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François Beausoleil is passionate about contributing to the well-being of himself and others through teaching communication skills and promoting a respectful way of living interdependence. After a career as a professional musician, he is teaching, mentoring and consulting (in French and English) in organizations and communities in Canada, United States and Japan since 2004. François has been leading training sessions in the states of California, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Colorado, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Washington, North Carolina, as well as in the provinces of Quebec (Quebec City and Montreal) and British Columbia, and in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka). Apart from his mentoring work with individual clients, he is currently involved in several projects involving mentoring, consulting and trainings in United States and Canada. Some of his organizational clients are: * Volunteers of America's PACE program, providing Health Care support to elders (Colorado and California) * Quebec-Transplant (coordinating organ donations throughout the Province of Quebec in Canada) * BCNCC, whose mission is to support the growth of NVC education in British Columbia. * The Vachon Island NVC Family Camp, in Washington State. He is also in the process of getting certified as an executive coach and trainer for the New-York based company Optimum Associates


Ingrid Bauer (CNVC Certified Trainer) is a certified NVC trainer and a graduate of the BayNVC Leadership Program. Since 2007 she has been leading the BayNVC Parent Peer Leadership Program, part of the joint CNVC and BayNVC Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project. When Ingrid discovered NVC in 2000, she was thrilled to find a practice that supported her desire to live compassionately and grow world peace from the roots by addressing how we raise and interact with children, and how we practice peace in creating communities that nourish and care for each individual. A compassionate parenting advocate and author, Ingrid has four children and is committed to bringing compassion into daily life and to creating social change through sustainable human relationships. Ingrid offers workshops for schools, child-care educators, parent groups and home-schooling groups and other organizations, and also offers private counseling and parent coaching. Ingrid lives with her family on Saltspring Island on Canada's west coast.


Jared Finkelstein is a consultant and trainer who specializes in communication that transforms conflict into connection. Jared has over 20 years experience in alternative education. A former filmmaker and media educator, Jared taught Media Literacy to youth in Poughkeepsie, NY through the Children's Media Project, as well as through the Summer Institute for the Gifted, The Randolph School, and the Poughkeepsie Day School. In his years as an educator he has worked closely with children as young as 3 and as old as 21, facilitating hands on experiential learning projects, coupled with character education and community building. Jared is a graduate of the 2009 BayNVC Leadership Program and has been a teaching assistant for both the 2010 Immersion Program and the 2010 and 2011 Leadership Programs. As a Collaborative Trainer with BayNVC, Jared offers professional development training in NVC to Bay Area school teachers and administrators, as well as workshops for parent groups and student classrooms. Jared is also a certification candidate with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.


John Kinyon is a leading trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and a co-founder of BayNVC. He specializes in mediation and Nonviolent Communication as spiritual practice and has offered training and facilitation to thousands of people around the world, including conflict resolution training to Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in 2002. John works closely with founder Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., and is regularly invited to be a staff trainer with him at 9-day international intensive trainings. John has a background in clinical psychology and has started three businesses. He also incorporates a long study of spiritual practice and principles of nonviolence into his work, including study and practice of the work of Carl Rogers, Gandhi, Eckhart Tolle, Duane Elgin, Ken Wilber, David Whyte, Byron Katie, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Parmahansa Yogananda of Self-Realization Fellowship. John lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit him at www.johnkinyon.com and www.nvcmediation.com.


Katherine Simon, Ph.D., has been practicing NVC for more than 16 years and teaching it for 7 years. She has led the Living Peace retreat and the BayNVC Immersion Program in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and especially appreciates the chance to work with a small, warm community of dedicated practitioners. Along with the Immersion Program, Kathy also leads NVC trainings for organizations and works with individuals, parents and couples to integrate NVC into their personal lives. A former high school English and drama teacher, Kathy guided student teachers at Stanford University and co-directed the Coalition of Essential Schools, a nonprofit school reform organization. Kathy is the author of Moral Questions in the Classroom and co-author of other books on education and school reform. She lives in Oakland with her partner, Inbal Kashtan, co-founder of BayNVC, and their 13 year old son.


Lisa Montana came to mediation from the corporate world, where she witnessed frequent disputes, most of them handled in ways that nobody liked. In NVC, she found a model in which everybody's needs matter, and against all odds, has seen wildly antagonistic foes find common ground. Lisa has a reputation for clarity, humor and compassion, and her workshops offer participants the chance to strengthen their skills in a lively and supportive atmosphere. Lisa is a collaborative trainer at BayNVC and has been part of the teaching team for the year-long mediation program since 2008. She also offers mediation, private trainings and conflict-resolution coaching to individuals, businesses and organizations around the country.


Lynda Smith is a graduate of BayNVC's Leadership Program and has been teaching NVC throughout the Bay Area in classes and workshops since 2004. She also works with individuals and couples in private sessions and offers one-on-one empathic support to inmates at San Quentin. She is a former newspaper editor (San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Miami Herald) and a former Waldorf School class teacher.


Mair Alight is a CNVC Certified Trainer from Oakland, California, USA. Mair offers games, stories, songs and images to inspire and share NVC using the diversity of her life experiences to offer relevance and to invite understanding. Mair is a founding active member of the Safer Communities Project, offering NVC classes in prison, jails and for parolees and their families. Mair taught NVC classes in DMH Vacaville, CDCR for two years. Mair is an active member in the Consciousness Transformation Community, founded by Miki Kashtan. She has co-authored a children's NVC coloring book, Compassionate Underwear (Bear), co-produced a 60 minute DVD "Living NVC", and has developed an NVC gameset "The Jackal Cafe & Another Way".

"I have known Mair since 2002, when she attended the BayNVC Leadership Program. I appreciate, in particular, her deep passion for meaning, her dedication to authenticity and full human connection, and her humor and courage in responding to challenges. I trust her understanding of NVC and her continued immersion in learning and clarifying concepts and processes. I am impressed by what I see as her ability to see and reach human beings across a wide range of demographics and experiences and offer meaningful healing and learning to others." - Miki Kashtan


Meganwind Eoyang came to the study of Nonviolent Communication from a very different world. She grew up fighting in gang wars on the south side of Chicago, and then studied and taught martial arts to increase her sense of safety in a dangerous world. Her longing for sweet, deep connection with fellow humans arose after first finding safety and meaning in nature. Taoism, paganism, and later the Native American good red road gathered her Chinese, European, and North American spiritual roots. She was excited to discover that Nonviolent Communication offered clear steps for practicing the compassion, self love, and love for others which these (and other spiritual traditions) invite us to live. She is an associate trainer with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, CA.


Miki Kashtan, Ph.D., is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (www.baynvc.org). She is inspired by the role of visionary leadership in shaping a livable future, and works toward that vision by sharing the principles and practices of Nonviolent Communication through mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, consulting, and training for organizations and for committed individuals. Miki hosts the Conflict Hotline, a monthly live call-in TV show, and blogs at http://baynvc.blogspot.com. Her articles have appeared in Tikkun magazine and elsewhere.


Nancy Kahn is a staff trainer with BayNVC, and has been a trainer for the BayNVC Leadership Program. Her passion is bringing NVC to diverse settings, to communities of color, to youth and to under-represented groups. She focuses on working with schools, community-based organizations, local groups, families and couples by leading organizational trainings, classes, holding private sessions and co-leading residential trainings. She is currently a masters candidate in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and resides in Daly City.


Newt Bailey is a Collaborative Trainer with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC). He teaches introductory classes and foundations series in San Francisco, and appears with Miki Kashtan on the Conflict Hotline TV show. Newt is also a lead trainer in John Kinyon and Ike Lasater's yearlong NVC mediation programs, and in 2010 took over the lead trainer position in the Heartland NVC mediation yearlong. Newt has a private practice as a communication trainer and coach, a mediator, and facilitator. He works with couples, families, and organizations in the for-profit, education, and not-for-profit sectors, and has also taught NVC to prisoners and parolees. NVC informs and shapes Newt's spiritual life and he is persistently drawn to exploring the meeting point and overlap between NVC and other spiritual traditions, with a particular focus on non-dual spiritual teachings. Newt received an MA in Physics from Oxford University in England. He then worked briefly in sales, followed by seven years as a high school math teacher and department chair, before moving into software engineering and corporate management. After leaving the corporate world in 2004 Newt started to study NVC mediation with John Kinyon, and has been studying and sharing NVC ever since.


Roxanne Manning came to the United States from Trinidad when she was seven years old. She currently co-leads the BayNVC North American Leadership Program, from which she graduated in 2005, and facilitates practice groups for couples and parents. She has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, lives in Santa Clara County and offers private sessions for couples and individuals. Roxy is especially interested in working with people from currently underserved populations such as people of color and people with limited access to material resources.


Stephanie Bachmann Mattei (CNVC Certified Trainer) was born and raised in Florence, Italy, where she earned her Bachelor in Languages and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Stephanie moved to the USA in 1993, when she married her beloved husband. Together they are parenting their 3 self-educated children: two biological boys, and one daughter, who joined the family through adoption. Stephanie's core intertwined themes in life are: spirituality, parenting and healing. Once she became a mother, serving for over 10 years as a volunteer Leader with La Leche League International, becoming a BCI Certified Parenting Educator, and serving as an NVC based teleclass facilitator and family coach with the Consciously Parenting Project, an organization that ties love-based parenting with neuroscience. Her latest interest is tying parenting with mindfulness practices both for parents and for kids. She loves playing with and learning from kids. Inbal Kashtan has been the first CNVC Trainer that profoundly touched Stephanie, and introduced her to the practical applications of NVC and Parenting: in 2006 Stephanie graduated from the "Parent Peer Leadership Program," -- created and led by Inbal-- and has been involved in this NVC program ever since: as Assistant Trainer first and then as Co-Trainer. Stephanie is also deeply grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve both at the East Coast "NVC And Diversity Retreat" and the "New York Intensive Residential Training" as the Children's Program Trainer for several years. Stephanie also serves at the NVCA (http://www.nvctraining.com) as a Teleclass Coordinator and Trainer, offering telecourses often in partnership with CNVC Certified Trainer John Kinyon.
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