NYCNVC
Trainers and
Facilitators
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Trainers
Thom Bond - CNVC Trainer
Thom brings 27 years of human potential
experience and training experience to his work as an
Internationally Certified NVC Trainer. His passion and knowledge
of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) combine to create a practical,
understandable, humorous, and potentially profound, approach for learning
and integrating the skills of peacemaking. He is described as concise, inspiring, sincere
and optimistic, applying transformational and spiritual ideas and
sensibilities to real-life situations. Many of his students
become active facilitators, trainers and practitioners.
As a writer, teacher, speaker and coach, Thom has taught
tens of thousands of
clients, participants, readers and listeners Nonviolent Communication.
He has been published or featured in The New York Times,
New
York Magazine,
Yoga
Magazine, and is a regular guest on radio and
television.
Thom has a private practice as a trainer, speaker, mediator, and
coach. He works with individuals, couples, families, businesses,
schools and other local organizations.
Thom is a founder and the Executive Director of The New York Center for
Nonviolent Communication, the author and facilitator for The Compassion
Course (an international, comprehensive NVC training with over 500 participants
throughout the world), a member of the Communications Coordination Committee
for the United Nations and a member of the 2012 CNVC IIT training team.
To contact Thom, please call 646 201 9226
or email him at
thombond@nycnvc.org
Facilitators
Elizabeth Banner
- Facilitator & Coach
Elizabeth comes to Nonviolent Communication as part of her path of learning and exploration of the human experience. She has led a transformational lifestyle for over 25 years working in diverse environments, at the highest levels of spiritual, social, corporate and political leadership.
Elizabeth is an ordained Interfaith minister, coach, workshop facilitator, and teacher. She holds separate degrees in Education and Public Administration and is a certified trainer/mentor in soulful leadership from the Center for Soulful Living. She is a graduate of the
NYCNVC Integration Program and has completed three years of the NYCNVC Trainer Training
Program.
She facilitates NVC
practice groups in Manhattan, teaches NVC
practice group facilitation and
coaches
clients in NVC integration. She enjoys helping others learn how to live authentically with themselves and others in a way that supports their lives and
relationships.
Elizabeth has been dedicated to supporting the growth of a facilitator
community in NYC. She continues to provide NVC coaching/mentoring
services and continues to lead introductory
practice groups
in Manhattan. You can contact her at elizabeth@nycnvc.org
David Browning - Facilitator
David Browning is a pharmaceutical chemist and avid gardener. He completed his Peer Leadership training with Thom Bond and Elizabeth Banner of NYCNVC in 2009. He has completed the Discovery Weekend, Living from Within (empathy intensive), What I Tell Myself (self empathy intensive) with Thom Bond and is currently participating in the Introduction Leadership Program.
Paula Carino - Facilitator
Paula is a yoga instructor, writer, musician, and certified hypnotist. She is studying for her MS in mental health counseling. She completed her Peer Leadership training with Thom Bond and Elizabeth Banner of NYCNVC in 2009. Paula comes from a long line of sulkers, shouters, and sarcasm mavens and has found that, while these communication styles have their charms, NVC is a much more powerful tool for creating connection and respect.
Nirjhari Delong
- Facilitator and Coach
Nirjhari has been studying NVC since the spring of 2005. She is a graduate the NYCNVC Integration Program and and is entering her third year of the NYCNVC Trainer Training Program.
Throughout 2007 she has co-facilitated in practice groups, at NVC Discovery Weekends and 4-Day Intensives.
Nirjhari currently has a Coaching Practice and in 2008 is co-leading an introductory practice group in Manhattan facilitating for NYCNVC Intensives.
Nirjhari holds a high value for choice, joy and learning.
Sasha Soreff - Facilitator
Sasha is committed to supporting self-expression and bringing creativity into our day to day lives. She is a choreographer, dance teacher and actor and has been studying Nonviolent Communication since 2005.
Shasha is passionate about community-oriented, participatory art making, with a focus on encouraging people to find creative expression individually and collaboratively. She is creative director of Sasha Soreff dance Theater, an intergenerational performing company that addresses connection and conflict resolution in its work and rehearsal process.
She has been inspired by the study of NVC with Marshall Rosenberg, Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Elizabeth Banner and Thom Bond. Her current NVC focus is how to use role playing to enhance our skills in navigating difficult situations.
Richard Zayas - Facilitator
Richard is a native New Yorker. He attended Fordham University and Yale Law
School. He has been licensed to practice law in the States of New York and
New Jersey since 1982.
During his legal career, Richard has served as a managing partner of several New York law firms and has concentrated in the areas of business and corporate law, civil and commercial litigation, as well as health care and non-profit law. He has also served as in-house corporate counsel with the Bristol Myers Company, the United HealthCare Group and Health Quest Systems.
In addition to his legal career, Richard is an interfaith minister and the founder of the Wind Beneath My Wings Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to help facilitate leadership and emotional intelligence training and fostering the integration of body, mind and spirit.
He currently serves as a business lawyer for individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations that have a mission of health, wellness, peace, spirituality and community building.
Richard has studied with Elizabeth Banner and Thom Bond and has completed the NYCNVC Peer Leadership program.
If there is anyone who could be considered a founder of CNVC it is Rita Herzog. In fact, Rita's dining room was the first CNVC "office." She has been working with Marshall Rosenberg since 1985 and has spent 9 of those years as the International CNVC Board President.
Over the years she has coordinated and organized Marshall's work in the US, from managing the database to editing the newsletter to developing and distributing educational materials (Including editing "Life Enriching Education" by Marshall Rosenberg). Today Rita consults with CNVC by monitoring and facilitating the trainer certification process and other trainer issues.
Rita is currently an Adjunct Professor at Lakeland Community College in Ohio as well as a visiting faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio. She started and coordinated an alternative independent school in the 70's at the height of the "free school" movement and has also been the Director of several daycare centers.
Based out of Cleveland, Rita offers trainings in the New York/New Jersey area and is committed to supporting a growing NVC community here in New York and throughout the world. As a trainer, she is known for her "Natural Giraffe" style and several of our participants describe their experience with Rita as "life shifting." We are grateful to benefit from her knowledge and facility with NVC.
Contact Rita through cnvc.org