“Marshall Rosenberg is a clinical psychologist who sounds very much like a Native American elder, and his focus is on he use of language both in communication with others and in speaking with ourselves. It’s basically simple but also very “sharp” in that it makes a painful amount of sense and is immediately useful and, sometimes, surprisingly hard to revise in our minds…”

“One of the things that reminds me of how his approach is similar to indigenous cultures is that he focuses on integration, sustenance, autonomy, and spirit. He recognizes that language is a tar pit itself, and our reliance upon it becomes a self-defeating strategy. It’s like relying on a drug for happiness, so he guides listeners to connect first with feeling and second with language…”

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