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John has offered communication and conflict
resolution to people around the world, including
work with Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani
border in early 2002. John specializes in
NVC mediation as a spiritual practice, and
over the past 7 years he has co-developed
with colleague Ike Lasater NVC mediation training
that now includes 5-day residential retreats
and year-long immersion programs in the U.S.,
Europe, and Australia. He has been a trainer
of the Center
for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)since
2000 and is a co-founder of the Bay Area NVC
organization (BayNVC). He has studied and
worked closely with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg
since 1998 and has been regularly invited
by him to be a staff trainer at 9-day international
intensive trainings.
John has mediated conflicts on just about
every level of human relationship, including
couples, family, community, business, legal
contexts and institutions. In organizations
he has had particular experience with family
businesses. John's mediation practice has
included an entire graduate faculty of the
University of California at Los Angeles, the
Executive vice Chancellor and all the vice
chancellors at another UC system university,
numerous family businesses, families with
inheritance issues, faculty and administration
in alternative schools, personal and business
partnership dissolutions, and individuals
and groups desiring conflict coaching and
communication training support.
John's professional background is in academic
psychology and psychotherapy, particularly
in Carl Rogers' study of empathic listening,
congruence, and unconditional positive regard,
and also Mahatma Gandhi's life and work applying
nonviolence to social change. 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. After graduate school,
John helped start and develop a small business
in the gourmet food industry, and then went
on start two NVC businesses. John lives with
his wife and three children in the San Francisco
Bay Area. For more information about NVC see
www.baynvc.org, www.cnvc.org, and www.nonviolentcommunication.com.






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