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 My
name is Paul Sterling. After a long career as a
commercial fisherman in Alaska, I spent twenty years studying
and teaching communication skills in government, business and
private practice.
And of course, I tried to use my
communication strategies in my personal relationships. But
they didn’t always work. They were great for business
relationships, but not so good fro personal relationships.
Business communication has to do with negation, trading and
compromise, as telling people what to do and how to do it.
these things didn’t work well at home.
In fact, I have one divorce and
two broken engagements under my belt.
So I knew I had more to
learn.
 About
10 years ago I found the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg,
Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org).
I was amazed at how powerful, useful and simple
it was.
I was so moved by this work that
for the last 10 years I have studied this method of
relationship communication. A few years ago, I
blended NVC with systems theory,
neuro-linguistic programming
(NLP) and neuro-associative conditioning with
Dr. Rosenberg’s work to create an incredibly effective way to
compassionately connect with yourself and others.
I teach this simple yet powerful communication method to
prison inmates, at-risk students, university professors,
therapists, counselors
and, of course, couples – lots of couples.
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