--- title: "Robyn Marie Bors Veraart - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Robyn Veraart, Robyn Marie Bors Veraart" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/robyn-marie-bors-veraart" date: "2026-09-18T07:34:39+00:00" language: "en-US" --- ![Robyn Marie Bors Veraart portrait](https://www.cnvc.org/images/portraits/certified-trainers/Robyn-Veraart.jpeg) # Robyn Marie Bors Veraart # Certified Trainer since 2019 B.A. Music, Reed College | M.A. Transpersonal Counselling Psychology, Naropa University | M.A. Music Therapy, Naropa University | Certified Gestalt Therapist, Gestalt Institute of the Rockies | Certified Yoga Instructor, Diane Wilson Studios, Warm Data Host and Peasant Farmer Systems Healing Agent Speaks English, Dutch, French, Romanian Current Country: Romania Country of Origin: United States "I work with NVC to help myself and others ‘Re-Member and Heal the Past, Resonate with Present Needs, and Orient toward a more Resilient Future.’" **Robyn** currently lives with her family on a food-sovereign homestead based within a peasant village in rural Transylvania close to where one strain of her ancestors came from. Her current passion is in weaving together the community of local artists, upholders of traditional knowledge and agriculturalists. She also enjoys literal spinning and weaving - both wool and words. With her life partner, she began [Provision Transylvania](http://www.provisiontransylvania.com/), a village-based project with the mission: “Creating living and learning opportunities which contribute to health and wellbeing for planet and people.” From within this context of connection to natural cycles of life, reduced consumption, and growing and wildcrafting food as medicine, she shares Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with individuals and groups, both online and in person, on the grounds of Provision. Robyn’s mission for these sessions is to “Re-member and heal the past, resonate with present needs, and to orient toward a more resilient future.” Throughout her lifetime, Robyn has been practicing yoga and music. These led her to a B.A. in music from Reed College and double master’s degrees from Naropa University in the disciplines of Transpersonal Counselling Psychology and Music Therapy. She was also certified as a Gestalt therapist and as a yoga and meditation instructor. After several Zen Meditation retreats inside of prisons, she chose to accept employment as a counselor for a mental hospital housed within a women’s prison. Here she could share space and stories with many women of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Themes of intergenerational oppression, sexual trauma, drug addiction, and abuses of all kinds were omnipresent. This is where her political education began in earnest regarding the patriarchal domination systems that we live within. This was a great catalyst for the work that she now does to live system change in all ways possible, beginning from the ground of her own life within a human body, within a family system(s), within a local community of small-scale peasant farmers, and helping to support systems to return land from private ownership to common stewardship. Robyn works closely with a number of NGOs. With her life partner Lars, she is co-founder of [Provision Transylvania. ](https://provisiontransylvania.com) Since 2019, she has served as board member and currently as vice-president in [ACNV](https://www.cnvromania.ro), the Romanian NVC association. She also works closely with a number of local organizations including [ALPA](https://alpa.land) (Acces la Pamant pentru Agroecologie), an access-to-land network project designed to support sustainable agriculture and biodiversity. With NVC, Robyn has found several practices that have helped her to ground her experience of connecting with people over cultural divides, including designing ways to offer empathy to our Ancestors, inviting music to help us connect and heal, and remembering needs, including subsistence needs that may be met with a reverent orientation towards the more-than-human world. Lately she has become fascinated with the inter-relationships within complex systems, which led her to study Warm Data with Nora Bateson. In 2025, Robyn become a [Warm Data](https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/) Host. She also traveled to Northern India to Ladakh as a supported guest participant in the [Local Futures](https://www.localfutures.org) Summit. Inspired by teachers such as Nora Bateson, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norbert-Hodge, Satish Kumar, Ethan Hughes, Dominic Barter, Miki Kashtan, Sarah Peyton, Gayano Shaw, Lorna Richie, Carl Plesner, and many others, Robyn dreams of continuing to find ways to support and connect people from different lands, languages, movements, and ideologies in ways that are mutually life-enriching, and to contribute to building ever-more-inclusive human systems focused on Earth Democracy and the Planetary Satyagraha for Life. > “My purpose is to share NVC with people from all over the world toward healing the traumas that we are carrying so that we are able to orient toward, and feed ourselves into, our greater collective purpose of creating Earth Democracy. I have the sense that when we are stuck in trauma field habits and frequencies, we tend toward reaction patterns that are life-alienating and harmful to self, others, and the natural world we live in. At the same time, these energies and reactions help the forces of oppression we are all living within to grow stronger. I work to find ways to orient myself and others toward life, toward medicine, food, and words which are life-enriching and toward practices that lead us away from the grip of oppressive systems — even our own!” ### Related - [ **Romania 2024** (International Intensive Training) ](https://www.cnvc.org/learn/iit/2024-07-04-iit-romania) 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%2Frobyn-marie-bors-veraart "Share on Facebook") - [](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Frobyn-marie-bors-veraart "Share on Whatsapp") - [](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Frobyn-marie-bors-veraart&text= "Share on Twitter") - [](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Frobyn-marie-bors-veraart "Share on Linkedin") - [](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Frobyn-marie-bors-veraart "share on Pinterest") ### TRAINING FOCUS: - Conflict Resolution - Counseling & Coaching - Education - Mind-Body-Spirit - Parenting & Family - Social Change [ Trainer's Website ](https://provisiontransylvania.com/what-we-do/nonviolent-communication/) “Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.” – Marshall Rosenberg [ LINKEDIN PROFILE ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-veraart-3137ba270/) “I enjoy sharing NVC online or in person on the grounds of Provision Transylvania, a village-based, food-sovereign family homestead in rural Transylvania where I live with my family.” # Contact Robyn Marie Bors Veraart 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.