Photos above show trainers of prior NY IRTs.

"I am delighting in the new connections I have made. This has started to help me meet my needs for celebration, for hope, for closeness, and for growth, healing, laughter, joy, fun and love. Each time someone in our large group expressed a need or concern, the trainers almost always showed concern and caring in spite of time constraints. This met my need for learning through example and the experience of inclusion. Thank you!"

- Padma, NYI 2006

"...appreciation that I risked sharing my deep sorrow, grief and vulnerability and was heard; appreciation that I approached individuals to request and initiate one on one sessions and my need for self-care was responded to."

- Jayne, NYI 2006

Bios of our dynamic trainers and support team members are below. We will add info about new members of our training team as they are selected.

Trainers

	Dominic Barter: Dominic Barter has studied the interface between societal and personal change, and the role of conflict, since the 1980s. He has taught restorative practices internationally for the last 11 years. Since 2004 he has been consultant and training program director to the UN Development Program and UNESCO for the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education and Special Secretariat for Human Rights' pilot projects in Restorative Justice (RJ) in Brazil. Dominic coordinates the RJ Project for the international Center for Nonviolent Communication. Return to top.
	Anne Bourrit: Anne has behind her fifteen years of practice in various institutions in Switzerland, France, Belgium and Quebec, as well as in Africa, where she has been actively training people in NVC. She considers herself lucky to be able to practice and share a working tool which is both simple and efficient when learning to listen to ourselves and to others, with the aim of discovering the beauty which is hidden behind certain attitudes that foster or create misunderstandings. Within a society where crisis and stress seem to predominate for many of us, she is passionately involved in finding creative solutions which lead to a better understanding between people. Return to top.
	Miki Kashtan: Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, and the NVC North America Leadership Program. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads workshops and intensive retreats in Nonviolent Communication and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, and training for organizations throughout the United States and internationally. She has been supporting the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls since 2005. From time to time she hosts a call-in show on the radio through KPFA, a listener-sponsored radio station in Berkeley, CA. Return to top.
	Martha Lasley: Martha’s work focuses on integrating NVC in organizations – coaching leaders and social change activists to develop a compelling vision, improve interpersonal communications, bring spirit into team building, and facilitate change. Martha’s passion is working with visionary leaders using Nonviolent Communication to surface group wisdom. She has presented several programs at the annual conference for International Association of Facilitators, and wrote, “Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passion in Your Life and Your Organization.” She wrote an article about using NVC in organizations available at http://leadershipthatworks.com/newsite/static_page.php?page=articles. Return to top.

Support Team (more bios coming soon)

	Jane Connor: Jane has been passionate about NVC and its role in furthering connection between people and groups since 2003, when she attended her first NVC training, a 9-day International Intensive Training (IIT) organized by the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Inspired by this experience, she founded the Southern Tier Center for Compassionate Communication in Binghamton, NY and enrolled in the Bay NVC North American Leadership Training Program during both 2004 and 2005. Recognizing the need for more opportunities for the kind of transformational experience she was fortunate to receive in 2003 at the IIT, she founded the New York Intensive Residential Training in NVC in 2004. She also began teaching NVC at Binghamton University, where she is Associate Professor of Human Development. She observed that many of her students were hungry for material and examples showing the applicability of NVC to the specifics of their lives, and co-authored Connecting Across Differences: A Guide to Compassionate, Nonviolent Communication to meet that need with Dian Killian in 2004. Return to top.
	Shana Deane: Shana brings diverse experience and skills to her sharing of Nonviolent Communication. A graduate of the 2007 NVC North America Leadership Training Program, since 2005 she has completed over 500 hours of NVC training, has assisted at the annual NVC Living Peace retreat; is an Associate Trainer with BrooklynNVC, and is pursuing Certification with the global Center for Nonviolent Communication. She has also completed training in NY State Mediation, Restorative Justice Circle Facilitation, and is currently enrolled in a Master's degree program in Restorative Practices. A native New Yorker, she is particularly passionate about bringing NVC to elementary & middle schools in NYC. In addition to her background in NVC, Shana has worked in the creative arts as an actor, writer and videographer; and is a long time student of yoga and tai chi. She also volunteers as a doula companion to the dying and is a new and passionate student of Vipassana meditation. Shana is very interested in living/learning intentional communities and is filled with gratitude to be able to support and contribute to this year's NY IRT.
	Kristen Masters: Kristin Masters is a woman committed to creating a world that works for everyone. She has long been a facilitator and trainer, and loves helping groups find ways to move toward the goals of their good work more easily. She is currently engaged in learning, teaching and sharing compassionate communication, and is working toward certification as an NVC trainer through CNVC. She is part of the core group of trainers at NVC Santa Cruz, where she considers herself extremely lucky to live and share NVC in collaboration and community. Kristin’s training includes NVCSC’s Integration programs, an IIT in 2007, participation in Robert Gonzalez’ LIFE program 2008, mediation training from John Kinyon and a plethora of other learnings. Before NVC, she trained community mediators for 15 years, and is thrilled to engage in the flourishing of restorative justice. As a trainer in diversity issues, Kristin believes that we can heal the hurts we’ve suffered in our domination society, the hurts of institutionalized oppression and those we’ve internalized as jackals. She joined and led her local chapter of NCBI, training people to take action in the face of oppression in their lives and communities, and worked beside Lillian Roybal Rose for the past five years. She anticipates great joy in the future of applying NVC to social change and healing, particularly around developing ourselves as allies. (see http://www.antiracism.com/overview.html for info on white ally learning labs.) She also utilizes the Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy’s empowerment through despair practices, in supporting us in facing up to the state of our world and feeling the exhilaration of serving the future by mourning and taking action. Kristin hopes to support learning and community building by assisting at both the IRT and Diversity Intensives, and hopes for meaningful meetings with each of you who come.
	Rachel Monde. Rachel has been a trainer in a variety of fields since she was 15 years old. She has studied and practiced “hearing, speaking and thinking peace” intensely since 2005, and is on the CNVC Trainer Certification track. Empathic connection and understanding is the foundation of Rachel’s Peace Coaching based on “Nonviolent Communication” (NVC). Also, if wanted, she incorporates the awareness of Eckhart Tolle, Carl Jung, Byron Kate, “Abraham” and Louise Hay; the psycho-neuro-immunology connection. Rachel brings her own gifts to her work: deep caring, humour, and a passion for NVC, personal growth and nurturing hope. This has lead her to create innovative workshop curriculum, exercises and processes such as “Mourning vs. Depression”, “Connecting with your Core Aliveness”, “A Meditation: Being Hugged by a ‘Need’”, “NVC & Enlightenment”, “Self Empathy; Understanding & Acceptance” and “Connecting with your Inner ‘Jackal’ & ‘Giraffe’”. She particularly loves offering private sessions, both with individuals and leaders, supporting others on their own unique path. Rachel’s life premise is that it is possible to enrich our lives with ourselves and with others and to enrich the lives of those around us. I am really looking forward to connecting, supporting, playing and exploring together at the Intensive - see you there!