#importance of requests

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The only thing that concerned me [about the role play] is that I saw the giraffe express feelings about four or five times without ending on a present request. And when we do get together for another meeting I hope that giraffe learns by then how to make better requests. ‘Cause it’s not enough to make the connection. We gotta go to action.

- Marshall Rosenberg, NVC at the Workplace. Workshop in Munich 2002

Information: Giraffe and jackal NVC series: Overview

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Workshop participant: *makes observation, tells feelings and needs* Now you're in serious trouble. Because you expressed what was alive in you but you didn't end on a clear request and when you forget to add that request, what goes on in you, wolf? “She wants me to feel bad.” See, if you don't make clear what you do want, and someone with these ears hears your discomfort, they'll think it's like thousand other messages they've received in their lives: Just done to make them hate themselves for what they did. So, let's quickly get a present request in there. What do you want back? - Marshall Rosenberg, Introduction to NVC. Workshop in Munich 2006.

Information: Giraffe and jackal NVC series: Overview