As a Leadership Development Coach, Communication Trainer, and Facilitator during these unpredictable times, Sheila Menezes is a strong advocate for empathy and she is concurrently results-oriented. Her work focuses on the essential need to ignite client creativity and the mindset of possibility through visioning, and
A Mississippi native and New Yorker at heart, Kat Nadel now lives in the Bay Area with her husband. Kat’s background - trained dancer/actress, movement and dance teacher, yoga, meditation and travel enthusiast - along with her desire to skillfully and peacefully confront conflict head-on
Eddie Zacapa, founder of Life Enriching Communication, is a certified CNVC trainer in the Sacramento, CA area. During 16 years working in the domestic violence field, Eddie developed a year-long court-approved NVC-based batterer's program with an amazing 0% recidivism after 8 years (no one returned
Susan Strasburger, PhD, has a private counseling practice with individuals and couples in Emeryville, and offers coaching and mediation to leaders and teams in organizations, nationwide. Susan learned NVC over 20 years ago, but started truly "living it" during Bay NVC's Immersion Program in 2007.
Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication nationally. He began practicing Insight meditation in 1997, and soon developed a deep interest in the relationship between mindfulness, embodied presence, and communication. Oren began teaching NVC in 2006 and is a CNVC Certified Trainer. His teaching places
LISA MONTANA came to conflict resolution from the business world, where she witnessed frequent disputes, most of them handled in ways that nobody liked. Working with Collaborative Communication, she found a model in which everyone's needs matter and against all odds, has seen wildly antagonistic
Jared Finkelstein is a consultant and trainer who specializes in communication that transforms conflict into connection. Jared has over 20 years experience in alternative education. A former filmmaker and media educator, Jared taught Media Literacy to youth in Poughkeepsie, NY through the Children's Media Project,
Roxy’s life experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant combined with her academic training and professional work as a licensed clinical psychologist and CNVC Certified Trainer have cultivated a deep passion in her for work that supports social change, whether that’s with individuals, couples, or institutions. As a
Newt Bailey is the founder of the Communication Dojo workshops. His passion is sharing nonviolent communication, through workshops, videos, and other materials, in a way that is very quick to integrate and put to use. In his private practice Newt works as a communication trainer and
Meganwind Eoyang grew up involved in street fighting on Chicago's South Side, studied and taught martial arts and went on to learn full force fighting. Though these activities brought a sense of physical safety, they offered no way of connecting with others. For her, Nonviolent
Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC). She is the author of Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working together to Create a Nonviolent Future, Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual Lives and The Little Book of