Coach, Mediator, Facilitator.
Workshops & Retreats

I’ve been practicing NVC for 10 years and became certified in 2022. I live on the West Coast of Ireland, raising my two young children. I practice NVC daily in my parenting and partnership, centering my life around personal growth and healing. I’m dedicated to supporting others on their own journeys of transformation. I work online with individuals and couples, offering coaching and mediation, and I run workshops and retreats in the Spring and Autumn on the West Coast.

Coaching 

Utilise NVC practices and principles to support a deeper connection to yourself; learn the practice of empathic listening and how to find your authentic voice.

Explore and integrate:
Deep self-connection
Empowered decision making
Authentic relating
Saying no with compassion
Asking for what you want
Gratitude and appreciation practice

Mediation

Transform conflict through empathic listening and NVC principles; Get support in hearing each other with true understanding and find solutions that attend to needs.

Come together to:
Build trust
Shift from conflict to connection
Co-create meaningful connection
Cultivate empathy with needs based listening
Relate with authenticity 
Reconcile and heal
Practice gratitude and appreciation

Workshops & Retreats 

Cultivate the inner resources to deal with whatever life brings you. Utilising Nonviolent Communication principles and practices that can support us in developing more compassion and connection with ourselves and others. Real time practice and group connection is woven into all workshop and retreat spaces.
 
Explore & Learn:
The foundations of Nonviolent Communication
A deeper understanding of feelings and needs
The power of empathy
Embodied self connection practices
Authentic relating
Transforming intense emotions like anger, shame, guilt and fear.

Testimonials:

On facilitation: "She is strong and gentle, has a clear understanding of power dynamics and how to dissolve power differentials, she has the tools and integration to share NVC with others with great purity and integrity." -N.B

On workshops: "It was excellent. My first experience with NVC. Everything was explained really well, the exercises we did were very powerful, the atmosphere created by Jem through the very effective teaching and facilitation made everyone feel very at ease. Although it was a group of strangers, it was easy to be open and participate as it felt very safe. " -U.M

"I connected with everyone in the room on such a deep level. I left feeling lighter. Jem ensured the space we shared was was safe and open and free from judgement. I can't wait to go to another event." -K.D

On coaching: "Jem has extraordinary sensitivity and intuition about what a person needs. It seems to me she's very deeply listening to a person's process, and she's so there, she's just one breath away from where they need to go next. She has a natural gift for going into deep places with participants and making it safe." -G.W