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Photos above show trainers of prior NY IRTs.
"I am delighting in the new connections I have made. This has started to help me meet my needs for celebration, for hope, for closeness, and for growth, healing, laughter, joy, fun and love. Each time someone in our large group expressed a need or concern, the trainers almost always showed concern and caring in spite of time constraints. This met my need for learning through example and the experience of inclusion. Thank you!"
- Padma, NYI 2006
"...appreciation that I risked sharing my deep sorrow, grief and vulnerability and was heard; appreciation that I approached individuals to request and initiate one on one sessions and my need for self-care was responded to."
- Jayne, NYI 2006
Bios of our dynamic trainers and support team members are below. We will add info about new members of our training team as they are selected.
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Robert Gonzales, PhD: Robert received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989. He met Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication in 1985, and has been offering Nonviolent Communication training in some form since 1986. His original training is as a licensed psychotherapist. He has offered Nonviolent Communication training for community colleges, high schools, churches, social workers, psychologists, mediators, teenagers, and public groups. He has taught psychology, counseling and communication at Prescott College, a local liberal arts college. Robert opened the Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication in Prescott, Arizona in June, 2000. Robert is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He is a trainer at many NVC Intensive International Training's and is currently one of three assessors in North America for certifying trainers for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He is also one of a team of four NVC trainers, the NVC Training Institute, offering in depth and continuing NVC training in the United States and Europe. Robert’s passion is in the spirituality of NVC. He sees NVC both as a process that helps people to connect more authentically with ourselves and others, and as a spiritual practice and way of living. Return to top. |
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Dian Killian, PhD: Dian is founder and director of Brooklyn Nonviolent Communication, a graduate of the 2004 NVC North America Leadership Training Program, and a CNVC Certified Trainer. She has also completed training in the Alternatives to Violence program and is co-author of Connecting across Differences: A Guide to Compassionate, Nonviolent Communication. She currently is at work on a graphic novel, Urban Empathy: True Life Adventures of Compassion on the Streets of New York. Killian has more than twenty years experience as a teacher, writer, facilitator, and social change activist. She has taught primary and middle school age students and at the third level (university) for more than eight years. She has been active in the anti-war, labor, and gay rights movements and in community gardens. In 2003, New York City Counsel recognized her for her activism when she was given a Hero Award. Return to top. |
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Jean Morrison, MA : Jean Morrison, MA,(Psychology, counseling, and wholistic health) has 25 years experience working in the areas of health, education, business, and restorative justice; with individuals,families, and groups who want more satisfying relationships and harmonious interactions. A certified trainer since 1989 with the international peace organization Center for Nonviolent Communication, she is a facilitator, communications coach, and mediator who feeds her vitality and creativity by her involvement in a variety of settings for her work and projects, and continues her own learning process with the diversity of her clients. She is a certified trainer for the HBDI in Thinking, Learning, and Interactive Styles; and is an associate with Apex Adventures for team development. For extra fun...she plays boogie blues piano, loves improv, lives in a small beach town, and enjoys creative projects with friends. Return to top. |
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Myra Walden: Originally from Mexico, I came to the United States in 1983, when I met and married her husband Peter. Peter gave me the opportunity to fulfill my life's dream: to go to college so I could make a living supporting people seeking to heal from emotional distress. I went to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I obtained a B.A. in psychology, and then to the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, where I got a master's in clinical psychology. I have a private therapy practice in West Chicago. I came upon Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in March 1999 when I attended a workshop with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in Chicago. At the end of the day, I was blown away with the possibilities I saw this philosophy had for promoting peace in the world. Since then, I have pursued NVC wholeheartedly, and this has contributed to increased inner peace as I treat myself more compassionately, and greater harmony in my relationships. In March of 2000 I received a certification to teach Nonviolent Communication, and this has become my greatest joy and passion. As I see it, embodying and teaching NVC enables me to sow seeds of peace. Return to top. |
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Jane Connor:Jane has been passionate about NVC and its role in furthering connection between people and groups since 2003, when she attended her first NVC training, a 9-day International Intensive Training (IIT) organized by the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Inspired by this experience, she founded the Southern Tier Center for Compassionate Communication in Binghamton, NY and enrolled in the Bay NVC North American Leadership Training Program during both 2004 and 2005. Recognizing the need for more opportunities for the kind of transformational experience she was fortunate to receive in 2003 at the IIT, she founded the New York Intensive Residential Training in NVC in 2004. She also began teaching NVC at Binghamton University, where she is Associate Professor of Human Development. She observed that many of her students were hungry for material and examples showing the applicability of NVC to the specifics of their lives, and co-authored Connecting Across Differences: A Guide to Compassionate, Nonviolent Communication to meet that need with Dian Killian in 2004.. Return to top. |
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Roxanne Manning, Ph.D.: Roxanne is an NVC facilitator in Sunnyvale, CA. As a licensed psychologist, she provides counseling from an NVC consciousness to couples and individuals. Her interests in NVC include NVC and parenting, NVC in minority and underserved populations and NVC and social action. With Jane, Roxanne is the co-author of a chapter on NVC in the second edition of Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology. She is a graduate of the 2005 BayNVC Leadership Training Program and is an assistant trainer with the 2006 program. She is also an assistant trainer with the 2007 BayNVC Committed NVC Practitioner Program. Return to top. |
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Marc Scruggs: Marc is a graduate of the BayNVC North American NVC Leadership Training Program for 2004, 2005 and 2006. As part of his NVC work he facilitates group and individual empathy sessions in school and community-based organizations with a goal of growing empathy "buddy networks". He has participated on several speakers bureaus that promote awareness and tolerance for sexual minorities in schools and the work place and he has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco YMCA where he currently leads an introductory level class in Shaolin Qi Gong in which he incorporates NVC principles. In addition to his community work, Marc’s research article on Anthony Allen, a historical figure of African descent who established the first hospital in Hawaii in the 1820’s was included in the 2005 University of Hawaii publication, They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii. An interview about Marc’s experience as a teen in a predominantly white, rural, mid west high school during the 50’s is featured in the recently published book, Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom. by David Boyer. Return to top. |