Yay! Here's a growing list of NVC trainers/supporters who have expressed an interest in being a part of our NVC Camp. Sending out my gratitude...

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NVC Trainers Invited:
Karl Steyaert (Belgium/USA)
Karsten Schacht-Petersen (Denmark)
Nada Ignjatovic (Serbia)
Shantigarbha (England, Germany)

NVC Supporters Invited:
Alexis Proniewski (Paris, France)
Amanda Raine (England, Ahmedabad)
Clayton Barker (USA)
Jason Stewart (Auroville)
L'aura Joy (Auroville)
Shyla Rao (Chennai)

Trainers' Bios:
Karl

Karl shares, "I enjoy learning, sharing learning, co-creating communities, and cultivating ways of living and learning that are collaborative, empowering, and sustainable. My personal passion and professional life have centered on teaching, in settings ranging from college classrooms and study circles to gardens and mountain ranges. I have had the opportunity to live and learn alongside urban gardeners in inner-city Detroit, Buddhist monks in Nepal, teenage organic farmers in the mountains of Vermont, and ecovillagers in Scotland. I first started sharing NVC while living at the Findhorn Community in Scotland 2003-05, and 2006-08 I have been in the San Francisco Bay Area, often working with Bay Area NVC. In the fall of 2008 I am living in Auroville, India, co-teaching a sustainability-themed and NVC-informed university program there."

Karsten

Karsten shares, "I'm 65 years old. I have in my life worked a lot with personal development, since 1999 with NVC as the main tool and understanding about contact and communication. Since then I have rebuild my old farm to a NVC-centre, having workshops and retreats on NVC. We run a 2-year training program, now for the 4th year. I also work as a psychotherapist, offering NVC-based help to singles, couples and families. I am a certified trainer and have been educated mostly by Marshall Rosenberg, and I have been a trainer on several IIT's in 2003-2005. I have developed at training tool called "Steps for connection" that I enjoy very much to introduce to people."

Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably,
Live with gratitude and peace in your heart.

Nada

Born in Serbia in April 1947, Nada has been working as a university lecturer and researcher in Developmental Psychology at the University of Belgrade for 30 years. She has led many research and intervention projects, and has published several books and programs in the field of personal development, communication, social interaction and education. Co-founder and director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication's "Smile keepers," an NGO concerned primarily with psychosocial help, raising self and group awareness, and reconstruction of educational practice and social change. Certified in 1993 by Marshall Rosenberg to teach his model of Nonviolent Communication, she has been giving trainings in NVC throughout Europe and Israel, and has been a co-trainer with M. Rosenberg at many 10-day Intensive International Trainings (IITs) in Europe and India. Nada has been deeply connected to Auroville since 1994, when she took part in planting Peace Trees with Danaan Parry. In 2005, she gave a 10-day intensive training in NVC in Verite, Auroville.

Shantigarbha

Shantigarbha (born Christopher Warren) grew up in Croydon, UK and studied Latin, Greek & Philosophy at Oxford University. He's had a variety of jobs including charity fundraising for the Karuna Trust (www.karuna.org - funding health and educational projects in India), managing a charity producing tapes on meditation and Buddhism (www.freebuddhistaudio.com), working in a psychiatric hospital, working as the Sales and Marketing manager of a software company, publisher and co-editor of Urthona, the Buddhist arts magazine (www.urthona.com). While he was managing Dharmachakra, he co-wrote an audio-version of the life of the Buddha, which has sold more than five thousand copies. In 1996 he was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order and given the name 'Shantigarbha', which means 'Seed of Peace'.

He's been practising Nonviolent Communication for the last six years, teaching it for the last five, and has been certified with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication since 2004. He works in the UK, the USA, India and Sri Lanka offering trainings and retreats for Buddhists; public workshops including transforming anger, healing retreats and NVC Year Programmes; trainer development groups; training for prison inmates; training days for teachers and marriage guidance counsellors. He spends time each year running retreats for 'Dalit' Buddhists and others in India and working with mixed groups of Sinhalese and Tamils in war-torn Sri Lanka.

He has been a Chapter Convenor and Regional Order Convenor for men in the Eastern Region of the UK, and mediates as a member of the Western Buddhist Order Mediators' Pool.

He has appeared on Sri Lankan TV to talk about NVC, and writes regular columns on NVC in two UK magazines: Juno (a natural approach to family life) and Funky Raw (raw food).

For more information about Shantigarbha, his trainings in the UK, India and the USA, and his writings, visit www.seedofpeace.org

Supporters' Bios:
Alexis
Alexis shares, "I've been working for 12 years in the field of education. I discovered NVC 10 years ago when I worked as a counselor and mediator in the 'poorest' suburbs of my town.
It has been very useful in my work and with my relatives, friends and intimate relationships.
I'm invested and inspired by projects about social change and I've worked with kids and adults to make it happen. I participated in the first NVC workshop for teenagers in France in 2004 and was invited to Belgium and Switzerland to
organize those kind of events over there. I moved to Paris a year ago in order to develop my work with companies and different kinds of institutions. I work with them to support their desire to cooperate in a more effective way.
I would be happy to share my experiences of NVC and give people an opportunity to develop the ability to express themselves and empathize with others. For me, NVC is about regaining one's power in life, and being aware of one's needs and the needs of others. It's about having a better understanding about what's alive in us and finding sustainable solutions to meet the needs of all."

Amanda

Amanda shares, "I came to India in December 2006 to further my study in Non Violent Communication at an Intensive International Training with Dr Marshal Rosenberg. I was greatly inspired by India and apart from a couple of trips back to Europe I have remained in India since then. I am currently living in Ahmedabad where I teach Theatre and Non Violent Communication in an International School. In addition to this I travel extensively throughout India sharing and learning NVC. I have now been sharing NVC for over three and a half years. Having been trained in Theatre at Bristol University, UK, I regularly incorporate role play, which gives individuals and companies the opportunity to actively practice the techniques of NVC in 'live' situations."

Clayton

Clayton Barker, 26, was born and raised in Santa Rosa,CA, USA (Turtle Island). He remembers being actively involved with sustainability learning since the age of 5. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006 with a degree in Environmental Justice & Racism and a minor in Geography. Clayton is passionate about many community based projects and for the last 4 years, has been involved in creating curriculum and delivering watershed learning programs throughout the USA. He is envisionioning a program for youth based upon integrating watershed learning and nonviolent communication, giving young people the conscious tools to care for water for the next Seven Generations to come. Clayton first learned NVC in Chiapas, Mexico in 2007 and has enjoyed the profound changes in his and deepening in connection ever since. In 2008, Clayton created "Building Bridges: Life Enhancing Communication," facilitating Nonviolent Communication workshops and presentations for the Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, University of Colorado Environmental Center, Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, Taos Peace House, The Rivers & Birds Wild Earth Alliance, Awakening the Dreamer Symposium New Mexico Facilitators, and the Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance. He has faith and hope that he will become a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication as he progresses on the path to fulfill the registration needs of the certification process! Connection, presence, and generous contribution are his most valued needs!

L'aura

I was born and grew up in Auroville. I had my first introduction to NVC one year ago, when my partner started reading "NVC in Action" (from NVC: A Language of Life) extracts to me as random bed-time stories. The rest is history, I guess. NVC workshops in Auroville and Bhaja (India), an IIT in Albuquerque (USA), and lots of learning/teaching/practicing/living NVC.

Shyla

A talk Radio Host, poet, Madhubani painter and a lover of Life and its marvels.
Her objective in life is to contribute to a growing environment by being a co creator. To continuously learn and influence the learning to hone personal and holistic learning on self and all others around oneself.
Has been pursuing internship in Applied Behavioral Sciences in INDIAN SOCIETY FOR APPLIED BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES - An associate of NTL USA.
Is currently alive with expanding horizons in NON VIOLENT COMMUNICATION and INTEGRATED WELLNESS OF WOMEN (I WOW).
Participant and invitee to NVC CLOSED SESSION at New Mexico City Albuquerque by Founder Dr Marshall Rosenberg.
Have presented paper in Albuquerque on Spirituality and India.
Have conducted workshops in working with Inner Conflicts in UAE -Dubai.
Has worked with world class cross Cultural Trainers (SIETAR).
Her fortes are intra work, building Interpersonal Relationships, Team Building, Anger Management and Attitudinal shifts of a leader who wishes to have power with rather than power over.
Eliciting sensitivity to diversity and gender realities, managing anger, change and emotional competency.
She has also conducted open programmes for Mono Parenting, and Non violent communication, counseling skills for staff.
The Hindu and Training and Management has published her articles.
She has been interviewed for her unique workshops by the AHA/BIG FM, magazines like the Kalki, and the daily The Hindu.
You could check her out at www.vedvyasinnerspace.com
Currently working under the banner of VED VYAS INNER SPACE, A CONNECTING POINT FOR HUMAN RELATIONS.