Origin of the word Giraffe and Jackal in NVC
Here's a clip from a video where someone asks Marshall where these two characters that have become so popular around the world came from: "I just wonder, where did the words ' giraffe ' and ' jackal ' come from? - How did these things come to me? The jackal and the giraffe? The jackal is from outer space! I was driving with a woman to a workshop. and she said, "would you mind working on my relationship with my husband while we drive?" I was in awe of her "I'm holding on to my subject" because she had been hosting me and every day she wanted to work on that relationship. So I was in a playful mood, and I said, "Aren't you tired of working on that jackal?" and she thought that was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. Don't ask me where that came from, I had never used the word before. "Aren't you tired of working on that jackal?" And she thought "oh yeah, that's exactly what he is, a jackal, ...
