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John Kinyon is a leading trainer of the
Center
for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
and its global network, and is a co-founder
of the
Bay Area NVC organization. John works
with individuals, groups, and organizations
and has offered mediation and communication
skills training to thousands of people around
the world, including providing conflict resolution
training to Afghan tribal elders along the
Pakistani border in 2002. John has worked
closely with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg,
Ph.D. since 2000, and is regularly invited
by Dr. Rosenberg to be a staff trainer with
him at 9-day NVC international intensive trainings
(IITs). 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,
Ken Wilber, David Whyte, Byron Katie, Deepak
Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Parmahansa Yogananda
of Self-Realization Fellowship.
John received his B.A. from the University
of San Francisco, where he majored in studies
of psychology and philosophy and played for
their nationally ranked soccer team. He went
on to receive an M.S. degree in clinical psychology
from Penn State University, spending 5 years
of doctoral training working as a psychotherapist
with individuals and groups and as a research
assistant at the Penn State Stress and Anxiety
Disorders Institute. He then started and developed
a small business in the gourmet food industry
before becoming a full time communication
trainer and starting two NVC businesses. John
lives with his wife and three children in
the San Francisco Bay Area.





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"Nonviolence
is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It
is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man."
Mahatma Gandhi
“When we understand the needs that motivate our
own and others behavior, we have no enemies.”
Marshall
Rosenberg, Ph.D.
"[My]
experience has shown that another paradigm is far more
effective and constructive for the individual and for
society. It is that, given a suitable psychological climate,
humankind is trustworthy, creative, self-motivated, powerful,
and constructive - capable of releasing undreamed-of
potentialities."
Carl
Rogers, A Way of Being
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