Marshall Rosenberg
Clinical psychologist and founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, who developed the NVC framework used in conflict resolution, education, and organizational settings worldwide.
About
Marshall Rosenberg (1934–2015) was a clinical psychologist who studied under Carl Rogers at the University of Wisconsin and spent decades working in conflict zones, prisons, schools, and organizations around the world. He developed Nonviolent Communication — a four-step process for expressing and receiving with honesty and empathy — and founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication in 1984 to train practitioners globally. His framework draws on humanistic psychology’s emphasis on needs as the root of all behavior, and on the distinction between what people observe and the judgments they layer on top of those observations.