--- title: "Thomas Stelling - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Thomas Stelling" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/thomas-stelling" date: "2026-09-18T06:25:40+00:00" language: "en-US" --- ![Thomas Stelling portrait](https://www.cnvc.org/images/portraits/certified-trainers/Thomas-Stelling.jpeg) # Thomas Stelling # Certified Trainer since 2014 ‘Lead Facilitator of Collective Trauma Integration Processes’ (by pocketproject.org) Trainer, Coach, Mediator Speaks English, German Current Country: Germany Country of Origin: Germany Born in 1967 in the North of Germany with a long lineage of ancestors from that region. Having a working class background I have been interested already in social from early on. But neither studying social sciences, history, international relations or the activism of non-governmental organizations nurtured my longing - only NVC eventually did. 2004 I encountered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and met Marshall Rosenberg in Switzerland. Since then, I learned especially from Beate Ronnefeldt, Markus Sikor, Kelly Bryson, Monika Flörchinger, Laurence Reichler, and many others. Since 2009 I run year-long NVC programs around Lake Constance. I love supporting people for some years in their personal (and sometimes also professional) development, offering also "Facilitation & Training", "Empathic Coaching," "NVC Mediation," and "NVC Leadership." Apart from trainings, I facilitate, I coach and mediate — and support social organizations in team development or organizational development. I have been trained in NARM (Therapy of Developmental Trauma) a couple of years with Laurence Heller and have studied with Thomas Hübl (Transparent Communication & Integration of Collective Trauma) since 2008 (TWT1, Pocket Project, CTFT). 2025 I became a ‘Lead Facilitator of Collective Trauma Integration Processes’. I have the last years done research and lecturing on the "Roots of NVC" ("Wurzeln der Gewaltfreie Kommunikation" in German). I continually publish [the lectures as podcast](https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/wurzelndergfk/) and plan to write a book about it in 2026. By the way, these are the one's I looked at (with year of birth): - 1869 Mahatma Gandhi - 1878 Martin Buber - 1900 Erich Fromm - 1902 Carl Rogers - 1905 Viktor Frankl - 1905 Dag Hammarskjöld - 1906 Hannah Arendt - 1908 Abraham Maslow - 1921 Paulo Freire - 1928 Gene Sharp - 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. - 1931 Riane Eisler - 1932 Manfred Max-Neef - 1933 Stanley Milgram - -----------1934 Marshall B. Rosenberg (as reference) - 1935 Walter Wink - 1957 Alfie Kohn 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%2Fthomas-stelling "Share on Facebook") - [](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fthomas-stelling "Share on Whatsapp") - [](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fthomas-stelling&text= "Share on Twitter") - [](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fthomas-stelling "Share on Linkedin") - [](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnvc.org%2Ftrainers%2Fthomas-stelling "share on Pinterest") ### TRAINING FOCUS: - Business - Conflict Resolution - Counseling & Coaching - Education - Facilitation - Health & Healing - Social Change [ Trainer's Website ](https://forum-augenhoehe.com) EN: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly / DE: Alles, was es wert ist, getan zu werden, ist es wert dürftig getan zu werden. Marshall B. Rosenberg [ LINKEDIN PROFILE ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tstelling/) # Contact Thomas Stelling 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.