Marshall Rosenberg

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Marshall B. Rosenberg
Nonviolent communication

Marshall Bertram Rosenberg (October 6, 1934 – February 7, 2015) was an American

nonviolent communication, a process for supporting partnership and resolving conflict within people, relationships, and society. He worked worldwide as a peacemaker, and in 1984 founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international nonprofit organization for which he served as Director of Educational Services.[1][2]

Family

Rosenberg was born in

Packard Motor Car Company
and his grandmother taught workers' children to dance. Wiener spent her final years living with ALS with the Rosenbergs, and Rosenberg credits his family's compassionate care for Wiener during the period in his later work.

In Steubenville, Ohio, Rosenberg's father loaded trucks with wholesale grocery stock, and Rosenberg himself went to a three-room school. Jean Rosenberg was a professional bowler with tournaments five nights per week. She was also a gambler with high-stakes backers. His parents divorced twice: once when Rosenberg was three and again when he left home.

The family moved to

Detroit race riot of 1943 in which 34 people were killed and 433 wounded. At an inner-city school, Rosenberg discovered anti-Semitism and internalized it.[2] Rosenberg married his first wife, Vivian, in 1961.[4] They had three children. In 1974, he married his second wife, Gloria, whom he divorced in 1999.[5]
He married his third wife, Valentina (a.k.a. Kidini) in 2005, with whom he remained until his death in 2015.

Education

At age 13 Rosenberg began

embalmer
for a while to measure his interest in the human body.

Rosenberg's first college was

State of Wisconsin paid for Rosenberg's training as a psychologist.[2]
: 752 

Professor Michael Hakeem taught Rosenberg that psychology and psychiatry were dangerous, since scientific and value judgments were mixed in the fields. Hakeem also had Rosenberg read about traditional

moral therapy in which clients were seen as down on their luck rather than sick. Rosenberg was influenced by the 1961 books The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and Asylums by Erving Goffman. He also remembered reading Albert Bandura
on "Psychotherapy as a learning process".

Rosenberg's

Mendota State Hospital. There, psychiatrist Bernie Banham "would never have it where we would talk about a client in his absence". In Mendota, Rosenberg began to practice family therapy
with all parties present, including children. After graduation, Rosenberg worked in Winnebago with Gordon Filmer-Bennett for a year to fulfill his obligation to the state for his graduate training.

Practice

Marshall Rosenberg lecturing in a nonviolent communication workshop (1990)

In 1961, Rosenberg received his

dissertation
, Situational Structure and Self-evaluation, prefigured certain key aspects of his later work with nonviolent communication by focusing on "the relationship between (the) structure of social situations and two dimensions of self evaluation; positive self evaluation and certainty of self evaluation". In 1966 he was awarded Diplomate status in clinical psychology from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology.

Rosenberg started out in clinical practice in

learning disabilities. He wrote his first book, Diagnostic Teaching, in 1968, reporting his findings. He also met Al Chappelle, a leader in the Zulu 1200s, a black liberation group in St. Louis.[7] Rosenberg went to teach his approach to conflict resolution to the group in exchange for Chappelle appearing at desegregation conventions, starting in Washington, D.C. While Chappelle was harnessing communication against racism, Vicki Legion began to collaborate to counter sexism
. "I started to give my services, instead of to individual affluent clients, to people on the firing line like Al and Vicki, and others fighting in behalf of human rights of various groups."

The

San Francisco, California
and was charged with racially integrating the city's schools. He called on Rosenberg to help as before and Rosenberg organized a group but Shaheen was dismissed before it could come into action. Rosenberg decided to stay in California and promoted the Community Council for Mutual Education with the help of Vicki Legion.

He worked for four years in

Albuquerque, Rosenberg supported his followers elsewhere with a Center of Nonviolent Communication in New Mexico. He died at home on February 7, 2015.[9]

According to cognitive therapist Albert Ellis, Ted Crawford, who co-authored the book Making Intimate Connections with Ellis, "particularly liked the anger-resisting philosophy of Marshall Rosenberg and made presentations on it".[10]

See also

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-892005-03-8
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  2. ^ a b c d Witty, Marjorie Cross (1990). "7. Marshall Rosenberg". Life History Studies of Committed Lives (Thesis). Vol. 3. p. 717.
  3. ^ "Interview with Marshall Rosenberg: The Traveling Peacemaker". Inquiring Mind. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  4. ^ News Network Anthroposophy Limited. "Founder of nonviolent communication dies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  5. ^ "My Heritage".
  6. ISBN 0865710295
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  7. ISBN 9781135526597
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  8. ^ Cullen, Margaret; Kabatznick, Ronna (2004). "The Traveling Peacemaker: A Conversation with Marshall Rosenberg". Inquiring Mind. 21 (1).
  9. ^ "Obituaries: Rosenberg, Marshall B. Dr". Albuquerque Journal. 15 Feb 2015. Retrieved 20 Feb 2015.
  10. ISBN 9781591024521
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