Dr. Rosenberg's engaging workshops use giraffe and jackal hand puppets to help illustrate the mechanisms of communication. The giraffe, with its large heart and gentle nature, has become the organization's metaphor for nonviolent communication, while the jackal represents life-alienated consciousness and language. Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is affectionately referred to as "Giraffe Language."

The organization's website includes a history of the organization, schedules of NVC classes and workshops, and books and tapes on Nonviolent Communication for children and adults. Several exceptional articles on parenting and nonviolent communication have recently been added, and parents are invited to join the CNVC parenting egroup.

NVC shares two key premises with attachment parenting: Human actions are motivated by attempts to meet needs, and trusting relationships are built through attentiveness to those needs. Both premises contrast with prevailing child rearing practices and with the assumptions about human beings that underlie these practices. Instead of focusing on authority and discipline, attachment parenting and NVC provide theoretical and practical grounds for nurturing compassionate, powerful, and creative children who will have resources to contribute to a peaceful society.

If you have an opportunity to attend a workshop, you are fortunate. If any group can effect peace in our world and in our homes, it is surely the CNVC. We enthusiastically recommend this website and all of this organization's important work.