Welcome to Commune. This is Jeff Krasno. Our mission is to spread the ideas and practices of the world's greatest teachers.

We do that through online courses, a weekly newsletter, and this podcast. On the show, I excavate perennial spiritual questions,

like what is consciousness, what is the nature of reality? How do we live with purpose?

Reality is infinite. We experience a narrow bandwidth of it unless we transcend our senses through meditation.

We delve into practices and modalities that can heal trauma and help us thrive.

Mastering the art and the science of forgiveness is necessary to move through life.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

We explore the spiritual traditions that help us acknowledge that we are all connected

by a power greater than us.

We are all indeed individuals, yet we need to find collective and communal solutions.

We build a sturdy bridge between personal wellness and societal well-being.

It's only when you get people who are pursuing their dreams, living their truth, and feeling

good, that we can actually move the needle of society forward.

To learn about our courses, our community, and everything we do, visit us at OneCommune.com.

Welcome to Commune. For you regular listeners, you may have noticed that I am not your usual sonorous host, Jeff Krasno.

I'm Jake Laub, a fellow commune co-founder, and Jeff is taking a break from recording for a week,

but he will be back quite soon. In the meantime, today I have the pleasure of introducing an

interview Jeff did with mediator and communication coach

John Kinyon. Nonviolent communication or empathic communication, as it's also called, was developed

by Marshall Rosenberg as a way to avoid falling into patterns of judging, bullying, blaming,

or being defensive, and instead use communication to find a way to understand

and meet everyone's needs. To quote Marshall, peace requires something far more difficult than

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