John
has offered communication and conflict resolution
to people around the world, including work
with Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani
border in early 2002. John specializes in
NVC mediation as a spiritual practice, and
over the past 7 years he has co-developed
with colleague Ike Lasater NVC mediation training
that now includes 5-day residential retreats
and year-long immersion programs in the U.S.,
Europe, and Australia. He has been a trainer
of the Center for Nonviolent Communication
(CNVC)since 2000 and is a co-founder of the
Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC). He has
studied and worked closely with NVC founder
Marshall Rosenberg since 1998 and has been
regularly invited by him to be a staff trainer
at 9-day international intensive trainings.
John
has mediated conflicts on just about every
level of human relationship, including couples,
family, community, business, legal contexts
and institutions. In organizations he has
had particular experience with family businesses.
John's mediation practice has included an
entire graduate faculty of the University
of California at Los Angeles, the Executive
vice Chancellor and all the vice chancellors
at another UC system university, numerous
family businesses, families with inheritance
issues, faculty and administration in alternative
schools, personal and business partnershipdissolutions,
and individuals and groups desiring conflict
coaching and communication training support.
John's
professional background is in academic psychology
and psychotherapy, particularly in Carl Rogers'
study of empathic listening, congruence, and
unconditional positive regard, and also Mahatma
Gandhi's life and work applying nonviolence
to social change. John received his B.A. from
the University of San Francisco, where he
majored in studies of psychology and philosophy
and played for their nationally ranked soccer
team. He went on to receive an M.S. degree
in clinical psychology from Penn State University,
spending 5 years of doctoral training working
as a psychotherapist with individuals and
groups, and as a research assistant at the
Penn State Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute.
After graduate school, John helped start and
develop a small business in the gourmet food
industry, and then went on start two NVC businesses.
John lives with his wife and three children
in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information
about NVC see www.baynvc.org,
www.cnvc.org,
and www.nonviolentcommunication.com.
