--- title: "Lore Baur - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Lore Baur" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/lore-baur" date: "2026-09-18T06:25:48+00:00" language: "en-US" --- ![Lore Baur portrait](https://www.cnvc.org/images/portraits/certified-trainers/Lore-Baur.jpeg) # Lore Baur # Certified Trainer since 2013 Speaks English Current Country: United States Country of Origin: United States **A Statement of Conscience About the Direction of CNVC** I have been a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication for many years because I believe deeply in what Marshall Rosenberg gave us. NVC has profoundly shaped my life, my work, and the way I understand human conflict. For that reason, I can no longer remain silent about the direction I see CNVC taking. I believe CNVC is increasingly incorporating political and ideological frameworks into the organization in ways that are not inherent to NVC and, in important respects, conflict with Marshall Rosenberg’s teaching and vision. My concern is not with opposing racism, discrimination, exclusion, or injustice. I want every human being treated with dignity and care. My concern is the institutionalization of a particular worldview as though it were an extension of NVC itself. I reject frameworks that divide human beings primarily into identity groups, interpret relationships through predetermined categories of power and privilege, or assign differing authority to people’s perspectives according to social identity. I reject treating subjective reports of “impact” as objective descriptions of what another person has done. I reject practices in which disagreement with an ideological claim is interpreted as evidence of harm, privilege, fragility, lack of awareness, or insufficient commitment to inclusion. And I reject any expectation that Certified Trainers or participants should adopt particular political theories, terminology, or interpretations of society in order to be regarded as aligned with NVC. These concerns arise precisely because of what I learned from Marshall. Marshall taught us to distinguish observation from evaluation and to avoid treating our interpretations as facts. He taught us to look beneath judgments, labels, diagnoses, and enemy images to the universal human needs shared by every person. He taught us to listen empathically even when we profoundly disagree, and to express disagreement respectfully. He taught us that another person’s feelings are not proof of our wrongdoing and that our feelings arise in relation to our own needs, perceptions, expectations, and interpretations. He opposed coercion and moralistic “should” thinking. NVC was intended to increase consciousness and choice, not produce conformity. Marshall also distinguished power-over from power-with. His alternative to domination was power exercised with others: seeking willing participation, mutual influence, and strategies that attend to everyone’s needs. His social vision did not depend upon dividing humanity into morally ranked categories. Even in situations of serious injustice, he asked us to resist harmful actions without surrendering our capacity to see the humanity and needs of everyone involved. Nonviolence naturally attracts people committed to social and political causes. But an organization entrusted with preserving NVC has a responsibility to protect it from ideological capture from the left, the right, or anywhere else. I want CNVC to protect freedom of thought; the distinction between observation and interpretation; empathy without required agreement; universal human needs; genuine curiosity across disagreement; and the ability of people with very different political and philosophical views to practice NVC together. Marshall Rosenberg did not leave us a political ideology. He left us a way of seeing human beings. That inheritance is fragile. I remain deeply committed to Nonviolent Communication. My increasing distance from CNVC comes not from abandoning Marshall’s vision, but from my desire to preserve it. 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