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

	Bridget Belgrave: Bridget Belgrave has worked for thirty years in the field of personal development, with a focus on helping people develop awareness and choice, and change fundamental habits that interfere with their joy in life. Since 1996 her main modality for this sharing has been NVC. During this time, together with her colleague Gina Lawrie, she co-created the NVC Dance Floors and other innovative NVC learning and teaching tools. She has led workshops across Europe, North America and India. She is the author of a children’s novel ‘Zak’, and of ‘Connect with Respect’, a handbook and film of an NVC project with inner city teenagers in London, UK. For more information on Bridget visit http://www.GnB.org.uk. Return to top.

	John Kinyon: John is a staff trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and a co-founder of the Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC). He specializes in mediation and Nonviolent Communication as spiritual practice and has offered training and facilitation to thousands of people around the world, including conflict resolution training to Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in 2002. John works closely with founder Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., and is regularly invited to be a staff trainer with him at 9-day international intensive trainings. John has a background in clinical psychology and has started three businesses. He also incorporates a long study of spiritual practice and principles of nonviolence into his work, including study and practice of the work of Carl Rogers, Gandhi, Eckhart Tolle, Duane Elgin, Ken Wilber, David Whyte, Byron Katie, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Parmahansa Yogananda of Self-Realization Fellowship. John lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information about John and his work visit www.johnkinyon.com. 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 two recent NVC and Diversity Intensives. Roxanne 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 11 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. He 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
	Stephanie Mattei: Stephanie is the fulfilled mother of 3 home educated children: two biological boys (12 & 8), and one daughter (4) 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. Stephanie has a Bachelor's in Languages and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and is a BCI Certified Parent Instructor and a graduate of the 2006 Center for Nonviolent Communication’s Parent Peer Leadership Program (PPLP). She has been serving as an Assistant Trainer to the PPLP 2007 and 2008. Stephanie 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. Stephanie has a real passion for parenting education, personal growth and social justice. 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 You can contact her at Stephanie4peace@yahoo.com. Return to top.

Support Team (more bios coming soon)
	Jane Connor: Jane, a CNVC certified trainer, 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 (retired). 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. Click here to register now.