NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters send people to it as the primary source for NVC, recommended for relationships, compassion and difficult conversations.
What it is
A roughly three-hour San Francisco workshop by Marshall Rosenberg on Nonviolent Communication, with full English subtitles added by a fan. He teaches the model with his jackal and giraffe language examples.
Recommended by 6 HN commenters across 7 different months, 2019 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec kite_and_code · 2022-04 · on “Ask HN: A genie appears. What do you wish for?”
Do you have hope that you will find it in the future? It seems like you did not find it yet? I am grateful that I found my key to love both with my spouse but also via being increasingly able to connect to all the other lovely persons and creatures (dogs,...) in my life :) But it was a long path for me. For me, I discovered it more and more after years of dancing Salsa, Bachata etc where the best teachers always focus on connection as well as leading and following. Those experiences together with regularly changing between the lead and the follow - while always being clear who plays which part - was the key for me. And also the book "Hold me Tight" gave me mental clarity which led to mental
Strong rec CuriousSkeptic · 2026-01 · on “Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die”
A lot of NVC writing is pretty bad. I recommend going directly to the source [this video] (3h video, but worth the time) I think NVC is better understood as a framework to reach deep non-judging empathic understanding than a speech pattern. If you are not really engaging in curious exploration of the other party using the OFNR framework before trying to deliver your own request I don’t think you can really call it NVC. At the very least it will be very hard to get your point across even with OFNR if ot validating the receiver. Validation being another word needing disambiguation I suppose. I see it as the act of expressing non-judging emphatic understanding. Using the OFNR framework with active l
Recommends CuriousSkeptic · 2019-09 · on “Ask HN: Are you ok?”
I can relate somewhat. Even with the 5 year mark. 19 years in, somewhere along the line it seems we learnt to understand and love each other. Just wanted to provide the data point, such a thing is possible. One thing that might be just the thing is to checkout the model of “non violent communication” by Marshall Rosenberg. It’s a nice way of framing things, especially with whom responsibility of feelings lie. [this video]
Recommends onion2k · 2022-02 · on “Ask HN: How do I develop skills to comfort people and offer compassion?”
I'd start with "non-violent communication" by Marshall Rosenberg. It's a communication technique. There's a book, but there's also a YouTube video that's a very good starting point. [this video] [LINK]
Recommends sedocmiv · 2022-03 · on “Ask HN: How to Show Gratitude to a Coworker”
One approach that resonates with me is to use the NVC (non-violent communication) framework. How to express and receive gratitude with NVC: [LINK] Marshall talks about jackals and giraffes. In a nutshell, jackal language is what we all use everyday. Giraffe language is the language he is proposing we use to enable human connection. The full talk on NVC is here: [this video]
Recommends roey2009 · 2022-07 · on “Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?”
There's a discipline of communication called, Nonviolent Communication. [this video] It talks about communication via emotions, vs thoughts. I would suggest taking a look.
Recommends contrapunctus · 2023-01 · on “Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)”
I often wonder the same thing. A similar aim was expressed in at least one of RMS' essays. The other comments here remind me of how pessimistic and lacking in imagination the tech crowd tends to be. Because earlier attempts failed, does that make an endeavor "impossible"/"naive"? People cite "human nature", but forget that there exist and have existed systems of living, radically different from what they are used to, which gave rise to completely different "human nature" - or perhaps merely gave it a healthier environment, so it manifested very differently. (This "problem" is frequently refuted in anarchist texts.) I'll leave some links which I think are relevant to this quest. I hope they p
Cites op03 · 2020-06 · on “Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion”
People have been making the point long before Chomsky. Education for the masses is about training people to fit into domination based hierarchies[1]. In the past such systems produced better outcomes. As info explodes and people learn there are other structures besides Hierarchies that can produce outcomes (such as Networks) the Hierarchies start teetering. And training for obedience becomes less important. [1] [this video]