Nonviolent Communication Episode 6
07/26/21 • 35 min
The six women discuss feedback they received from Book Interrupted Series 5 on “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg, as well as previous series. Amongst chats about the importance of stories, trying to use nonviolent communication in real life, and the stigma of being a stay-at-home parent, they set a new BI challenge: eat something decadent in public and report back.
Discussion Points:
- Fan feedback and comments
- Is eating a big bag of chips in public brazen?
- Enjoying the journey of life
- Book Interrupted challenge: eat something decadent in public
- Societal pre-conditioning - the stigma of stay-at-home parents and the unemployed
- The importance of stories
- Trying to use nonviolent communication in real life
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
The six women discuss feedback they received from Book Interrupted Series 5 on “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg, as well as previous series. Amongst chats about the importance of stories, trying to use nonviolent communication in real life, and the stigma of being a stay-at-home parent, they set a new BI challenge: eat something decadent in public and report back.
Discussion Points:
- Fan feedback and comments
- Is eating a big bag of chips in public brazen?
- Enjoying the journey of life
- Book Interrupted challenge: eat something decadent in public
- Societal pre-conditioning - the stigma of stay-at-home parents and the unemployed
- The importance of stories
- Trying to use nonviolent communication in real life
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
Previous Episode
Nonviolent Communication Episode 5
The Book Interrupted women discuss “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg; how they express anger; gratitude; and dancing it out. They finish the episode by sharing their final book reports. Would they recommend this book?
Discussion Points:
- Anger and how we express it/why we scream
- Emotions as a wakeup call, giving you feedback
- The importance of stopping and breathing
- Dancing it out! “Never walk when you can dance.”
- How to be thankful in a specific manner
- Final book reports - what do we think of the book?
- Changing mindset from “I have to” to “I choose to”
- Change comes through doing
- The difficulties of using NVC with children
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
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Sapiens Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women begin their first conversation on their Series 6 book choice: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “Sapiens”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of cooperation, tacky gifts, book cutting, collectivism in an individualist culture, and raising children not to be a-holes, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of Yuval Harari.
Discussion Points:
- The writing style/storytelling
- Can you walk and read at the same time?
- Cutting big books in half to make them easier to carry around
- The tackiest gifts ever
- Cooperation amongst large groups of people - how the human race is different than other animals
- Raising children not to be a-holes, teaching them to share
- Community versus individualism - collectivism in an individualist culture
- How every action and behaviour has a ripple effect
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast
Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans? | TED Talk
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
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