Most NVC practitioners with privilege stop at empathy and humility. Miki Kashtan says that's a quarter of the way there. Here's the harder ask.

Miki Kashtan would say listening better is about a quarter of the way there. The harder teaching: needs-consciousness demands structural action proportional to your position.

You bring in a trainer. Three months later, nothing has changed. The problem isn't the training — it's what the training is being asked to do.

You bring in a trainer. Three months later, nothing has changed. The problem isn't the training — it's what the training is being asked to do.

Most NVC training fails not because the model is wrong, but because it's applied at the wrong level. Here's what structural power redesign actually requires.

Most organizations bring in NVC training and get short-term results that don't last. The reason: they're applying NVC at the wrong level. This post is about the structural redesign that actually changes things.

A 2025 peer-reviewed study identified five interrelated walls blocking compassion in organizations. Mainstream OD is finally catching up to what NVC has named for decades.

A 2025 peer-reviewed study found five interrelated walls blocking compassion in organizations. NVC has been naming them for decades — here's the convergence.