Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Riane Eisler; Author's Foreword; CHAPTER 1: TOWARD LIFE-ENRICHING EDUCATION; Introduction; Life-Enriching Organizations; Life-Enriching Education; Changing the System; NVC in Education
Sharing the Field; CHAPTER 2: EXPRESSING LIFE-ENRICHING MESSAGES; Preparing Students; The Effects of Moralistic Judgments on Learning; Performance Evaluation Using Value Judgments; Components of Nonviolent Communication; Making Clear Observations Without Mixing in Evaluations; Exercise 1
Observation or Evaluation?; Identifying and Expressing Feelings.

Exercise 2
Expressing FeelingsThe Risks of Not Expressing Our Feelings; Exercise 3
Acknowledging Needs; Requesting That Which Would Make Life More Wonderful; The Difference Between Requests and Demands; Exercise 4
Expressing Requests; The Process Is the Objective; People Can Hear Demands No Matter What We Say; NVC in Education
Fun For Everyone; CHAPTER 3: HEARING MESSAGES WITH EMPATHY; Empathy; Verbally Reflecting What We Hear; Listening for Requests; Connecting Empathically; Empathically Connecting With Others When They Don't Know How to Express Themselves or Choose Not To.

Exercise 5
Differentiating Between Receiving Empathically And Non-EmpathicallyCHAPTER 4: CREATING PARTNERSHIP RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS; Partnership in Setting Objectives and Evaluation; Objectives With Life-Enriching Purposes; Students Have Always Had a Choice; Teachers' Fears of Student Involvement in Objective Setting; Examples of Mutual Objective Setting; Hearing the Need Behind the "No."; Exercise 6
Hearing the Need Behind "No"; The Most Important Part of Learning; Students' Fears of Student Involvement in Objective Setting; Partnership in Evaluation.

Accountability, "Yes," Grades, "No"NVC in Education
The Test; CHAPTER 5: CREATING AN INTERDEPENDENT LEARNING COMMUNITY; Secular Ethics; Developing an Interdependent Learning Community; The Teacher as Travel Agent; Materials That Allow Students to Learn by Themselves; Utilization of Students and Parents in Providing Materials; Volunteer Tutoring Services; The Geographical Community as Learning Resource; The Travel Agent in Action; CHAPTER 6: TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS; The Problems at Hand; Domination Organizations; Conflict Resolution; Mediation; NVC in Education
"You're Dead."

Avoiding Moralistic Judgments and DiagnosesThe Protective Use of Force; Exercise 7
Protective Use of Force vs. Punitive Use of Force; Creating Sustaining Teams; Transforming Our Schools; Bibliography; Index; Note Pages; How You Can Use the NVC Process; Some Basic Feelings and Needs We All Have; About PuddleDancer Press; About CNVC and NVC; Trade Publications Available from PuddleDancer; Trade Booklets Available from PuddleDancer Press; NVC Materials Available from CNVC; About the Author.