I am honored to be able to pass on the legacy of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the most powerful tool I know for reading, understanding, and influencing our own and other people‘s behaviors.
“Don’t use NVC as a narcotic” is a phrase that deeply inspires me: I intend to unleash the full and radical potential of NVC, not only to help people in any type of relationship (including with themselves), but also to support groups, companies, and organizations toward a change of course that I see as necessary in the world.
Today more than ever, thanks in part to the advent of artificial intelligence, we are called upon to ask ourselves what it means to be human, how we function, and what we need to be well.
I know how NVC can help create fertile ground in which all projects for change that already exist, and that want to exist in the world, can sprout. I am aware that in order to have an impact on liberation processes, it is necessary to act both individually and collectively, and I intend to devote most of my energy and abilities to this.
I learned about CNV in 2010, after years of trying to help this world with alternative economy projects. Yes, because in the meantime, I had found myself on autopilot studying economics, and although I was fulfilling my university obligations admirably, love had not really sparked. Only a deep indignation and a desire to truly understand.
As I gradually understood the first, technical part of the system of domination underlying the economy, I threw myself into action, promoting two wonderful projects involving complementary currencies, which, however, lacked a key ingredient to live up to their dreams.
Just as yet another conflict was erupting in the association I belonged to, during a permaculture course I heard a participant talk about this Eduardo Montoya, who in his association had transformed a conflict into a sea of sacred tears in a single weekend.
So, I followed him, and I am incredibly lucky to have been influenced by his way of living NVC. This is another reason why it was love at first sight. Although for at least a couple of years, I don‘t think I understood much.
I continued to attend courses in Celleno with Eduardo and other trainers for years, and I was nourished by the richness of authentic and vulnerable relationships, which accompanied me in discovering more authentic parts of myself and gave me access to deeper insights.
All the journey led me to bring a vision of the economy that I have named Mother Economy, and it is my contribution to combining Nonviolence with Economics.
In this way, I dream of helping to create awareness of the collective power that can be unleashed by a communion of intent, organized in a manner consistent with the purpose. I dream that this awareness will give rise to something capable of weaving together thousands, then tens and hundreds of thousands, then millions, and then who knows.
I dream of seeing the spread of an economic system that returns to its original purpose: to deeply honour the resources that Mother Nature offers us in abundance, in order to satisfy the needs of everyone and everything.
I feel immense gratitude for the courage, love, and vision that Marshall Rosenberg gave us, and I also want to mention in this bio the influence of my brother (thanks to whom I quickly realized that I couldn’t stand judgment), my grandparents (who inspired me in humility, generosity, and the search for truth), and my parents (for passing on and embodying the legacy of their parents, and for the unconditional love they allowed me to experience).
And I am grateful for every day I spend with my family: my partner Claudia and our daughter Ariel. We are each other‘s personal trainers, with all the love we are capable of.
And then I am grateful for having learned to read, because otherwise I would have missed Charles Eisenstein (how close I felt reading his “Sacred Economics”…) and Miki, Inbal, and Arnina Kashtan, as well as the whole NGL (Nonviolent Global Liberation) group, and the richness of stimuli and the power of the heart in action.