By addressing the underlying causes of the culture wars, Jeff Brown designs solutions that help everyone get their needs met peacefully. As a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication since 2005, Jeff led more than 800 days of training in thirty U.S. states and ten countries, including South Korea, Japan, Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, New Zealand, and the U.K.
From 2009 to 2015, he served as the executive director for the Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio, a regional nonprofit organization based in Columbus, Ohio, USA. In 2020, he joined the staff of the Center for Nonviolent Communication originally as Operations Director, and in July 2021 became Executive Director.
One of Jeff's favorite methods for learning and practicing Nonviolent Communication is the NVC Dance Floors as developed by Bridget Belgrave and Gina Lawrie, which are especially helpful for people with kinesthetic and spatially-oriented learning styles. The Dance Floors are spatial maps made up of large cards that place NVC processes on the floor in various layouts called "dances" where the person practicing physically moves from one card to another in a "dance of communication."
