Dear friends,

Every so often, gratitude rolls over and through me like a tidal wave, leaving me with awe in its wake.

I think of my grandson, River. I think of my wife, Kim. I think of how blessed we are to have the family, friends, and community we have. 

The other person I’m feeling immense gratitude for today is Marshall Rosenberg. It was his birthday last month, and each year, I get re-immersed in this heartwarming, almost overwhelming, sense of gratitude for this incredible person who changed my life with his vision, heart, and clarity.

Let me tell you how Marshall changed my life.

I had a lucrative career working for different universities. Overall, I was content and the work was satisfying… then I took one NVC class. Within a year, a number of things in my life had shifted, including my willingness to heed my inner voice’s suggestion that I quit my career and work for NVC.

So in the year 2000, I took a 50% cut in pay and began working for a small NVC organization known as the Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication.

From then on, all my relationships, my life’s work, where I lived, and my spiritual path began to change dramatically. Every ounce of inner peace and joy I experience, then and now, blooms from my commitment to living NVC. I can’t think of any aspect of my life that hasn’t benefited from Marshall’s inspiration.

Without Marshall’s presence as our guiding light, there would be no NVC Academy. The live courses we’ve offered over the last nearly two decades would not exist as we know them, the NVC Library and all its resources would be nothing but a dream…

What are YOU grateful for? Care to dive into the depths of gratitude with me this month? When you think of gratitude, what person or situations are you most grateful for? How does it feel to remember your gratitude? I support you in breathing in that rich sense of gratitude… feeling it fully… and then moving to another memory and repeating the process…

So it is with an awareness of the abiding presence of gratitude in my heart that we look ahead to the next chapter of the NVC Academy’s evolution. Exciting changes are on the horizon as we prepare to focus more of our energy on expanding the NVC Library and On-Demand offerings to make NVC more accessible to people across the world.

I’ll share more details about this in the coming months! 

With awe and love, 

Mary
CNVC Certified Trainer and Co-Founder, NVC Academy

p.s. You may also now read these monthly letters on my blog!