On Jim Manske’s Radical Compassion blog, Rick Hanson writes that “it takes heart to live in even ordinary times,” and goes on to describe simple practices that can help you become “more able to deal with challenges like aging, illness, trauma, or conflicts with others.”

This past weekend, Jim and Jori Manske put on a playshop on Restorative Solutions and Nonviolent Communication. That was December 9, 10 and 11^th.

It was a great experience and I furthered my knowledge and depth of empathy practice. We had a wonderful mock restorative justice circle on Sunday to end, and it was great to see how justice can come about when connection and understanding and empathy are the values instead of blame and punishment.

I so long for this model to be used where I live, so that we can have more peace and connection, and smaller and smaller prisons and a safer and safer community. I encourage you to take us up on our offer to do Nonviolent Communication seminars, restorative seminars, for an evening, a day or a weekend, for your group.

By Genesis Young, MD, NVCnextgen’s co-founder

Greetings, friends,

We are excited to announce Empathy Stories, edited by Mary Goyer, has been released just in time for the holidays. This inspiring book of “real life” empathy written by NVC trainers and others, includes 3 stories by Jim.

Please enjoy a copy and give one as a gift AND Amazon donates through Amazon Smile to

Warm aloha,
Jim and Jori