Currently based in South Portugal, I’m gradually settling down after 20 years of almost constant travel. I’ve been working locally and internationally, providing training, facilitation, consultancy, mediation and coaching to individuals, couples and groups of all shapes and sizes (families, teams, organisations, communities).

In these, I draw from an extensive ‘toolkit’ from various modalities to develop skills in conscious communication, effective collaboration, authentic relating, community/team building, shared leadership, as well as personal and relational healing. 

I learnt many of these modalities on my travels, whilst living in various intentional communities and working with all sorts of organisations. For example: Nonviolent Communication, The Wheel of Consent, Forum, Sociocracy, Restorative Circles and Systems Building.

I noticed the groups that had implemented these were functioning better than those which hadn’t. So I began teaching them to those groups that were struggling without them. A similar pattern emerged with individuals and couples. As I gained more expertise and skills in supportive practices, I started offering coaching, mediation and consultation.

The requests for training and support continued. At the same time, my own hunger to deepen my understanding of these tools and to learn new complementary skills magnified. At some points, I was spending months at back-to-back trainings and transformational events (offering, receiving or both).  And so, I became a bumblebee; cross-pollinating from one corner of the world to the other, working with thousands of individuals, relationships and groups.

In them all, I continuously discover similar struggles, patterns, longings and unconscious systems in operation

The remedy is almost always the same – to slow down, bring awareness to these harmful patterns of interaction, create enough space to breathe and notice what’s really going on – inside ourselves, in relation to each other, and in the systems within which we operate. And from there, we can make conscious choices about how to act in more connected and effective ways.

It is such a joy to witness the results; to revisit a client or a friend who I’ve coached, a participant from a training, or a group with whom I helped resolve a conflict and build new response systems… and to see the smiling faces, hear the stories of rekindled hope, regained trust, renewed enthusiasm for life… the depth of healing, the lasting transformation… people really thriving. 

I know it’s possible, because I’m seeing it, I’m doing it, I’m sharing it.  

I want to share it with you — with everyone who also wants to co-create a more beautiful world that works better for everyone.

"Donal is the most dynamic & dedicated facilitator I have ever been with."

- Goiatz Arrizkaterra -

“Donal’s facilitation was top class, he exhibits mastery over the material, really displaying an authenticity that I found helped me to access the material.”

- David Patterson -

"You brought NVC to me and it was nothing short of saving my life." 

- Yaga Sendur - 

"I attended a 2 day foundation training with Donal and couldn’t recommend him more! Compassionate and wise facilitator who obviously not only teaches but lives NVC and conveys it beautifully!" 

- Ida Blazek -