Gabriele Grunt, Austria
In our life and work with children we have many habits that are inherited but do not serve us anymore today. In my 28 years of work in the field of education I discovered NVC as a very powerful way to consciously choose the way and quality of living and working together. Schools and families are the places where we pass on our language and our habits to the next generations – not only by teaching, but by our living example. That’s why as an NVC trainer I am passionate about sharing NVC in lectures and workshops with teachers and parents.
In many long-term projects in schools, kindergartens and universities I support the educational staff to consciously choose ways towards understanding, cooperation and peaceful conflict dialogue – and to step by step co-create structures that support partnership, mutual empowerment and inclusion in learning environments.
Giacomo Poleschi, Italy
Education, learning, parenting, community: these words got a new and clear meaning in me since I’ve learned about NVC, a few months before my first daughter was born. A fuller, concrete, practical and fun way of communicating opened up for me. Sharing NVC in education gives me hope and at the same time it connects me with life, joy and meaning.
I’ve a background in Computer Engineering and I worked in the past in the field of Supply Chain & Logistic.
In the last five years I have shared NVC in various context including groups of parents, teachers and educators, school staff, organizations.
In the everyday life I share the caring of my three children with my wife.
Marianne Göthlin, Sweden
For me education is the place where I feel most hopeful about the future. Sharing NVC with “school people” are ways for me of connecting with hope, with community, with joy and purposeful contribution. I have a background as teacher, and have integrated NVC in public schools as well as being part of starting a community school based on NVC. These experiences have led to a deepened interest in what makes change and integrating NVC in an organisation sustainable. My current engagement is to support teachers, preferably in long-term transformative school projects, and to offer pedagogical NVC materials for easy practice.
Shona Cameron, UK
I discovered NVC whilst already working in schools in the UK to make them better places for all. Very quickly I realised that NVC offered not just a blueprint for rebuilding the kind of education that worked for all but that it also enabled teachers, headteachers and policy makers to lead from their values. To work the way they always wanted to when they started teaching - to look forward to coming to school and to learn alongside the children. NVC enables meaningful and creative conversations to happen where teams can come together and a brighter future imagined. I have been sharing NVC in education since 2004 - both when I was asked to and undercover when every conversation mattered and I chose to model communication from the heart. I am a psychologist and author of a chapter in Restorative Theory in Practise, where I explore the role of NVC in school meetings.
Snežana Molnar, Bosnia & Herzegovina
As the beginning of my story on non-violent communication, I would cite 1996 when I first encountered the concept that I still apply today in my life and work. In those turbulent years, nonviolent communication was an essential need of people in our area; Understanding that fact, the management of the preschool I worked for organized nonviolent communication training for their employees.
I continued to apply the teaching of nonviolent communication for the next 15 years through my work with children in pre-school, and I like to say that I have transferred this learning to my children through education.
I began continuing education on nonviolent communication in the model of Marshall Rosenberg in 2011 when, due to personal problems, I was forced to leave work at a preschool. Yet the desire in me to pass on my knowledge and love of nonviolence to younger generations has not diminished, but I could say that it has increased.
That year I started my coaching mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is, in the village of Fakovići in Bratunac municipality. Through the years of working with the Faković children, we have made remarkable progress and I am very proud of the Faković children on the amount of love and compassion they have provided me for all these years of work and the progress they have made in connecting with themselves and others.
My trainings in this field have been followed by several certified trainers from Serbia, Germany and the Netherlands.
The mission of my life and work is to contribute to creating relationships among people that are based on compassion and connection with oneself and others. If I have managed at least one child or adult to lead the path of nonviolent communication, I consider myself a rich woman and I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to continue to do so.
Marica Lazić, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Marica Lazic is a professor and certified trainer for nonviolent communication at the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, CNVC.
For many years, she has continuously grown in nonviolent communication, modeled on Marshall Rosenberg, participating in various coaching seminars and trainings, and refining her coaching competencies.
Continuously creates and conducts seminars on nonviolent communication for primary and secondary school teachers, and uses nonviolent communication as a model for working with children and parents.
He wants to contribute to empowerment, especially educators and all other persons from different professions, who want to use non-violent communication for the benefit of themselves and others and to create relationships based on empathy and mutual connection, thus contributing to the creation of more conscious and quality relationships between people.
He believes that non-violent communication can contribute to establishing and spreading peace in the world by living more consciously and promoting universal values in society, as well as finding strategies that will help meet the needs of the individual and society, and resolve conflicts in a non-violent, creative and assertive manner.
She is a co-founder and member of the Network for Nonviolent Communication of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been operating since September 2016.