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BayNVC - Bay Area Nonviolent Communication
BayNVC Trainers
Annie Symens-Bucher is a collaborative trainer with Bay Area
Nonviolent Communication (Bay NVC). A graduate of Bay NVC's Leadership
Program in 2005, Annie is in her third year of teaching nonviolent
communication to couples and parents. She has been a peace activist
for thirty years, and is the co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience
(NDE), an organization focused since 1982 on ending nuclear testing
at the Nevada Test Site. She worked for more than twenty years as the
co-director of the Franciscan Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation
Office, and is currently the personal assistant to Joanna Macy,
eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism. Annie and her husband,
Terry, are the parents of five children. The vision of Anne through
Bay Area Nonviolent Communication is to create a world where
everyone's needs matter and people have the skills to make peace.
Cathy Bucher is a graduate of Bay NVC's Committed
Practitioners Program. She is a teacher of eighteen years
and has a Masters degree in Education, with an emphasis on Special
Education. Cathy enjoys teaching NVC through workshops and private
sessions in her hometown of Davis, CA and is excited to collaborate with Bay NVC.
She is enriched by this work because it helps her create the kind of
world she wants to share with her sons, Max and Nate, and her sweetheart, David.
Edmundo Norte is the Director of Education for the Mexican American
Community Services Agency, the largest social services agency serving
the Latina/o community in California's Silicon Valley. He has taught
courses and presents seminars in the California State University system
in Educational Leadership and multiculturalism. He is a national
consultant on issues of diversity, equity, and transformative
leadership, and conducts training in "A Human Development Approach to
Transforming Power, Perceptions, and Society". In 2003 he began
integrating Nonviolent Communication in his work on equity and
multiculturalism, and he has completed the BayNVC North American
Leadership Program. His work now integrates critical consciousness with
compassionate interpersonal connection in educational and social
transformation. While his formal education is rooted in developmental
psychology, his professional career includes teaching at every level of
public education, from Kinder to grad school. He holds a master's degree
from Harvard University and has nearly completed his doctoral work there
in the department of Human Development and Psychology. His greatest
challenge and learning experience continues to be the developmentally
responsible parenting of his two children - an ongoing labor of love.
Grace Maina has been teaching Nonviolent Communication (NVC) since
2005. She has studied NVC for six years and been in a spiritual
practice aligned with NVC for thirteen years. She has been an assistant
trainer with Inbal and Miki Kashtan (co-founders of BayNVC), is a
collaborative trainer at BayNVC, California and is a graduate of the
BayNVC Leadership Program. She holds empathy groups and specializes in
individual empathy coaching, parent coaching as well as mediations.
Grace has degrees from University of California in Berkeley and the City
University of New York. She is a parent and currently lives in Oakland,
California. For more information, please see www.empathyandgrace.com.
"The empathy session [with Grace] provided so much clarity for me... there is something
very powerful about being heard...for the first time I could actually hear myself
and just by being listened to and magically a healing took place."
-- Koren Clark, spiritual practitioner
Inbal Kashtan, certified CNVC trainer, is co-founder of BayNVC and the Parenting Project Coordinator for
the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Inbal teaches parenting workshops and classes and speaks at parenting-related
conferences around the country, in addition to co-leading BayNVC's leadership program and other NVC workshops and retreats.
She is the author of Parenting from Your Heart: Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection, and Choice, and has had articles
published in parenting publications around the country, including in Mothering.
Inbal's passion for sharing NVC with parents stems from her vision of a cascade of personal and social transformation
that begins with a change in parenting practices. Her greatest teacher for the past several years has been her son, who has
been mentoring her on what it means to live nonviolently.
Inbal also has ongoing interest in supporting the development of current and future NVC leaders, and in the application of NVC
in other social change arenas. She holds a master's degree in Jewish studies from the Graduate Theological Union.
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. For more information about John and his work
visit www.johnkinyon.com.
Karl Steyaert is a passionate about sharing NVC and building communities
infused with NVC consciousness and principles of autonomy, interdependence
and authenticity. In addition to five years of studying and sharing NVC,
Karl also has an academic background teaching about sustainable systems,
as well as training in community building, integral theory, aikido, and
Buddhist meditation. From 2002 until 2005, he lived and taught at the
Findhorn Foundation Community - an ecovillage and holistic learning
center in northeastern Scotland - where he directed the Findhorn
Community Semester (FCS), a sustainability-focused interdisciplinary
college study program.
Katherine Simon, Ph.D. -- A former high school English and drama teacher,
Kathy Simon taught student teachers at Stanford University and co-directed
the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national school-reform organization.
Kathy is the author of Moral Questions in the Classroom: How to Get Kids to
Think Deeply About Real Life and Their School Work, which won the American
Educational Research Association's award for "outstanding book in curriculum."
Kathy's partner, Inbal Kashtan, is one of the founders of BayNVC, and
Kathy has been teaching NVC since 2005, with a focus on NVC for couples,
parents, and teachers.
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.
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, certified NVC trainer, is co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and the North America
Leadership Program. Miki conducts organizational trainings, consults with private and public sector organizations,
leads practice groups, and teaches NVC at workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the country. She holds a Ph.D.
in sociology from University of California at Berkeley.
Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with
leaders and activists. She also particularly enjoys working with and coaching people interested in learning to teach NVC.
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.
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.
Oren Sofer has been teaching Compassionate Communication (NVC) since
2006. He has studied and practiced Vipassana meditation since 1997 and
holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University.
Currently, Oren is training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for
healing trauma, and works with individuals, couples, groups and
organizations as a communication trainer and counselor. Oren is also
a trained mediator, musician and poet, and serves as the Operations
and Finance Director for the Mind Body Awareness Project.
Sigal Shoham was introduced to NVC in 2003, and began teaching in 2006,
while completing the BayNVC Leadership Program. She facilitates BayNVC's
introductory evenings, foundations courses, practice groups, organizational
trainings as well as assists at retreats. In addition, Sigal is a mediator
at San Francisco Small Claims court. She hopes to share to share the
transformation, fun, self-awareness and support
that NVC has has brought to her life, and brings her passion and NVC skills
to her career as an actor and playwright as well.
Sigal brings freshness, clarity and a fearless authenticity to her work.
On more than one occasion, I have seen her steer a sleepy group into an engaged aliveness.
Her sense of fun is deeply contagious.
-- The Very Rev'd Maria DeCarvalho, Former Dean, The Cathedral of St. John, Providence, RI
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