mixed economies, Teal intro
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http://healthymindfitbody.com/2020/12/10/144-aerosolized-nanobodies-rna-vaccines-institutional-problems-beef-for-health-non-sacrificial-ethics/ http://healthymindfitbody.com/2020/12/29/145-medical-establishment-problems-rapid-antigen-tests-personal-empowerment-amidst-domination-systems/ Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: The Lab Hypothesis | Real Tim…
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Episode 231 - Integral Theory and practice, addendum
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Kent Ewing: My ill-fated book deal reveals Hong Kong self-censorship under the security law | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://hongkongfp.com/2020/12/15/kent-ewing-my-ill-fated-book-deal-reveals-hong-kong-self-censorship-under-the-security-law/ https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney/status/1346976173230878720 https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/13…
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Episode 230 - Integral Theory and practice, part 7
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In My Awareness [PODCAST #692] - School Sucks Project https://schoolsucksproject.com/in-my-awareness-podcast-692/ Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgNzUxyS-kQ Who Is Bill Gates? : The Corbett Report https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/ How to Avoid a Climate Dis…
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Episode 229 - Integral Theory and practice, part 6
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Into the Shadow [PODCAST #689] https://schoolsucksproject.com/into-the-shadow-podcast-689/ The History Of Shadow | Ken Wilber & Corey W. deVos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4rA2RreC88 https://integrallife.com/integrating-shadow/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung#Shadow https://integrallife.com/inhabit-your-wound/ Ken Wilber - Buddha at the…
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Episode 228 - Integral Theory and practice, part 5
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Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, Show Up - With Wes Bertrand [PODCAST #685] - School Sucks Project https://schoolsucksproject.com/wake-up-grow-up-clean-up-show-up-with-wes-bertrand-podcast-685/ Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, Show Up, Excerpt from The Coming Waves, Dustin DiPerna http://www.integralworld.net/diperna06.html China Signs R.C.E.P. Trade Deal. W…
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Episode 227 - Integral Theory and practice, part 4
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A Path To Panarchy – With Wes Bertrand, Integral Theory Part 4 [PODCAST #682] https://schoolsucksproject.com/a-path-to-panarchy-with-wes-bertrand-integral-theory-part-4-podcast-682/ The Peaceful Path to an Integral Society by Bryan O'Doherty http://www.integralworld.net/odoherty7.html France’s Le Drian in Egypt amid tensions over prophet cartoons h…
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Episode 226 - Integral Theory and practice, part 3
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PANARCHY – With Wes Bertrand, Integral Theory Part 3 [PODCAST #680] https://schoolsucksproject.com/panarchy-with-wes-bertrand-integral-theory-part-3-podcast-680/ Panarchy: The Political Paradigm of an Integral Society, Bryan O'Doherty http://www.integralworld.net/odoherty1.html http://www.integralworld.net/odoherty2.html http://www.integralworld.ne…
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Episode 225 - Integral Theory and practice, part 2
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Integrating the Organization – With Wes Bertrand – Part 2 of 4 [PODCAST #676] https://schoolsucksproject.com/integrating-the-organization-with-wes-bertrand-part-2-of-4-podcast-676/ comprehensive page explaining Integral Theory... https://integraleuropeanconference.com/integral-theory/ Joe Rogan Experience #1508 - Peter Schiff https://www.youtube.co…
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Episode 224 - Integral Theory and practice, part 1
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Integrating the Individual – With Wes Bertrand – Part 1 of ? [PODCAST #672] https://schoolsucksproject.com/integrating-the-individual-with-wes-bertrand-part-1-of-podcast-672/ interview with AeroNabs’ developer Aashish Manglik… Covid-19: Current State, Falling Mortality Rates, and “AeroNabs” https://youtu.be/ljyi_pV1l5A?t=3700 https://www.ucsf.edu/n…
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Episode 223 - Exponentially Empowered conversation 32
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Combine the Head and Heart to Find Clarity and Compassion (with Wes Bertrand) https://exponentiallyempowered.fireside.fm/32 Reflections On Eleven Years of School Sucks, With Joel Bein [PODCAST #669] https://schoolsucksproject.com/reflections-on-eleven-years-of-school-sucks-with-joel-bein-podcast-669/ http://completeliberty.com/integration/ intro mu…
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Episode 222 - Complete Liberty Podcast reboot
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Some shows done after posting episode 221, the final chapter of Complete Liberty Inside Out: 441: The Seventh Pillar of Self-Esteem – (Part 1) The Best Year Ever http://schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-441/ 443: The Seventh Pillar of Self-Esteem – (Part 2) How Self-Knowledge Fosters Self-Education and Individualism http://schoolsucksproject.com/podca…
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Long time practitioner Mukti tells her NVC story, as well as explains how Emotionally Focused Therapy has added another dimension to her couples counseling work. She offers courses at EveryDayLove.com.au that integrate insights from both modes.
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Maria Santelli, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War, and giver of the TedTalk "Witnessing the Power of Conscience," speaks of her work with conscientious objectors.
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Mariska and I explore the linked values of being seen and mattering in a romantic relationship. How does"What do I want?" weigh against, "What can I accept?"
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Michael and I discuss the temptation to seek ego in relationship.
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Episode 40: Toward Sensation & Faith with Stephen Michael Tumolo
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Stephen Michael Tumolo is Executive Director of Heart to Heart: Comienzos East. His organization teaches sensation-awareness, mindfulness, and NVC in jails, prisons, and half-way houses. An article portraying the work he and his volunteer staff do can be found here.
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Erin and I chew over the Max Rivers interview on NLP (Episode 35), and ponder what is involved in progressing in NVC.
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Josh Stein runs The School of Circling Wizardry. This is our round-about conversation about what circling is, and how he got involved. This is not a conversation about NVC--except in so far as all relational practices are one.
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Episode 37: NVC & Authentic Relating Games
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Brian Tohana introduces me to Authentic Relating Games.
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The distinction between a request and a demand, and the energy attendant on each, is nowhere more consequential than in our sex lives. Jefe and I have a preliminary conversation about how this is at stake in BDSM play.
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The Marriage Mediator, Max Rivers, explains how NLP training informs his needs-based approach to marriage mediation.
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In this short episode I reflect on where I wanted NVCpractice.com to go, and where it seems to me to be going. You might call this episode self-involved, but I'd request to have it heard as an exercise in self-connection.
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Episode 33: Adam Vogal & Bystander Intervention
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Adam Vogal is the President of the Oregon Peace Institute. What is to be done when one is out in public, and suddenly on the cusp of a violent situation? Adam conducts training on how to make sound choices.
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Episode 32: Onboarding a Peaceful Parenting Partner
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Chelsea's NVC challenge is that her partner doesn't share her ideas about how to show up when their young sons are in conflict. It's a fascinating conflict about conflict, I think, and we use role play to begin to find a way to conversation.
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Erin and I converse about how to stay in relation to emotions that don't readily admit themselves to names. I share that this is something that comes up for me in doing eldercare.
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What is circling? And how might it be related to the practice of NVC? This is the first in a series of episodes in which I plan to explore that question. The conversation between Andy and Decker Cunov that I mention as having been so taken by can be found here.
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I request some help from listeners in re-doing my response to a Mom who's all in on the power-with model, and we role play to explore her disinclination to let others meet her needs.
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Episode 28: John Lash: From Rules to Relationship
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John Lash of The Georgia Conflict Center learned NVC in prison, and brings a deeply informed and felt perspective to its place alongside self inquiry and the principles and practices of restorative justice. To hear John in conversation with another interlocutor, find Alum Perry's interview with him here.…
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Episode 27: The Marriage Mediator (Part 2/2)
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Max Rivers suggests that a primary potential of an intimate relationship is revealing and meeting the specific needs one gave up on getting met in one's family of origin. Filmmaker Hanna Utkin (The NVC Family Camp Documentary) conducts the interview.
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Episode 26: The Marriage Mediator (Part 1/2)
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Hanna Utkin (whose Family Camp Documentary is here) interviews Max Rivers (whose marriage mediation portal is here). Part One is Max's back story, as well as the framing of the notion of "Needs."
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Episode 25: NVC & Deliberate Practice (revisiting, "Thank you for your service.")
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Sasha helps me re-see and re-imagine a conversation in which I wasn't all that I could be.
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Episode 24: Institutional & Institutionalizing NVC
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M. J. Harding has co-written a musical in which characters vested with institutional power come to use Nonviolent Communication for purposes of surveillance and state-sponsored violence. It's called Removal Men, and some clips are available here.
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Episode 23: "Thank you for your service."
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A retired Army Ranger has had second thoughts about the meaning of his career. Now he struggles to know how to respond, especially in casual situations, to being acknowledged for it.
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Episode 22: NVC as alternative to default settings
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Ryan and I discuss some recent progress he's made employing the NVC framework.
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