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- Nonviolent Communication Episode 6
The six women discuss feedback they received from Book Interrupted Series 5 on “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg, as well as previous series. Amongst chats about the importance of stories, trying to use nonviolent communication in real life, and the stigma of being a stay-at-home parent, they set a new BI challenge: eat something decadent in public and report back.
Discussion Points:
- Fan feedback and comments
- Is eating a big bag of chips in public brazen?
- Enjoying the journey of life
- Book Interrupted challenge: eat something decadent in public
- Societal pre-conditioning - the stigma of stay-at-home parents and the unemployed
- The importance of stories
- Trying to use nonviolent communication in real life
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
Desmond Cole
Ice Cream At Work | Baroness von Sketch Show
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
36 min - 46 min
- Nonviolent Communication Episode 5
The Book Interrupted women discuss “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg; how they express anger; gratitude; and dancing it out. They finish the episode by sharing their final book reports. Would they recommend this book?
Discussion Points:
- Anger and how we express it/why we scream
- Emotions as a wakeup call, giving you feedback
- The importance of stopping and breathing
- Dancing it out! “Never walk when you can dance.”
- How to be thankful in a specific manner
- Final book reports - what do we think of the book?
- Changing mindset from “I have to” to “I choose to”
- Change comes through doing
- The difficulties of using NVC with children
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
47 min - Nonviolent Communication Episode 4
The Book Interrupted women discuss “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg; tools to communicate and empathize; and the limitations of NVC, including potential ways it can be used in bad faith. After a debate about whether they should empathize with people they think are doing hateful or abusive things, they finish with each naming their primary need/s.
Discussion Points:
- The many ways to communicate, understanding the person, and sharing our needs
- Using NVC to communicate between parents and children
- How to not feel responsible for other people’s feelings, but still help people fulfill their needs
- How people who show love by doing can create a codependency
- The limitations of NVC: the importance of choosing who you use NVC with, do both people need to know these skills for this to work, and how NVC can be used in bad faith to manipulate others
- Should you empathize with people you think are doing hateful or abusive things?
- What are your primary needs?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity By Kim Scott
36 min - Nonviolent Communication Episode 3
The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading: “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Then, continuing the group discussion, they reflect on how they respond to conflict, empathy during the pandemic, how they communicate their different needs, and learning to listen.
Discussion Points:
- What are our needs?
- How do we respond to anger, conflict and negative feedback?
- Dealing with changes in our lives and how we share that knowledge with others
- Learning to listen, empathy and the tools of how to connect
- How nonviolent communication is effective for use in conflicts and big emotions, but does not work for emergencies and everyday conversations
- The different ways people deal with problems - trying to figure out individual needs
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
47 min - Nonviolent Communication Episode 2
The Book Interrupted women continue their conversation on “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg. By debating their different communication styles, ranging from keeping it all inside to having no secrets at all, they share what they need to connect. Can they learn how best to speak to each other, despite their differences?
Discussion Points:
- Reevaluating our communication styles
- Naming our feelings
- Telling people you appreciate them
- Name calling and why we lash out in rage
- Marshall B. Rosenberg and his puppets
- How to communicate your needs and understand other people’s needs
- The differences between people who share all and those who don’t
- Communicating with our body language
- How to be more blunt
- Emotional Intelligence and taking time to figure out our feelings
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Armchair Expert
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
40 min - Nonviolent Communication Episode 1
The Book Interrupted women begin their first conversation on their Series 5 book choice: “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Each member expresses individually how they feel either before reading or beginning to read “Nonviolent Communication”, then they continue the discussion into a group chat. Through the topics of feelings, needs, conflict and personal narrative, they talk about their lives, inspired by the words of Marshall B. Rosenberg.
Discussion Points:
- Figuring out your feelings and needs
- How to listen
- How can people-pleasers balance their own needs with the want for peace?
- The role personal narrative can play in our reactions to situations
- The four components of NVC: observations, feelings, needs and requests
- How can conflict hinder communication?
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Your Parenting Mojo
The Enneagram Institute
34 min - White Fragility Episode 6
The six women discuss feedback and the public versus private comments they received from Book Interrupted Series 4, Episodes 1 through 5, on “White Fragility” by Robin Diangelo.
Discussion Points:
- Why don’t people speak up on social media about White Fragility?
- Practicing talking about racism, speaking up, being vulnerable, stumbling forward
- Cancel culture, accountability culture, apologies, and showing how you made amends
- How to pick your battles/set your own boundaries
- Things white people say to POC and fetishizing POC
- Self awareness, change, mindfulness and bringing down our white people blinders
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
@the_brown_squiggy
Beastie Boys Story
Real Things White People Have Said to Me - Lilly Singh
Good Hair
Down the Rabbit Hole
48 min - White Fragility Episode 5
Fan Squiggy and the six women continue the discussion on ideas from “White Fragility” by Robin Diangelo, concluding with their final book reports. How can they learn to speak up, fight against white solidarity, and just keep stumbling forward? Would they recommend this book to other readers?
Discussion Points:
- Activism and the POCnic in Prince Edward County, Ontario
- Racist words behind closed doors
- White Solidarity/“white silence is violence”/learning to speak up
- Tone policing and white fragility
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
@the_brown_squiggy
Teacher goes on racist rant, not realizing Zoom was on, mother of Black child says
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
46 min - White Fragility Episode 4
Fan Squiggy and the six women discuss ideas from “White Fragility” by Robin Diangelo. How do we talk to children about racism? Can we get to equality together? What is the role of the bystander? Why has it taken so long to have many shades of ‘nude’ crayons and undergarments? Plus, seeing Sharon Osborne’s white fragility play out on tv!
Discussion Points:
- Racism in Canada
- Other books and resources on antiracism
- White Fragility in action on television
- Apologizing versus making amends
- The nice guy/‘friend zone’
- The intersectionality of feminism, antiracism, trans and gay rights, fatphobia
- Speaking up/the role of the bystander
- Old movies and media influence
- How to talk to children about racism
- Different shades of skin colour, crayons, underwear, ‘nude’
- Getting it out of the “uncomfortable is rude” realm/ revisiting ‘manners’
- Body positivity
Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:
Book Interrupted Website
Book Interrupted YouTube Channel
Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
‘The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black’ by Desmond Cole in Toronto Life
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
'The Talk': Sheryl Underwood, Sharon Osbourne Discuss Racism
Oprah with Meghan and Harry
Piers Morgan Walks Off Set During Meghan Markle Debate
That ’70s Show
The Big Bang Theory
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Bystander effect
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Milgram experiment
Ghostbusters
knix.ca
Crayola Colors of the World Skin Tone Crayons
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Aubrey Gordon (@yrfatfriend)
MsLindsayM of Lindsay’s Loves (@mslindsaym)
47 min
About Book Interrupted
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Welcome to Book Interrupted, a book club for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life’s interruptions.