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Thom brings 20 years of human potential experience and 23 years of 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
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, 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.
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
Nirjhari has been studying NVC since the spring of 2005. She is a graduate the NYCNVC Integration Program and the first 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.
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 one year of the 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
group in Manhattan (next group starts 4/28/08).
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
