A little exercise Before we start with the self-organization of the team with NVC-plus, we can do a simple exercise. We draw a line through the middle of the room. All team members stand on one side, the other side is still empty. The first side, which represents the old team state, is usually characterized by a functional or even dominant culture of cooperation. On the other side is the new, self-organized team space with the caring culture of togetherness. Those who want to opt for this new culture take a step across the line in the middle and into this new team space. We know the difference between "to be nice" and "to be kind". A dominant or functional culture does not mean that it is not possible to be nice. But cordiality, openness, intuition and the free will to support others is not predominant. It doesn't matter that one person or another already considers it good enough - it's about the team's certainty that it has arrived as a whole in a culture of appropriate or at least sufficient care. Only then will communication, and with it joint process management, be able to succeed reliably. As we will only experience the culture of care in a caring team, the exercise described above requires us to opt for something that we may not really know yet. Nevertheless, the exercise works. Caring also arises above all through caring. It is not so much learned as discovered as an inherent human characteristic, whereby role models can also play a role. Caring frees people from a kind of isolation of the heart. It should come as no surprise that it can also be lived soberly. And as everywhere in NVC-plus, the ideal is what is appropriate or at least sufficient. It is never about perfection.