Assessor Profiles

We have been working together since Winter 2009. We met during the Assessor’s Training in Stuttgart with Marshall in Summer 2008. There we developed, together with all participants, the first ideas about group assessments and mentoring as one effective strategy to support each other and to realize power with. We understand our work as our contribution to social change. We feel connected with the worldwide trainer group and are a part of the Education Service Team.

More information about me you can find here: www.giraffenpost.de/en/about-me

More information about our assessor team: www.gfk-trainer-werden.de/assessorinnen-teams/team-sud-west

Christlin Parimalanathan Rajendram is a certified trainer for Nonviolent Communication (NVC) from Sri Lanka. Philosophy Doctor in Social Communication. Born in 1943 in the city of Battikaloa on the east side of Sri Lanka, Father Chris was the fourth child in the family of eight children. In 1960 he joined the Jesuits and in 1973 became a priest. He studied and then taught in universities of his country and the USA in sphere of communication and conflict studies.

In 1996 when teaching in the USA Father Chris met Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of NVC method. “This acquaintance gave me a new vision of everything I was doing, in particular of my spiritual path”, Father Chris says telling about his way to NVC, — “I have discovered how to perceive my life and the lives of others in a different way and since then I have been enjoying my study and the opportunity to share with the others”.

Katherine is the founder of the Korean Center for Nonviolent Communication and has served on the Board of Directors of CNVC including as President.

 We have been working together since Winter 2009. We met during the Assessor’s Training in Stuttgart with Marshall in Summer 2008. There we developed, together with all participants, the first ideas about group assessments and mentoring as one effective strategy to support each other and to realize power with. We understand our work as our contribution to social change. We feel connected with the worldwide trainer group and enjoy working together in the Education Service Team.

All three of us are self-employed and have our own business. We have different fields we are working in beside our work as trainers in NVC: Rita is working in companies as a consultant, Doris is a counsellor and Edith is working as an undertaker.

We speak German and English. Candidates from other countries are heartily welcome. We will offer once a year a group assessment in German and English. For more information please contact one of us.

Clinical psychologist and hippotherapeute since 1979, Vinciane works in the area of individual counseling and group inspired by Rogerian approach. Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg in 1996, Vinciane is involved in psychiatric settings and personal assistance.

The accompaniment that sets Vinciane's practice, to help people get closer to their "being in the making", is based on fundamental values such as confidence in life, the power to choose, the strength of love, the power of intention and the art of presence. Vinciane has collaborated on many international and intercontinental projects with CNV since 1995 - in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Burundi, Quebec. She loves working with several projects and joined the French certification team in 2013.

Cate Crombie is based in Brisbane, Australia and has more than 30 years experience in facilitating communication skills courses and workshops. To increase her knowledge of teaching, in 1998, Cate completed a bachelor’s degree in Adult and Vocational Education with a double major in Human Resource Training. During Gina’s NVC foundation training and mediation training in Australia in 2000, Cate was inspired to become an NVC trainer. Gina soon became her valued mentor and friend.

(english below the italian)

Sono stato un artigiano per tutta la vita e sono arrivato tardi alla CNV.  L'artigianato per me non era mai solo un lavoro, ma sempre molto di più. Sono sempre stato interessato a formare cose in contatto con altre persone. Mi piaceva portare le mie qualità e le mie competenze (anche i miei strumenti!) in un processo, che come processo era importante quanto il suo risultato, e che alla fine forse per questo motivo ha portato esattamente ai risultati che tutti noi desideravamo.

Oggi trovo piacere a pensare di essere ancora un artigiano: Artigiano della connessione. Artigiano della pace. CNV è la mia competenza e il mio strumento. La mano che lo guida è l'amore. E ho il desiderio di dare all'amore un buon strumento, uno strumento che possa fare il suo lavoro, perché funziona meravigliosamente per la connessione e la pace ed è ben mantenuto.

Quindi, oltre alla mediazione, trasmettere CNV è la mia passione. Nelle mie mediazioni contribuisco direttamente alla connessione tra le persone; nei miei seminari e come assessor affilo e coltivo lo strumento insieme ai partecipanti e ai candidati alla certificazione e metto in pratica l'abilità e la prontezza della mano che lo guida.

I was a craftsman all my life and found my way to NVC late. The craft was always not only a job, but at the same time much more. I was always interested in forming things in contact with other people. It was a pleasure for me to bring my qualities and competences (also my tools!) into a process, which as a process was basically just as important as its result, and which in the end perhaps because of this led to exactly the result we all wished for.

Today find pleasure in thinking that I am still a craftsman: Connection craftsman. Peace craftsman. NVC is my competence and my tool. The hand that guides it is love. And I strive to give love a good tool, one that can do its job, because it works wonderfully for connection and peace and is well maintained.

Therefore, besides mediation, passing on NVC is my passion. In my mediations I contribute directly to the connection between people; in my seminars and as an assessor I sharpen and cultivate the tool together with the participants and the certification candidates and practice the skill and readiness of the hand that guides it.

Greetings Friends,

I’m happy to join the Educational Services Team as an Assessor. I am grateful for the support of Katherine, Sabine, Kathleen and Karl along this path. A deep bow of gratitude also to Rita, Sylvia, Michael and Alison who have helped me to regain my balance after stumbling along this path for the past three years. (Actually, my path began in 2007. With Rita’s assistance, I became and assessor for the first time just a few days before the certification stop of 2007, so for me it has been a 12 year journey!)

And of course, the deepest bow to our teacher, Marshall.

A major part of my mission since 2007 has been to support the next generation of trainers. Beginning in 2007, Jori, Rodger, and I (Along with the late Kathi Aichner) founded Compassionate Leadership. I became an assessor in training in 2015. If you care about the details of my efforts, I added them below the signature.

My intention can be summed up briefly: To live and radiate interdependence and compassion*.

As an assessor, I relish the opportunity to live this purpose, to the best of my ability with all of you, as well as candidates who enter into a relationship with our organization dreaming of service to our mission.

Every day, I wonder, who needs what right now, and how can I help.

I see one important aspect of my role as an assessor as supporting others in living into their dream of service to our shared mission. I want everyone's dreams to come true!

I see this next step in my service to CNVC as a continuation of my life’s work, to integrate NVC consciousness as fully as possible and to support others with the same goal.

I am inspired and hopeful by what I generally see amongst trainers who have followed me on this path. I deeply long for all of us to remember the purpose and intention of NVC as Marshall defined it. To remind myself, and all of us, I keep it posted on the bottom of most of my emails:

“The primary purpose of Nonviolent Communication is to connect with other people in a way that enables giving to take place: compassionate giving. It’s compassionate in that our giving comes willingly from the heart. We are giving service to others and ourselves –not out of duty or obligation, not out of fear of punishment or hope for a reward, not out of guilt or shame, but for what I consider part of our nature. It’s in our nature to enjoy giving to one another.”  -Marshall B Rosenberg, Ph.D.

I also long for me, and all of us, to continue a never-ending process of self-assessment, using the Matrix, Marshall’s books, the work of other CTs and candidates.

Finally, I long for feedback. I rely on each of you, my community and my team, to be honest with me. I invite you to catch me when I contribute to your wellbeing. Likewise, I long to know if there is anything I do (or don’t do) that contributes to your life being less than wonderful. I intend to keep the lines of communication wide open, in the service of mutual learning.

With warmth and inspiration,

Jim

*This is also the purpose statement of the NFP NVC Community.

Assessment Activities

First contact with Marshall in November 2000

Registered as candidate in 2002

Certified in May 2003 with Robert Gonzales as Assessor

Fall 2006 Became part of Leadership Team (LT) with Marshall and Valentina, focusing on GCC

Spring 2007. Along with Wes Taylor, invited to an assessor by Rita

Spring 2007 Assessment Paused

Spring 2007 Collected and collated feedback for Assessment team, wrote report and made recommendations about how to restart certification

2007 Began working on the Pathways to Liberation: Matrix of Self-Assessment with Jori, Jack Lehman and former CT Jake Gotwals

2011 Published the Matrix with Jake, Jack and Jori.

February 2008:  Started Compassionate Leadership with Rodger Sorrow, Jori Manske, and Kathi Aichner

During Compassionate Leadership period from 2008-2014 coached, mentored or supported the following candidates who became Certified Trainers:

Kathi Aichner

Faye Landey

Bren Hardt

Anne Walton (Participated in Final Assessment)

Yonmi Lee (Participated in Final Assessment)

Diane Diller

Ronnie Hausheer (Participated in Final Assessment 2017 with Katherine)

Carlene Robinson

Cynthia Moe

Jaqueline Muller

James Prieto

Leslie Ritter-Jenkins

Lora Kim Joyner

Roxy Manning (pre-assessment Matrix)

William Pohner

Jack Lehman (extensive mentoring before and after pre-assessment)

Jake Gotwals

Attended Group Final Assessment in Korea (2012) with Gina Lawrie and Katherine Singer

From 2014 to present supported the following with mentoring, coaching or trainer training

Andrea Pro (mentoring before Pre-Assessment)

Go Goto (Extensive mentoring before Pre-Assessment and Assessment)

Yuko Goto (Extensive mentoring before Pre-Assessment and Assessment)

Shigeko Suzuki (Registered, Attended Pre-Assessment/Final Assessment 2018

Haruno Olgaswara (Registered,Attended Pre-Assessment/Final Assessment 2018

Ken Anno (Registered, Attended Pre-Assessment/Final Assessment 2018

Marylyn Muller

River Dunavin

Rosanna Hung (mentoring before and after pre-assessment)

Aukye Byker

Elana Bernasconi-Tabellini

Maya Diaz (Final Assessment with Kathleen McFerren 2018)

Liu Yi (online pre-assessment with Kathleen McFerran is 2018)

Assessor team North-East Germany

During our assessor activities in recent years, we have developed the concept of the TKP (Trainer Candidate Community Program), based on the certification process as described in the CPP, the detailed certification documents. It gives greater importance and scope to the personal work between us assessors and candidates, as well as between the candidates themselves. In the personal encounters, especially at the mentoring and assessment days or mentoring theme days, we have repeatedly experienced that valuable development incentives could be provided through fine, clear and strengthening feedback. In addition, the candidates* were able to strengthen themselves and continue their process with many suggestions. In addition, we want to make the certification process more tangible as a community process in which the candidates support each other in their growth process by working independently in groups.

More information: https://gfk-trainer-werden.de/assessorinnen-teams/team-nord-ost/

Assessor Team Espana:
Marianne Sikor with support of Amalasiri Murcia and Gerardo Sánchez (Assessors in training)

Since 2015 I´m serving as assessor and coordinator for Spain to enable certification in Spanish. My vision is to build up a Spanish assessor team. In the process I´m cooperating with Sylvie Hörning, other assessors and regional and international  certified trainers. We are holding yearly pre-assessment events and mentoring and assessment days.

For more information please visit http://www.marianne-sikor.de/zertifizierung-gewaltfreie-kommunikation/certificacion-como-entrenador-certificad-de-ccnv/ .

Assessor Team LATAM:
Angela Walkley, Sylvie Hörning, Marianne Sikor with community building support of Kathleem MacFerran

Since 2019 we are evolving and cocreating possibilities of certification for candidates in Latin America in Spanish. We have been starting in Mexico, holding the first mexican mentoring and assessment event in October 2019. We are cooperating with Spanish-speaking Certified Trainers who serve as mentors for the candidates to enable a closer accompaniment. We are also inviting regional certified trainers to support the mentoring and assessment events, in 2019 Fabiola Fuentes has been part of the team during these days. Our vision is to build up thriving assessor and candidate communities in the Latinamerican countries.

I see myself as a sounding board and catalyst in supporting individuals to self-reflect and gain clarity and growth through this, as I believe in external inspiration triggering overcoming personal limitations in core believes, which is liberating.

More than twenty years in technical projects made me deeply realise, that no project ever failed or will fail out of technology reasons but always because how people deal with each other, how they behave under pressure.

Having done investigations and research for over 15 years, I found in NVC an approach how to honestly and fearlessly staying connected under pressure, being able to establish sustainable solutions that serve all involved parties – way beyond compromise.

Afters years of studies and respective degrees in adult education, training design and delivery, psychology, neuroscience and coaching, I am a full-time trainer, facilitator and coach since 2012. I work with individuals, teams and organisations in settings of one-to-one to one-to-hundreds, mainly across Europe.

All my trainings are about so called “soft skills” to unleash locked potentials.

All we experience as “being stuck” can be unblocked from within ourselves. No matter if it is in the business or private context. All this by targeting radical self-enablement and fostering relationship at the same time.

It is all about experience and reflection, allowing time to try again, experience once more and recognise differences through reflection and feedback etc.

Small and with confidence doable steps provide a positive experience where out subconscious mind is primed with this new habit and experience, unconscious blockages starting to fade away.

For this, I am applying the “holistic, integrative process approach”:

• taking into account and concideration the whole human with and in her contexts,

• finding the crack in the circle to become round and complete again,

• the client is following her own and unique process which I do support, coach but never determine.

Marcelle Bélanger is Francophone and has always lived in Quebec (Canada). She is a trainer, mediator, facilitator and professional coach. Her life experience as a professional athlete (trapeze) and as a therapist, as a coach in accompanying personal growth taught her the utmost importance of presence and kindness in the action. She has developed a keen interest in the role of intention in the role of intention in the development of human consciousness. She has been practicing NVC since 2001 and has been a certified trainer since 2004. She shares the approach in various NVC full-time programs both in Quebec and Europe. She acts as a trainer and speaker in many public and private organizations. Holding a degree in Special Care Counseling, she is a mediator and trainer in conflict management and Nonviolent Communication for Groupe Conscientia inc. as well as at Université Laval’s Continuing Education where her services are requested for sessions in Conflict Management and Nonviolent Communication. She is co-founder of Groupe Conscientia inc. Marcelle is a marathon runner.

We have known each other for several years. We all learned from Beate Ronnefeldt, among others. Also, we had met at various occasions, for example at the yearly held trainer-meetings in Munich and Niederkaufungen.
In our work, we are connected in particular by our process-oriented approach, focusing on what matters for the participants and on group processes.

From the beginning we cared for fostering a process to certification which gives priority to the process of personal development and growth, enabled by the certification path we three experienced as a huge enrichment.

Therefore we took time during our first year as assessors to concretize this process with the support of other trainers and to describe it (more information at: (https://gfk-trainer-werden.de/assessorinnen-teams/team-nord-ost/).
We are thrilled by the concept of group assessments and are in the act of developing it further by integrating other NVC trainers, for example, trainers mentoring our candidates. We offer mentoring- and assessment days bi-annual to complete group assessments or to give our candidates the opportunity to experience us, other candidates and the procedure of a group assessment, and to get feedback and stimulation.

In our accompaniment for our candidates the mentoring by other NVC trainers or by ourselves plays an important role. For that, we are working together with some other German-speaking trainers. By this, we try to realize our vision of a rich NVC trainer network. Moreover, to foster an enriching culture of learning, of giving and receiving feedback and of networking, we encourage our candidates to build groups with other NVC persons to inter-vision and accompany each other.

I act as an assessor in training with Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia team.

Sylvia Haskvitz lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA and has been a certified trainer since 1989 and one of the original 20 certified trainers. She completed her masters degree in Speech and Communication studies with a focus on interpersonal and intercultural communication. As a communication consultant, coach and trainer, she has brought NVC consciousness to workplaces across the US, coached couples, families and individuals and has worked on many diverse projects including co-facilitating a 9 day NVC training in Israel/Palestine in 2011. She began the first year course in Nonviolent Communication in 1998, recognizing the need for regular practice in community. She co-created the group Compassionate Communication for the Jewish Soul as a way to support healing in the Jewish community. She was the co-founder of CALF (Candidates/Community Active Learning Forum) - an online and in person learning community for NVC practitioners and CNVC Certification Candidates. As a nutritionist, she wrote Eat by Choice, Not by Habit, an NVC application to our relationship with food and our bodies. It is because of her deep desire to support the integrity of the NVC process and its sustainability that she has taken on this role of assessor. Her website is nvccalf.com and nvcarizona.org.

My main focus is NVC with parents, teachers and everybody living and working with children. I am an NVC trainer since 2005, an assessor for the CNVC certification process, mediator and coach. i am co-founding member of the German-speaking network, D-A-CH, and member of the Munich network. I developed the “Giraffentraum” programme with Gundi, my wife, which introduces NVC in kindergartens and schools. This programme runs now in countries all over the world. In addition, I have experiences of NVC family camps in Germany, Austria and the USA. my passion is to experience NVC off the beaten track -away from the limitations of words and languages. I focuse on intuition, empathic presence, body language and theater technics. I love to play and enjoy miracles. I live with my family near Munich, Germany.

I first heard about NVC in the summer of 2003. By the end of February 2004 I had spent 10 days with Marshall at the top of a mountain in Switzerland and I determined in myself to be like one of those NVC Trainers he was working with. I loved the ease of connection between them all, the fun and the depth- a delicious combination for me. I immediately found the NVC community in the UK and spent as much time as possible learning with them and other trainers around Europe and also the US. I became a Certified Trainer in 2006 and have since that time have shared NVC both publicly and within my role as an Educational Psychologist. I moved into working with the English Speaking European Assessor Team in the summer of 2015 and found a space to learn, live and share NVC with integrity and in collaboration. I love to support people to grow and develop their skills as practitioners, trainers and human beings doing their best.

The English Speaking European Assessor Team- ESEAT, work to build community at our assessment events and we use our website to share how we do this www.nvcassessment.eu. The assessor team consists of Towe Widstrand, Gina Lawrie, Shona Cameron, Thera Balvers  and Ania Mills. We also work with Assessors in Training

Stephanie Bachmann Mattei is a certified trainer and assessor with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an advanced teacher with the Right Use of PowerTM Institute, and a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher with the Center for Mindfulness at the University of California, San Diego. She holds a research degree in philosophy from the Universita’ Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. 

Stephanie travels the globe to share her understanding of Nonviolent Communication . She weaves mindfulness into all her teachings, and also offers Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses as a path to cultivate the natural human capacity for compassionate presence. Stephanie’s organizational trainings in Right Use of PowerTM raise awareness of the power dynamics intrinsic in all relationships and share a heartfelt approach to power.

Stephanie is the mother of three children, biological and adopted. She loves to stroll on Florida beaches, travel back home to Italy with her family, cook Italian meals with her husband, and pet her cats. 

To learn more about Stephanie, please visit

www.stephaniebachmannmattei.com

Anna Mills has been incorporating NVC into her work life since it was first introduced into Poland, with her help, 2001. She has studied with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg and with international trainers in Sweden, Hungary, Poland, and the United States. A trainer since 2003, she became a CNVC Certified Trainer in 2008. She also works as MBRS mindfulness teacher introducing participants to meditation practice.

For over 20 years, Valerie Lanctot-Bedard has been passionate about interpersonal communication, as it relates to individual paths of self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-responsibility and self-care. It was through her experience as an alternative health care practitioner that she discovered her awe for and faith in the human spirit and her ever-growing curiosity about the ways we relate to one another in different contexts. Co-founder of Spiralis consultants, she offers NVC and NVC-related trainings in public sessions and yearlong programs, as well as in-house trainings for various teams and organizations, according to a wide range of concerns and aspirations – from facing angry customers to creating cultures of learning through feedback and proactive conflict transformation. She also works with families and couples, supporting them in reaching better mutual understanding, renewing their relationships in truth and trust. She offers conflict transformation coaching and mediation services. She continuously explores new ways of bringing more awareness and truth to human encounters, fostering environments where these are possible, become desirable and even more and more exciting! Valerie was certified by the CNVC in 2007and trained as an assessor in 2010; she has a master’s degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution; she is a student of the Diamond Approach. Her website is spiralis.ca

Hello my name is Sylvie Hörning. After having grown up in Mexico and Switzerland I studied law in Zurich. Thereafter we moved to the US, Brazil and back to Switzerland. Learning new languages and communicating with people has always fascinated me. 
When I first met Marshall Rosenberg in 2006 I was equally fascinated by his approach to communication from heart to heart, where empathy for the other AND for myself is a key element. I had heard of offering empathy to others, but the concept of offering it to myself was NEW and EXCITING. 

Since then I have become a certified trainer and an assessor with the Center for NonViolent Communication and offer workshops, seminars for groups and individuals. And I enjoy very much accompanying candidates on their path towards  living, integrating and sharing NVC AND learning together and from each other.

 

Angela Walkley accompanies people in North, Central and South America. She is passionate about increasing inclusion and access to people in South and Central America: “I commit to maintaining 50% of my Trainer Candidate list for people from Latin America and strive to include people from under-represented communities.” 

Angela has been a facilitator, mediator and activist for over 20 years and brought NVC into her work in 2004. 

She has led community-based processes and projects in India, Latin America and Canada’s far North, with a focus on bringing voices of under-served communities (such as Canada’s Indigenous communities and Ecuador’s marginalized communities) to the foreground. 

These projects included the development of national, provincial and municipal legislation/policies and practical projects in leadership development, capacity building, indigeneous self governance and community-based planning and management.

Angela’s journey with NVC has also been deeply personal. At a pivotal points of  crisis, NVC has continued to provide a way through to connection and hope.

She approaches her role as Assessor with a deep sense of humility with this work of being human and turning again and again to self empathy. She is guided by the words of mentor and colleague Penny Wassman: ‘How can I reach out to others if I am unwilling to reach into myself, unwilling to honour and experience this place of inner knowing?” 

Angela takes a community-based approach to assessment and draws people in who have a passion for working together to make an impact in the lives of individuals and to our collective existence.

Hi, I'm so glad seeing you among the NVC-passionates. 

I'm currently taking candidates for South-East Asia (team with Sabine Geiger, Christlin Rajendram, Jim Manske, Sudha Shankar, and Ramanusha Poopalaratnam), as well as in Poland -  where I am teamed up with Marta Kułaga and supported by Sabine Geiger and Kathleen Macferran. 

If you would like to explore the possibility to be a CT candidate with me, please write me [email protected] or text me +48667667050.  

I've been on NVC path since 2008, certified in 2014 and an assessor since 2022. 

More about me:

NVC has transformed the way I live and relate to people and to the world at large (including the natural world). Sharing this approach to support the consciousness shift in the times we live in, is part of my deep inner purpose.

Thus, I like to support people who are also committed to this path, and want to share NVC as certified trainers, in deepening their practice and understanding of the approach. I believe that my understanding of the essence of NVC, and the elements of the process (including the Why behind them) is of value.

I also believe that a certified trainer needs to live NVC consciousness and how they share NVC is therefore a manifestation of who they are. I am excited when I see people shining in their power and I feel honored when I can support them in getting more aligned with their essence. Therefore, I’m aiming at creating a partnership with the candidates around our shared values and engaging together in exploration of how they can bring out their best more fully. This includes shared exploration of the power-with principle and working around inner and outer obstacles to connect and learn first and foremost as human beings (as opposed to assigned roles). While we use the CPP as the foundation of this exploration, I am also asking the candidates to inquire into their skills and capacities based on the matrix and seek feedback based on what they or we see as an area to grow into. Other areas I invite my candidates to reflect on include:

• NVC as a strategy and NVC as a pathway
• being nice and being real, particularly in the context of relating to unpleasant feelings
• awareness of trauma (being trauma-informed) and neurobiology of emotional responses, and its relationship to NVC
• power - from personal to structural - awareness of different dimensions, reflection and personal relationship to it, exploration of power-with in contexts relevant to the candidate

I want to continue exploring how to offer the certification process in a way that is integral with NVC, in particular with “power-with” principle. I am fascinated by the interplay of the personal, the interpersonal and the systemic, the understanding I want to deepen and bring into this role as well.

My journey

I discovered NVC in 2007 and I took a deep dive into it from the start, exploring and learning from many international trainers. 

I got certified in 2014, together with six other trainers and we have collaborated since, creating a foundation for the Polish NVC community, which has grown to around 30 CTs (and innumerable practitioners) since. 

I have been a trainer at IITs in Sri Lanka (2017), Los Angeles (2019), Sweden (2019), and India (2020). After the Los Angeles IIT, I was invited by Sabine Geiger to join the assessors’ team in India and South-East Asia, which I gladly said yes to. 

Meanwhile, I have also collaborated with Sabine in assessment processes in Europe. 

I have contributed to the international assessors’ community, e.g., I was part of the team bringing the  “Sex and Intimacy in NVC Trainings” document through the feedback and decision making process to be a working guideline for everyone, working as a member of the Assessors’ Task Force (2021-2022) and serving in ACC (Assessors’ Coordination Circle) since 2022. Being a member of the ACC I am looking at ways to contribute to integrity, clarity and transparency of our work as assessors.

At the end of the last year, candidates from Poland started to knock at my door, many of them from a community gathered around Marta Kułaga – a certified trainer from Kraków/Poland, where she has been supporting candidates for over 6 years with her “growing together” programme. Marta and I have been collaborating for years, around yearly NVC programmes for beginners and more experienced practitioners. This year, Marta invited me to create a community-based assessment process in Poland, inspired by the TCCP process, as well as the process-based approach to assessment which I have been exploring as an AinT with Sabine – read more our last MAD below. It is very exciting for me to serve our growing NVC community in Poland like this. It widens the choice for potential candidates, as an additional option to the current pathway to assessment offered by the ESEAT team.

I also continue to support the communities from India/South-East Asia. I wish for Global South to have more local trainers who could work effectively in their cultural and social context.

I’m celebrating my new role as an Assessor for CNVC.  I’m excited about this opportunity to contribute to CNVC’s mission to spread NVC on the planet and accompany and support certification candidates on their journey and continue my own learning and growth at the same time.  

I started and now collaborate with its candidates to have co-created the SoCal Certification Pod.  It continues to evolve as we learn from each other in community with feedback.  More info.

Please contact me, if you're interested in working together or have questions.  You can schedule a call using my online calendar.

Kathleen supports assessors and assessment communities, but no longer works directly with individual candidates. She works with the Trainer Candidate Community Path (TCCP). In conjunction with the CNVC certification process, the TCCP program is for CNVC trainer candidates who would like to walk the certification path guided by and co-created with community. Kathleen is part of the assessment team with Roxy Manning (assessor) and Mika Maniwa, Marcia Christen and Jennifer Warnick (assessors in training).

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Thera Balvers is a certified trainer and assessor with CNVC. She is also member of the English speaking European Assessor Team (E-SEAT. Thera has her own practice and training organisation as a Psychotherapist, NVC trainer, Mediator, Coach, Hypnotherapist, Simontontherapist (cancer treatment) and Master in Flower Art. Thera has a lot of knowledge and experience in personal growth and development. She has more than 30 years of experience in giving trainings in various subjects and target groups (organizations, welfare sector, medical sector) Humour is important in her life and she likes to balance between depth and lightness in her work. The experiences and wisdom from the collegue assessors is a great source of inspiration and growth for her. In turn she loves to inspire and support people on their path towards sharing NVC in the world. The European assessor team consists of Towe Widstrand, Gina Lawrie, Shona Cameron, Thera Balvers and Dionne Verbeet with 3 assessors in Training: Ola Golaszewska, Matthew Rich and Ian Peatey. The priority for Thera, in her role as an assessor, will be focused to support candidates from the Dutch speaking community. More information on www.therabalvers.nl

Gina Lawrie is based in Dorset, UK and has been a certified trainer with CNVC since 1997, integrating NVC into her practice as an independent consultant, trainer, and coach in the field of personal and organizational development. Gina has traveled extensively with her NVC work and introduced the process in Australia, New Zealand where she has just handed over the assessor role to Cate Crombie. Gina is well known in the NVC community for her co-creation of the NVC Dance Floors and as an associate trainer with the NVC Training Institute.

Gina has been as assessor since 2004 and loves the challenge of assessment in the partnership paradigm as part of The English Speaking European Assessor Team- ESEAT. We work to build community at our final assessment events and we use our website to share how we do this www.nvcassessment.eu. The assessor team consists of Towe Widstrand, Gina Lawrie, Shona Cameron, Ania Mills, Thera Balvers and Dionne Verbeet with 3 assessors in Training: Ola Golaszewska, Matthew Rich and Ian Peatey.

I have been practicing and learning Nonviolence and healing in different forms for over 30 years. I have had a private practice incorporating different healing modalities for 15 years. I have specialized in sharing Nonviolent Communication, as my profession, sharing NVC in prisons, faith communities, non profits, 17-day programs she offers with others to incorporate NVC practices and principles into their lives.

I have co-led and co-created over 70 such programs of 1-3 year length, some with themes such as NVC and Social Change, NVC and leadership, NVC for families, etc. I have been training and certifying Focusing teachers also, and combines NVC and Focusing in these certification programs, in english and in french all over North America. Nature reconnection is a huge part of my work, and all of my work is in nature, helping people to re Connect with their WHOLE SELVES, I am a facilitator of Joanna Macy's WORK THAT RECONNECTS, and my school teaches movement practices and art and music as a way of Life.

I have specialized in healing trauma and am part of the Group that is called Indigenous Focusing oriented therapy for Complex trauma in Canada. I work every day in healing trauma and bringing myself and others back to life, from the Industrialized growth Society. Gina speaks French and English. Learn more about Gina.

I Deborah retired as from June 2022 as an Assessor after being on the assessor path for 10 years. I am grateful to have contributed to this role by supporting candidates on their certification journey in various countries in Europe. Poland, Romania, Spain Austria, Germany, Lithuania, and Slovenia. 

I am grateful to the teams I have worked in who have contributed to my learning and growing as an assessor and as a human being living the NVC consciousness to the best of my ability. 

After 19 years as a certified trainer for CNVC I still passionately contribute to the Vision.

Based in Austria where I founded the network Gewaltfreie Kommunikation Austria in 2003 I will focus again on my community locally after traveling around Europe for the last 10 years.

Right now what I enjoy most is meeting live my participants. I feel more alive connected and playful than online. So I pray it stays that way.

May I still be of support to making life more wonderful in challenging times with lightness, humor, and depth?

She is not taking on new candidates as of 2019

SUSANNA WARREN is a Certified Trainer an Assessor with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, and the Director and Lead Trainer for the Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio (CCCO). She has a B.A. in Organizational Communication and a minor in Organizational Leadership Development and Executive Coaching. Susanna has traveled the globe teaching Compassionate Communication, sharing the work in Vietnam, Bali, Greece, Turkey, Uganda, and Ghana. She provides coaching and training for individuals, families, groups, and organizations throughout Ohio and beyond.

She is deeply committed to living Compassionate Nonviolent Communications and experiences the moment-by-moment transformational qualities of this work with her two adult children, daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, and life partner.  She enjoys ballroom dancing, playing her guitar, traveling, and spending time in nature.

A Personal message from Susanna

Hi, Im Susanna Warren and live in Columbus, Ohio.  Although I have traveled many roads of spiritual discovery over the years, it was not until I met Marshall Rosenberg and NVC in 2006 that I discovered a depth of consciousness, a language, and practice that provided me with a clear road map on how to find my way back home to my heart and to the essence of myself.    From that point forward, learning, living and embodying NVC became the single most important focus of my spiritual practice and my calling to life.  I began to attend all trainings available to me and immersed myself in my local community of NVC students, practitioners, and trainers that have become my beloved friends and family over the past seven years.    I hold a degree in Organizational Communication. This allows to me integrate the communication practices of the business world with the philosophies of NVC.  The skills that I've cultivated give me a cutting-edge advantage to communicate effectively and negotiate complex communications within the business arena. This has enhanced my ability to grow and sustain two businesses that I previously owned and managed for the past 23 years.   I learned to harness and focus these skills in a way that has allowed to me to train and groom others in partnership with me, and to free up my time to pursue NVC as a certified trainer as my main calling and focus in life.

The Spirituality of NVC    In addition to my studies of NVC, the key cornerstone of my essence is grounded in the spirituality of presence, meditation, and the oneness and goodness of all. By developing and sharing my own deep spiritual practice, I have discovered the divine life energy that is the thread that connects us at a heart level.  The spirituality of NVC is the consciousness of needs and understanding what deeply matters to others and me. The essence of my needs is divine or life energy expressing itself through me; my practice is bringing presence to this divine life energy.  NVC shows me the pathway of how I can manifest these qualities of being and gives me a road map to be able to bring these qualities into relationships with others.     Needs are the doorway to spirit or the doorway to being, and when I have awareness of my needs, my spirituality becomes more embodied, powerful, and effective. Empathy is the ultimate act of compassion, which is the ability to understand my own and another inner world of motivations and needs.     NVC illumines my consciousness by transforming habitual life-alienating reactions into conscious responses.  It also empowers me to create a world in which I want to live, a world where separation is transformed into connection, a world where scarcity is replaced with trusting lifes infinite resources, and a world where everyone's well being is held with care and mutuality. Ways I share NVC and contribute to Social Change    I am involved in a very strong NVC community and I am the Director and Lead Trainer of our local non-profit Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio.  Sharing NVC while traveling in places such as Bali, Vietnam, Italy, Greece, India, Uganda, and Ghana has blended my love and passion for travel and contributing to the greater global community.  I welcome and cherish all opportunities to share and contribute to the creation of a global NVC community.   I  facilitate Introductions, classes, and local public trainings in partnership with the Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio. • I share NVC in organizations through programs that create systemic change in businesses and personal lives. • I am working with local organizations that offer services to lower-income areas to reduce crime and violence.  I see NVC making a difference in areas where there is a disproportionately negative impact on racial and ethnic minorities particularly those in poverty where violence is a common occurrence.

As an Assessor on the Trainer Candidate Community Path team of the Center for Nonviolent Communication’s (CVNC) Educational Services group, I collaborate with other experienced assessors as I work to support people from the Global Majority* who wish to develop the experience and integration of NVC consciousness that will enable them to bring the power of NVC to the communities they serve.

I bring decades of service experience to my work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms within individuals, communities, and organizations. Rooted in my experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant to the United States, my passion for cultivating resilience and equity comes from seeing how differently different communities were resourced. The diversity of perspectives and experience I hold, along with a commitment to compassion and fierce authenticity, generates profound insights for transformative change grounded in the consciousness of nonviolence.  You can learn more about me on my website.

I currently accept candidates in cohorts who will work and learn together throughout the assessment journey. Our current cohort is full and we're unlikely to have openings in the near future.  Other assessors on the team to which I belong, The Trainer Candidate Community Path, may have openings.  I am currently working only with candidates who identify as being of the Global Majority* / BIPOC as part of my passion for helping create the conditions for folks from those communities to integrate, learn, and share NVC in ways that will lead to a world where everyone's needs truly matter and are held equitably.  

* “Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called to think of themselves as belonging to the global majority. It refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. Globally, these groups currently represent approximately eighty per cent (80%) of the world’s population making them the global majority now, and with current growth rates, notwithstanding Covid-19 and its emerging variants, the global majority is set to remain so for the foreseeable future.”
– Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE
Global Majority 2020

Based in China with a global mind (20+ years of intercultural experience in Europe, Asia and West Africa) and 15+ years professional experience in people development and communication, Liu Yi works as entrepreneur, facilitator, trainer, coach with the vision to catalyze paradigm shift with practical approaches at levels of individuals, communities and system.

Her focuses are interdisciplinary and intergrated including Nonviolent Communication, Transformation & Biography Coaching, intercultural communication, diversity & inclusion, purposeful entrepreneurship & leadership.
Liu Yi is the first Certified CNVC Trainer in China (Mainland) (2018), Assessor- in-Training (2022), and founder of the NVC Chinese Net (since 2018). She is also the Mandarin translator of Marshall’s book Language of Life, NVC.
Her practices and approaches are enriched by both Eastern and Western spiritual paths of Buddhism, Taoism and Anthroposophy.
She is Alumna and fellow of several internationally renowned leadership programs including Sino-German Young Professional Leadership Campus “Zukunftsbruecke” / International Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD).