Certified Trainers at the Center for Nonviolent Communication

NVC explorer

I started my NVC journey in 2005, inspired by the changes that suddenly happened for my mother, after many years of her suffering from social fear/phobia.The reason for her change was her inner work with the NVC tools.
My own goal was, the thought of, that maybe, I could learn to be the peace in the world, I wanted. Still learning ; )

Besides being still in training, I have had motivating experience using the tools from NVC in case management for debilitating illness, and have offered support to others who needed help in similar situations. It can be between state departments and a challenged person, between sick person and hospital ect.

I was involved in organising the IIT in Denmark in 2017, which was a joyful, heartwarming and motivating experience. To be in a place, surrounded by people from different cultures and parts of the world, all willing to dive into the NVC world, landed in me as a totally magical experience, and I would like again, to contribute to the outer form and frame for an IIT, in which that may unfold again.

You know how leaders rarely get honest feedback about their behavior. Most of the time they are alone, lonely and prone to exercise power over others. This has negative impact on engagement, well-being, satisfaction and results of their teams.

What I do is help leaders navigate the change by being their behavioral consciousness and sparring partner, providing them relational space where they can have regular, honest feedback. I motivate leaders and their teams commit to an outcome that they can all fully support.

I am an experienced executive coach with 12 years of practice working with CEOs, sports coaches, professional athletes and leaders on a mission to improve their organizations for the better of their communities.

Nessa Dertnig discovered NVC for the first time while on a permaculture course in 2011, and since then has studied with a variety of trainers in the United States and Europe. The practice of NVC has helped her create more connected and fulfilling relationships with many people in her life, and feel more balanced, aware, curious, and open. She is currently deepening her practice as a candidate for trainer certification.

Nessa lives and works on a small organic farm in southern Austria with her husband and two teenage children. She also teaches in a local secondary school and is eager to learn more about how to bring NVC into a public school setting and share NVC with students, parents, and teachers.

Khuyen graduated with a Master's degree in International Development and completed a certificate in Mediation and Reconciliation in Ireland. Khuyen has more than 18 years of experience in the fields of Human Resources Management, training, career coaching and operations, and has participated in several NVC International Intensive Trainings. Khuyen strongly believes that deep inside people & organizations are beautiful and legitimate needs. Realizing these needs is the foundation of social growth and development. Khuyen strives to increase the understanding of needs, collaboration and effectiveness at the organizational and societal scale through various training and coaching projects to build a happier and more compassionate society.

Pedro's background is from Physics, having worked with several universities and research centers in Europe and former Eastern Bloc countries. The need to reach others in a more effective way led him to choose to become a primary and secondary school teacher, with the dream of changing the world through families and young people.

He grew up in a family where conflicts were avoided and communication was very poor or absent. He needed to deconstruct his rigidity and fear of conflict and rebuild the adult he had become. Immersed himself in different areas, such as Theater, Philosophy for Children, Yoga, Buddhist Meditation, Creative Writing, Systemic Constellations, Nonviolent Communication and Conflict Mediation.

His experience of almost 30 years as a teacher and 10 years as a Conflict Mediator with families and young people in regions of great conflict and violence, has given him a very accurate understanding of the dynamics and nuances of the conflict and proof of the effectiveness of Nonviolent Communication.

In 2021 he wrote his book “From Conflict to Love – Nonviolent Communication in School and Life”, published by Astrolábio Editions, in Portugal and Brazil.

He loves meaningful human relationships. Meaning, Contribution and Purpose are three human needs that are very present in everything he does. That's why he’s here!

Tammi Terrell Morris is an Author, Activist, and Spoken Word Artist. Tammi holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and a Masters of Science Degree in Leadership and Management. Tammi is committed to building community and practicing empathy. Tammi has spent the majority of her professional career working with individuals with developmental disabilities. Tammi is currently a  a full time Caregiver to her 2 sons. In her spare time, she enjoys producing and recording material for her podcast Confused Reality as well as serving as Treasurer for the New Mexico Network for Nonviolent Communication. She hopes to use her gifts of writing poetry, performing spoken word, motivational speaking, and connecting with others to make the world a more loving and accepting place. 

I am very grateful to be part of a team that has such an intensive meeting, joint Learning and growth.

On site, I would like to give my energy to you as a participant and the Experience as simple and easy as possible.

My care and contribution serve your security and well-being. Please talk to me if I can do something for you (preferably in German and English).

NVC has a high presence in my private and professional life. I pass it on to exercise groups, our local network and in seminars, trainings and as a parent-child course.

I am very much looking forward to the international community and to a week in "Giraffic-World”.

NVC trainer candidate

I first came across NVC in 2021, and saw it as a guidebook which contained clear pictures on how to be compassionate towards others and myself in ways that I was searching for since my childhood.
Since then it has influenced my behaviour and my relationships with family, friends and coworkers to a degree that got me motivated to start the path to become a trainer.
My main motivation is to bring social change through NVC specially to the ones who’d have less chances to come across it, being financial blocks, culture and other aspects.

Recently I've been working as one of the coordinating members in an international team of certified trainers and NVC enthusiasts in order to build a school in Kenya that will work based on NVC and will be a refuge for children victims of physical punishment in schools, as well as morally and sexually abused children.

I'm also involved as a facilitator in other social projects which offer NVC for free to international communities who struggle to pay for trainings. 

Over the past five years, Trang's journey as a practitioner and advocate of Compassionate Communication in Vietnam has allowed her to nurture many meaningful friendships and apply NVC’s principles to her work in education and community engagement. More than just a communication technique, for her, NVC is a transformative practice that enables individuals to cultivate self-awareness, connect authentically with others, leading to effective collaboration and sustain wellbeing for all.

In the past 5 years, NVC Chinese Net has devoted itself to nurturing public, for-profit, and non-profit organizations, as well as schools, through Nonviolent Communication (NVC)-inspired training and initiatives.

We have lovingly crafted a robust and thriving web of communities, with Chinese-speaking NVC practitioners spread across China.

We are now embarking on an exhilarating journey, embracing a refreshed vision that aims to empower a thousand Chinese NVC leaders, while our organization is experiencing a profound metamorphosis, guided by teal organizational principles, to become an exemplar of the partnership paradigm.

Francis Chiadi, OP, FIMC, AloHA* is a Dominican friar, a geoscientist and a theologian. Francis is an advocate for dialogue and counter-conflict engagement.

His dialogue interests include: interdisciplinary, interreligious, intergenerational, intercultural, intergender, interindividual, interinstitutional, interperiodic, etc. His aesthetic critique interests include: ceremony, culinary, branding, commemorative vesture, digital graphics, etc.

Introductory Instructor, Christian Sacred Scriptures and Classic Languages (Hebrew, Greek and Latin); Principal guide for visiting tourists and pilgrims, revered 50-year-old Dominican Chapel, Ibadan; Director, Sports and Games Unit, Dominican University. Regular participant at training sessions (on Team building, Succession Strategizing and vertical/horizontal team
communicating) facilitated by the Centre Management Development, the Centre for Non-Violent Communication (CNVC) and the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, CNI Education Committee. Friar Francis is recognized as an Alumnus of High Achievement, University of Nigeria Alumni Association, UNAA.

Robin is an educator and author living in Silver City, NM. She spends her time teaching at the local Montessori school, offering support in a self-empowerment retreat space and serving as a leader in her community’s NVC practice group. Robin is dedicated to strengthening her community through honest, loving communication and authentic connection. She will be releasing her first book - a collection of poems and prayers - in May.