--- title: "Peggy Smith - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Peggy Smith" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/peggy-smith" date: "2026-09-18T06:25:55+00:00" language: "en-US" --- ![Peggy Smith portrait](https://www.cnvc.org/media/yootheme/cache/6d/Peggy-Smith-2-6d65bba8.png) # Peggy Smith # Certified Trainer since 2009 M.A. University of Pennsylvania Achieving Peaceful Sustainability Speaks English Current Country: United States Country of Origin: United States "Nonviolent Communication is the most powerful process I have experienced to help humanity move in the direction of peaceful sustainability." Peggy Smith has over four decades of teaching experience and is at the forefront of bringing empathic thinking and communicating to her region in the Northeastern U.S. She was a teacher in public and alternative schools for 32 years before devoting her full-time energies to this endeavor. She offers trainings in a wide variety of venues. She is happy to offer a free NVC curriculum called Courageous Communication. While the curriculum was developed with people coming out of incarceration, it will be useful for practice groups, self-study or introducing NVC to groups. Peggy is a co-founder of the [Maine NVC Network](http://www.opencommunication.org/) and led their educational newsletter team. These are archived . Each contains an NVC teaching article with practice. Peggy has done international NVC work through [Seeds of Peace International Camp](https://www.seedsofpeace.org/programs/developing-leaders/camp/), working with educators from the Middle East and South Asia both in Maine and in the region. A student of Mindfulness since 1991, Peggy was ordained as a teacher by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She has a passion for helping everyone develop their innate capacity for empathy by integrating mindfulness into how we think and communicate. During her 32 years as a teacher in elementary and middle schools, Peggy worked with a number of conflict resolution approaches. With Nonviolent Communication, she was excited by both its simplicity and its profound power to quickly help people re-connect to their compassionate inner-self. ### Related - [ **5-Day Foundation Training - United States (CT) 2026** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2026-10-30-ft-united-states-ct) - [ **Online Intensive 2025** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2025-10-17-iit-online) - [ **United States (CT) 2025** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2025-11-07-iit-united-states-ct) - [ **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) 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%2Fpeggy-smith "Share on Facebook") - [](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fpeggy-smith "Share on Whatsapp") - [](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fpeggy-smith&text= "Share on Twitter") - [](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fpeggy-smith "Share on Linkedin") - [](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fpeggy-smith "share on Pinterest") ### TRAINING FOCUS: - Business - Conflict Resolution - Counseling & Coaching - Education - Mind-Body-Spirit - Parenting & Family - Social Change [ Trainer's Website ](https://www.clarityservices.us/) Hear Peggy in her own words https://archives.weru.org/healthy-options/2022/11/healthy-options-11-2-22-non-violent-communication/ # Contact Peggy Smith 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.