Certified Trainers at the Center for Nonviolent Communication

Exploring my internal world, and the external motivates the journey of my life, and I seek ways to live with integrity and harmony. Alongside other beautiful practices that I have embraced, like yoga and ayurveda, NVC enables me to uncover my inner-self further, and to foster more meaningful connections with people around. My journey with NVC began 4 years ago with reading the book, and I could feel its transformative energy. The 9-Day IIT I attended was a heart-opening experience, with absolutely brilliant trainers (some listed above on this page!). Bringing elements of NVC into my everyday life helps me in understanding needs of self and others better, in both personal and professional situations. I hope more and more people find access to such knowledge, and benefit from it. To be a part of the organizing team for this IIT is a small way in which I can contribute to the community, and this makes me happy.

Jane has been practicing NVC for the past 15 years. She immersed herself in the teachings during several week-end sessions and a two-year program taught by Gina Cenciose. She organized several NVC intros for the Transition Town group she coordinated in her neighbourhood in Montreal. Jane is a retired environmental expert who consulted to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for over 20 years. She is passionate about living NVC, especially with her two youngest grandchildren. She also has a consistent practice in non-dual meditation. Her organizations skills were honed while coordinating grass-roots community groups. She looks forward to helping Tosha in the role of co-Coordinator to make the 2025 Canada IIT run smoothly on the material and spiritual planes! Jane speaks English and French fluently.

Dawn Deguire is a First Nations and Métis consultant, speaker, facilitator, and wellness practitioner whose work centers on healing, reconciliation, communication, and relational transformation. Rooted in her own journey of reclaiming culture and healing the intergenerational effects of colonization, Dawn brings a grounded and compassionate approach to supporting individuals, communities, and organizations.

Guided by a needs-based understanding of humanity, she integrates Indigenous perspectives, Nonviolent Communication, trauma awareness, and embodied practices into her work. Her offerings include reconciliation and Indigenous engagement consulting, facilitation, public speaking, leadership development, and wellness-based learning experiences.

With educational backgrounds in public relations and psychology, and professional experience in communication, Indigenous engagement, and organizational development, Dawn bridges systems change with personal and collective healing. She is a certified coach, 500-hour yoga teacher, Reiki Master, co-founder of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Yoga Association, and is a CNVC certification candidate.

Tosha has been a massage therapist since 1990.  He had practices in Los Angeles, California and, beginning in 1993, Sedona, Arizona.   In 1995, Tosha was trained as a Mediator by the Arizona Attorney General’s office and provided mediation services for Coconino County Superior Courts, Yavapai County Juvenile Courts and the US Postal Service.  In 1996 he was introduced to NVC (NonViolent Communication) and began incorporating NVC consciousness into his mediation work, his healing work and his personal life. ​

Tosha has offered Intros, Workshops and Practice Groups in NonViolent Communication.  In 2003 he began organizing the Sedona, Arizona NVC Community, bringing in trainers, working with fellow volunteers, offering monthly Coffee and Connections, seeking and obtaining donations and loans to establish a local NVC bookstore and lending library and making book and video donations to local public libraries.  He has worked as volunteer staff at the Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication, assisted and presented at International Intensive Trainings (IIT's offered by the International Center for Nonviolent Communication [CNVC]),  been active in a number of advanced trainings  and was a presenter at the Conference on Nonviolence held in Eugene Oregon during the Summer of 2008.

In 2009, Tosha began participating in Gina Cenciose’s programs in Canada and stayed around to support and assist her in her work.  As her partner and husband since 2010, he is active in all the work she does and has learned immensely from her.

Tosha has provided mediation services in local Arizona communities and for the US Postal Service and is a trained supporter for the local Restorative Justice Program in the Verde Valley of Arizona (SORJ). 

Tosha has been a massage therapist for the past 30 years and has worked with myofascial release, core belief systems, Course in Miracles, Applied Kinesiology and other integrative principles and practices.

Manager of educational department of the Korean Center for Nonviolent Communication for the last 12 years and has experience of organizing 3 International Intensive Trainings.

Val has called Bali home for the past 20 years and brings deep local experience to her role as organizer of the Bali IIT 2023, having also participated in two previous Bali IITs. Born in France and raised in the U.S., she holds a Bachelor of Science and a Juris Doctor degree. Her diverse background includes entrepreneurship across multiple industries, parenting, and dedicated service as a volunteer and board member in schools, businesses, and NGOs. Val is passionate about Bali, the Balinese people, and nurturing authentic human connection. She is committed to making NVC accessible to all Indonesians, supporting local empowerment, and contributing to help build a more compassionate and joyful society.

I'm currently working as a project manager at Officience which has provided me invaluable insights into team dynamics, particularly during the organizational changes and challenges of the past three years, including the Covid-19 pandemic. This period intensified my focus on effective communication, conflict resolution, and creating supportive environments.  My exploration of empathic listening and facilitated discussion techniques, was driven by a desire to foster genuine connection and understanding within teams. 

Vesna holds a Master's degree in Political Science and has been studying and working in the field of conflict resolution and mediation for the past ten years. Her work is grounded in the model of Nonviolent Communication, which she applies in resolving conflicts in interpersonal and partner relationships.

NVC offered her a practical way to connect compassionately and honestly with herself and others, and to develop a way of communicating that brings compassion into everyday life. Since 2016, she has trained with many international NVC trainers and is currently enrolled in the trainer certification process. She leads practice groups and facilitates Introduction, Foundation, and Deepening trainings and workshops internationally, both for the public and within organisations and companies.

More information: www.empathiya.com

Trampolina Foundation

Trampolina Foundation is a non-profit organisation that focuses on finding funds for social change projects based on NVC.

Projects concentrate on dialogue across differences in public space, working in prisons, nonviolent leadership, conflict facilitation, supporting organisations regarding inclusion and psychological safety.

Up to 2023 it supported 29 people to participating in IITs and disseminating the skills and knowledge.

We believe that thanks to skills and awareness we can overcome challenges and  create peace caring for dignity and the needs of all

Learn more about Trampolina Foundation.

I discovered NVC in 2015, when I attended several training sessions. Since that same year, I am delving deeper into the concept of Nonviolence through the practice of Aikido. 

I have been a committed researcher in the field of movement since my youth, I began from the perspective of contemporary dance, later moving through numerous approaches and methods. I have focused since 2018 on the comprehensive study of the mind-body through the practice of embodiment, martial arts, experiential anatomy, and somatic studies. 

I am currently training as a Somatic and Movement Development Educator.

I have been practicing since 2014 offering training workshops and collaborating in the outreach campaigns of associations and educational projects.

I am part of the "Programa Anual de Convivencia y Formación de CNV" (Year-long-training) team in Barcelona (Spain), collaborating in the administration and promotion of the training.

Co-organizer of IIT Spain 2026.

Hey, welcome, I’m Sebastian,

Married, two adult kids and a cat.

Since 2018 my ever growing passion is to live and promote NVC wherever I am!

As a former airline pilot I am retired since 2016, and through NVC have gained a much deeper meaning and a real purpose in my life since then!

I do a lot of volunteer work, in a hospice, in a high school and with elderly people.

I am a certified Mediator on NVC basis, host practice groups in NVC-Mediation, Restorative Circles and NVC.

I give NVC workshops in schools, hospice and communities.

I answer the conflict-hotline of the federal association of German mediators.

I host an NVC practice group with inmates of a prison.

I am a board member of the ‚Network NVC Darmstadt-Südhessen e.V.‘ and co-founder of the ‚Network NVC Mainz-Wiesbaden‘.

I  feel a humble gratitude for this opportunity to contribute to the IIT in Sayda and look forward to this profound experience!