My journey with Nonviolent Communication began in February 2000. The very first day of my introduction training I thought, “This is what I was looking for! I want to do this all my life! I want to be a trainer and share it everywhere!” It has been an intensive, transformative journey that completely changed my life.
I feel joy and gratefulness when I recall attending several days of NVC training, many of those with Marshall Rosenberg, whom I loved and deeply resonated with. I began sharing NVC as a trainer in 2001 in Peru, where I did volunteer work to support street children. I have shared NVC as an independent trainer for over two decades, before choosing to be certified with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication.
It was my passion for world peace and social change that brought me to NVC. Throughout my life, my driving force has been a desire to contribute to social change contribute to a world that embraces the needs of all life. Before Nonviolent Communication, I struggled to maintain love and understanding in all situations. There were times when I harbored strong anger towards those whose actions I desperately wished to change. NVC provided me with a very practical, at the same time spiritual, way to connect with life and to appreciate the beauty of human needs, even in those people whose actions I considered destructive.
I have left my well-paid job and embraced life without personal income, sharing all my possessions with the intentional community I co‐funded, “ Comunità rigenertive ”. I offer NVC trainings in the gift economy. This choice aligns with my values and meets my need for freedom, meaning, community, and interconnectedness. I am passionate about navigating with others about what this means to each of us, considering our own needs and those of all.
I wish to bring NVC consciousness to communities facing disruption, famine, violence, migration, and uncertainty. I wish to bring it to bear on our abilities and capabilities to work together in groups in a way that satisfies needs for connection, common purpose, and efficacy / efficiency with care. I am a Friend of the Nonviolent Global Liberation Community . I share values and a purpose to orient all I do in Nonviolence in the sense that Gandhi and Martin Luther King intended.
In the process, I have developed growing interest and expertise in co-designing and facilitating dialogical systems and group processes, for decision-making, organisational design, purpose and vision processes, feedback flow and conflict transformation, with the desire to weave togetherness in all us humans attempt to contribute to. I love to offer support on this journey, by offering training, group facilitation, coaching, individual empathic support, and mediation, for all in all walks of life, and in particular in organisations, communities, ecovillages, movements, which work to bring change, which endeavour to bring about a world that works for all.
I value working for change in a way that I see as consistent with NVC consciousness and with my own Quaker belief that there is “that of God in everyone.” I see this “beloved divine energy” as connecting us all with our shared humanity, our beautiful needs, and our feelings.
