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NYCNVC
Trainers and
Facilitators
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Thom
Bond
Trainer
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Trainer
Nellie
Bright
Facilitator
Nirjhari Delong
Facilitator
Elizabeth Banner
Facilitator
Rita Herzog
Guest Trainer
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Thom Bond
- Trainer
Thom brings 23 years of human potential
experience and training experience to his work as an
Internationally Certified NVC Trainer. His passion and knowledge
of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) combine to create a practical,
understandable, humorous, and at times profound, approach for learning
and integrating NVC. He is described as concise, inspiring, sincere
and optimistic, applying transformational and spiritual ideas and
sensibilities to real-life situations. Many of his students
become active NVC facilitators, trainers and practitioners.
As a writer, teacher, speaker and coach, Thom has taught thousands of
clients, participants, readers and listeners Nonviolent Communication.
He has been published or featured in The New York Times,
New
York Magazine,
Yoga
Magazine, and is a regular guest on radio and
television.
Thom has a private practice as a trainer, speaker, mediator, and
coach. He works with individuals, couples, families, businesses,
schools and other local organizations.
Thom is a founder and the Executive Director of The New York Center for
Nonviolent Communication. He is a member of the Communications
Coordination Committee for the United Nations. He is also a
Program Director of the Generations Plus Program (designing and
delivering communications trainings throughout the New York City
Hospital System) and the Program Director of both the NYCNVC
Integration Program and the NYCNVC
Trainer Training
Program.
To contact Thom, please call 212 496 3111 or email him
at
Thom Bond's Bio
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Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
- Trainer
Jerry first learned the skills of Nonviolent
Communication from Marshall Rosenberg in the late 1970s, rediscovered their
importance in 2003, and has been learning more ever since to apply it to his own
life, work, and to become a certified NVC trainer. He has been organizing,
educating, and consulting for social justice for more than 25 years and is the
founder of the Communicating with Compassion project and co-founder of its
parent organization, the Institute for Peaceable Communities. Jerry is a
founder and coordinator for Pioneer Valley NVC and is in the process of
supporting the creation of New England NVC. He is also active
organizer for other NVC organizations on a regional and international level.
Jerry’s areas of expertise include organizational
development, diversity in organizations, communication skills, and conflict
resolution. He has particular interest in the methods of Appreciative
Inquiry, Sociocracy as well as Nonviolent Communication. He holds a M. Ed. in
organizational development from the University of Massachusetts.
Today, as a Certified Trainer with CNVC, Jerry offers training, coaching and consulting
services in NVC, organizational development and compassionate
leadership. He leads NVC Workshops for Pioneer
Valley NVC in Massachusetts and is a trainer for NYCNVC in New York.
He has been assessed and is approved for certification
with CNVC (by Robert Gonzales). Jerry holds high value for care, mutuality, support and contribution.
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Nellie
Bright - Facilitator
Nellie Bright has been studying NVC since
2002. She was a member of New York's first practice group and is one
of the founders of NYCNVC. She has studied with Marshall Rosenberg,
Rita Herzog, Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Miki Kashtan, Ike Lasater, John
Kinyon and Thom Bond. She is a graduate of the
NYCNVC Integration Program
and has enjoyed a role as an NVC Coach as well.
As a mother of two teenage boys, Nellie has
had lots of opportunity to use NVC in her life and brings the richness of
her practical experience to those who work with her. She brings a
"borderless" approach to NVC, believing it to be a tool for
connection and transformation; seeing that when NVC is used with creativity
and openness it can endlessly morph to fit each situation and moment.
Nellie currently facilitates practice groups in Brooklyn and is a
facilitator for
NYCNVC
Intensives. She holds a high value for choice,
presence and joy and is a perpetual student of Life.
To read an article Nellie Wrote about
Self-Empathy
CLICK
HERE
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Nirjhari Delong
- Facilitator
Nirjhari has been studying NVC since the spring
of 2005. She is a graduate the NYCNVC Integration Program and
and is entering her third year
of the NYCNVC Trainer Training Program.
Throughout 2007 she has co-facilitated in practice
groups, at
NVC
Discovery Weekends and
4-Day
Intensives.
Nirjhari currently has a Coaching Practice and in 2008
is co-leading an introductory
practice
group in Manhattan facilitating for
NYCNVC
Intensives.
Nirjhari holds a high value for choice, joy and
learning.
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Elizabeth Banner
- Facilitator
Elizabeth comes to Nonviolent Communication as part of her path of learning and exploration of the human experience. She has led a transformational lifestyle for over 25 years working in diverse environments, at the highest levels of spiritual, social, corporate and political leadership.
Elizabeth is an ordained Interfaith minister, coach, workshop facilitator, and teacher. She holds separate degrees in Education and Public Administration and is a certified trainer/mentor in soulful leadership from the Center for Soulful Living. She is a graduate of the
NYCNVC Integration Program and has completed two years of the NYCNVC Trainer Training
Program.
She facilitates NVC
practice groups in Manhattan and enjoys helping others learn how to connect authentically with themselves and others in a way that supports their lives and
relationships.
Elizabeth provides NVC mentoring and continues leading introductory
practice
groups in Manhattan
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Rita Herzog
- Guest Trainer
If there is anyone who could be considered a founder of CNVC it is
Rita Herzog. In fact, Rita's dining room was the first CNVC
"office." She has been working with Marshall Rosenberg since
1985 and has spent 9 of those years as the International CNVC Board
President.
Over the years she has coordinated and organized Marshall's work in
the US, from managing the database to editing the newsletter to
developing and distributing educational materials (Including editing
"Life
Enriching Education" by Marshall Rosenberg). Today Rita consults with
CNVC by monitoring and facilitating the trainer certification process and
other trainer issues.
Rita is currently an Adjunct Professor at Lakeland Community College
in Ohio as well as a visiting faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of
Cleveland, Ohio. She started and coordinated an alternative independent
school in the 70's at the height of the "free school" movement
and has also been the Director of several daycare centers.
Based out of Cleveland, Rita offers trainings in the New
York/New Jersey area and is committed to supporting a growing NVC
community here in New York and throughout the world. As a trainer,
she is known for her "Natural Giraffe" style and several of
our participants describe their experience with Rita as "life
shifting." We are grateful to benefit from her knowledge and
facility with NVC.
Contact Rita through cnvc.org or at

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