--- title: "Kathleen Macferran - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Kathleen Macferran" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/kathleen-macferran" date: "2026-09-18T07:53:53+00:00" language: "en-US" --- ![Kathleen Macferran portrait](https://www.cnvc.org/images/portraits/certified-trainers/Kathleen-Macferran.jpeg) # Kathleen Macferran # Certified Trainer since 2003 Facilitator, author, the owner of Strength of Connection. MMus. Speaks English Current Country: United States Country of Origin: United States Kathleen Macferran is an author, facilitator, Certified Trainer and Assessor Emeritus for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and the owner of Strength of Connection. Kathleen holds a vision for a peaceful, just, and sustainable world. She is committed to co-creating a world where peace replaces violence, love replaces hate, equity replaces inequity, and all people live meaningful lives. She has worked as a Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2003, and as a CNVC Assessor for 13 years. For 20 years she served as a workshop facilitator for the Freedom Project of Seattle, WA, an organization that supports healing and restoration inside and outside prisons through Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, racial equity and anti-oppression. Kathleen travels internationally offering facilitation, system building, and conflict transformation using practical skills that lead to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities. She has worked with individuals, community groups, businesses, schools, colleges, faith-based communities, hospitals, families, prison inmates, and correctional and law enforcement employees. Prior to her work with nonviolence, Kathleen spent much of her life bringing harmony to communities through music, including two decades as a classical music conductor and leader of a nonprofit organization, and seven years as a public-school music teacher. Kathleen is the author of Calling In the Dawn: Shaping Our Future through Authentic Dialogue, and co-author with Jared Finkelstein of Choice: A Field Guide for Navigating the Polarization of Our World and Living Interdependently. She is the author of the children’s books How Giraffes Found Their Hearts and How Giraffes Got Their Ears, and conductor for Giraffe Tales a children’s CD setting those stories to music. Kathleen is the conductor on multiple Rainier Chamber Winds classical music recordings. Her website is www.StrengthofConnection.com where her TEDx talks, books, and music can be found. ### Related - [ **A world of connection** (Trainer Event 01-22-2027) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/events/a-world-of-connection-2027-01-22-10-00-00) - [ **Viet Nam 2025** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2025-10-24-iit-viet-nam) - [ **Turkey 2023** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2023-10-06-iit-turkey) - [ **Reimagine What’s Possible Retreat** (Trainer Event 03-18-2027) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/events/reimagine-what-s-possible-retreat-2027-03-18-03-00-00) - [ **Calling In the Dawn** (Store Item) ](https://www.cnvc.org/store/calling-in-the-dawn) - [ **How Giraffes Got Their Ears** (Store Item) ](https://www.cnvc.org/store/how-giraffes-got-their-ears) - [ **How Giraffes Found Their Hearts** (Store Item) ](https://www.cnvc.org/store/how-giraffes-found-their-hearts) - [ **Choice** (Store Item) ](https://www.cnvc.org/store/choice) - [ **Embodying Nonviolent Communication** (Trainer Event 01-05-2027) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/events/embodying-nonviolent-communication-2027-01-05-16-00-00) - [ **Embodying Nonviolent Communication** (Trainer Event 02-04-2027) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/events/embodying-nonviolent-communication-2027-02-04-11-00-00) Share this page: - [](mailto:?body=Hi%20check%20out%20this%20trainer%21&subject=Check%20out%20this%20Certified%20Trainer%20with%20the%20Center%20for%20Nonviolent%20Communication%21) - [](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fkathleen-macferran "Share on Facebook") - [](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fkathleen-macferran "Share on Whatsapp") - [](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fkathleen-macferran&text= "Share on Twitter") - [](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fkathleen-macferran "Share on Linkedin") - [](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fkathleen-macferran "share on Pinterest") ### TRAINING FOCUS: - Business - Conflict Resolution - Education - Mind-Body-Spirit - Parenting & Family - Social Change [ Trainer's Website ](http://www.StrengthOfConnection.com) # Contact Kathleen Macferran First name \* Last name \* Email Address \* Country \* United States Your Message \* Turnstile \* ![](https://www.cnvc.org/templates/yootheme/assets/images/consent_placeholder_map.svg) ![](https://www.cnvc.org/templates/yootheme/assets/images/consent_icon_openstreetmap.svg)OpenStreetMap service required to load this map. ![](https://www.cnvc.org/templates/yootheme/assets/images/consent_icon_openstreetmap.svg)OpenStreetMap service required to load this map.