Our Training Team

padma 2006 Each year, the New York Intensive program brings experienced, dynamic trainers from around the world to New York state to increase participants' access to a diverse topics and experiences within NVC. Some participants return to the intensive year after year, attracted to the consistent quality of our trainers and the breadth of topics they offer. We also have 8 to 10 experienced assistants who support the intensive by providing empathy, coaching and mediation to our participants each year. Bios of this year's dynamic trainers and support team members are below. We will add info about new members of our training team as they are selected.

Trainers

	Arnina Kashtan: Arnina Kashtan, a poet, musician and performer, has been living and teaching NVC since 1992 in Israel, the US and Europe. Founder of Meitarim (“strings” in Hebrew), the Center for NVC in Israel, (in 2000), Arnina has facilitated thousands of people in their transformational path, in her workshops, coaching, therapy and mediation sessions, where she works with individuals and groups, couples & parents, teachers & psychologists, as well as social, governmental and business organizations. In 2004 she co-founded the NVC Concsious Leadership bi-annual Training for Trainers in Israel. A long-time facilitator of The Work (TW) of Byron Katie, Arnina has developed a unique synergy of various modalities, principally NVC & TW, into a dynamic self-realization tool. She specializes in working with anger, fear, guilt, and shame, limiting patterns and beliefs, and parent-child relationships. In her work she helps people re-discover their universal core needs, the heart’s truth. Her view is, that connecting with our needs, we free ourselves from debilitating, disconnecting beliefs, re-learn to listen to ourselves – and, as a result, to others – while learning to make new, conscious, empowered choices. The author of the first comprehensive NVC workbook in Hebrew (2006), and the editor of the first Katie’s (2007) and Marshall Rosenberg’s books in Hebrew (2009), as well as being interviewed in leading magazines, radio and TV programs in Israel, Arnina is also acclaimed for her blending of a profound, laser-like mode of inner-introspection with a rare sense of empathic humor. Return to top.

	Roxy Manning: Roxy has been using NVC in her psychotherapy practice since 2003 and has been teaching NVC since 2005. She is a trainer with BayNVC's North America NVC Leadership Program and has been working with BayNVC as a trainer to increase their range of offerings in the South Bay both for parents and for couples. She is a main organizer for the annual New York Intensive, and one of the organizers and trainers for the three recent NVC and Diversity Intensives. Roxy has also been working with BayNVC and the NVC Academy to offer advanced training and coaching focused on NVC in clinical settings to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals and agencies. Roxy holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Binghamton University, NY. Return to top.

	Jorge Rubio:Jorge Rubio Vollert has been a CNVC certified trainer for 12 years. He has worked intensively in his country of origin, Colombia, as founder and executive director of The Foundation for Nonviolent Communication Center and participated in the Presidential program "Haz Paz", with the intention to create a culture of peace in a country of war. He also directed three Community Peace pilot projects with the Colombian Institute for the Welfare of the Family, and worked at the INEM School (Instituto Nacional de Educacion Media), a public school in Ibague that serves the poorest economic strata. Jorge travels internationally to conduct workshops, and to consult and mediate with businesses, schools, organizations, police, families and individuals. He is currently working in the U.S., Spain, and Latin America trying to support the creation of living empathic networks. Recent extensive work in several regions of Bolivia has included workshops with government agencies at the national level, with child protective agencies, and with community and human rights organizations. Return to top.

Children's Program Trainers
	Stephanie Bachmann Mattei: Stephanie is the fulfilled mother of 3 home educated children: two biological boys (13 & 9), and one daughter (5) who joined the family through adoption. Stephanie was born and raised in Florence, Italy, and has lived in the USA since 1993, when she married her beloved husband, Giuseppe. Stephanie has a Bachelor's in Languages and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and is a BCI Certified Parent Instructor. She has been serving for over 10 years as a volunteer Leader with La Leche League International, facilitating support group meetings, and consulting with mothers about breast-feeding and parenting issues. Inbal Kashtan has been the first CNVC Trainer that profoundly touched Stephanie, and introduced her to the practical applications of NVC and Parenting. In 2006 Stephanie graduated from the “Peer Parent Leadership Program,” –created and lead by Inbal- and has been involved in this NVC program ever since: as an Assistant Trainer (07 and 08) and as an Intern Trainer (09) under the guidance of CNVC Trainer Ingrid Bauer. Stephanie is also deeply grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve both at the “NVC And Diversity Retreat 2008” and the “New York intensive Residential Training 2009” as the Children’s Program Trainer. Stephanie has a real passion for spirituality, parenting and healing. She loves playing with and learning from her kids. Stephanie leads parenting workshops and telephone-courses, writes parenting articles and offers parenting/attachment phone counseling, based on the teachings of Nonviolent Communication, neuroscience and love-based parenting with the Consciously Parenting Project. Stephanie also serves at the NVC Academy as a Teleclass Coordinator. You can contact her at stephanie@consciouslyparenting.com. Return to top.

	Giuseppe Mattei, married to Stephanie, his wife of seventeen years, loves being a father of two boys full of energy and a daughter full of life! Born and raised in Naples, Italy, Giuseppe first moved to the USA in 1984 to pursue his M.Div. and M.A. He has been a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America since 1993. One of the areas of ministry Giuseppe enjoys most is being with youth and the fun that mutual giving and receiving creates. His first encounter with NVC was in 2002 in NYC for a weekend with Marshall Rosenberg. He has been hooked on NVC ever since, recognizing how NVC supports him in manifesting his deepest passions: to connect with Spirit, and to support others in living a life connected to the Living Energy we all share. Since that weekend in NYC, Giuseppe has attended an IIT, a Living Energy retreat and the BayNVC Leadership program in 2007 with Miki and Inbal Kashtan. He is currently part of the East Coast Mediation Immersion Program, with John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. Being the father of three home educated kids, he has always been very involved in their lives serving as a Soccer Coach for their Homeschooling Group, facilitating learning experiences and chaperoning them to field trips! He is grateful to be able to support the NY Intensive serving the children and youth that will attend the program. Return to top.

Support Team (more bios coming soon)
	Shivani Gail Caroll: Shivani lives in Boston, MA with her 13 year old daughter, a dog, and two cats. After a few years of "off and on" study and practice, in 2006 she attended and graduated from BayNVC's Intensive year-long Leadership Program - and has been passionate about NVC ever since! A rough estimate of the amount of NVC training she has participated in came to about 120 days! In 2009-2010, she co-organized the first NVC Mediation Immersion Program to be held on the east coast - facilitated by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. She is currently participating as an organizer and assistant in that program. Shivani began teaching NVC in 2006, with the transformative power of compassion as the undercurrent that runs through her practice and teaching. She has a private practice in the Boston area, offering private clients/couples NVC empathy and mediation. Her background includes over two decades as a line producer in film and tv production, and she enjoys contributing the skills of organizing and marketing, that were honed through decades of film production, to NVC learning events and retreats! She deeply values her spiritual practices of meditation and seeing humanity in all, and was drawn to NVC as a strategy that provided a way to bring this part of herself into her day to day living and relationships. To her, NVC is "walking the talk". Shivani loves being a mother, dancing, laughing, community and reading of eastern scripture. Return to top.

	Jane Connor: Jane is passionate about increasing harmony and peace on the planet and is particularly eager to share NVC and the Restorative Circles process in under-served communities. She recently returned from a term spent in East Africa where the receptivity to these processes was extremely gratifying to her. Jane, a CNVC certified trainer, is co-author of Connecting Across Differences: An Introduction to Compassionate, Nonviolent Communication. She was a founder and organizer for many years of the New York Intensive Residential Training for Nonviolent Communication. Jane also greatly values living in community and using NVC and Restorative Processes to enhance the experience of community living. Return to top.

	Sherry Jennings: Sherry has participated in an Educators Conference in 2005 and the BayNVC Leadership Program in 2007 and 2008. After doing a weeklong Retreat on NVC Mediation, she is currently enrolled in the East Coast Mediation Immersion Program. Sherry has been bringing NVC into her work as a teacher with students, parents, and colleagues since 2005. In addition, she has been teaching NVC to parents since 2007. Currently she heads the mediation team for any challenging situations which arise in her school. She is also a consultant for parents who want to find alternative ways to work with particular challenging situations in the home. Sherry brings to her work the experience of parenting three children to young adulthood as well as over 30 years of teaching experience. She is currently doing research on NVC with children as seen through the lens of the observable stages of child development. Return to top.

	Barbara Kochan: Barbara started learning NVC in 2006 after reading an article in Ode magazine about NVC and Marshall. She went nearly immediately to an IIT in Arizona and shortly after joined John Kinyon’s weekly North Berkeley practice group. In 2007 she went to BayNVC’s Living Peace retreat, followed by their 9-month Committed Practitioner’s Program then their year-long Leadership Program in 2008. Last year Barbara attended a women’s retreat focused on healing. She began leading-facilitating John’s practice group during his absences since some time in 2007, and has been leading it full-time since 2008. Between some turnover in the group, and her practice of encouraging full participation, many in the group consider her more facilitator than leader and the group is now very leaderful. Barbara’s life goal is to bring the sweetness of NVC consciousness to children; a recent change in employment will allow her more time to focus on this long-held dream. Return to top.

	Bonnie Mioduchoski: Bonnie has been practicing NVC since 2006 and has attended numerous residential trainings to learn and practice NVC. She currently participates in the NVC East Coast 9-month Mediation Program and the 3-month Zenvc Ango which focuses on practicing mindfulness/spiritual practice with NVC. She is a mediator with the Harvard Mediation Program, offers NVC in the Boston area and leads a practice group. She explores her interest in the intersection of awareness practice and NVC in her blog "Speaking of Listening." Return to top.

	John Myser: John graduated from the BayNVC 2007 Leadership program, Robert Gonzales' Life 2008 Program, and Linnaea Marvell’s Magical Steps. In Nov 2008, he started work in Minneapolis Family Court, setting up the first Restorative Circle program to deal with family conflict. Restorative Circle provides an alternative track for families who find themselves stuck in our current legal system (an adversarial approach for families in conflict) and who are seeking help to create a solution that supports divorcing families with kids, a solution that doesn’t create more pain in the process. John has a passion for creating systems that are life serving. Return to top.
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