On the third Friday of October 2015, beloved Orientation trainer Jerry Koch­ Gonzalez returned to share another day of training and practice in Non­violent Communication with Life Together fellows and staff. The day opened with small­ group meditations on emotional needs and the ways in which those needs impact our lives. Those meditations grounded large and small group sessions and activities to help articulate the four components of non­violent communication: observations, feelings, needs, and requests. The morning session closed with the group observing a modelling of the non­violent communication process with two fellows processing a real shared experience.