Kathleen Macferran is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC, http://www.cnvc.org). She has offered Nonviolent Communication training to schools, community groups, churches, hospitals, families, correctional officers, and prison inmates. She is one of the trainers for the Freedom Project, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. In addition to working with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Kathleen founded and was the Music Director of the Rainier Chamber Winds from 1990-2008. Kathleen views the music ensemble as a metaphor for social organization since the well-being of one individual clearly depends on the well-being of all. 

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a practical, learnable process for communicating with empathy, honesty, power and compassion. It integrates personal development with social change. The purpose of NVC is to ensure everyone's needs are valued equally and fulfilled in ways that contribute to connection, harmony and peace. It develops people's ability to listen to and transform blame, anger and criticism into respectful, constructive communication, and to resolve conflicts peacefully.

About Sylvia Haskvitz
Sylvia Haskvitz , MA, RD, has been in the field of education since she was thirteen tutoring pre-teens. As an adult she taught in public, private and charter schools in San Francisco and Tucson and taught foreign language in after school programs. She enjoys developing learning activities that support joyful learning through experimentation with creativity and nature. She has offered NVC trainings in many education departments and school settings across the country. Sylvia has co-facilitated Teach for Life, an annual NVC inspired five day Educators Institute.

She has been a certified trainer with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication since 1989 and has planted the seeds of compassion in numerous communities throughout the U.S. She is the dean of Educational Services for Elucity Network, Inc. bringing NVC to organizations and businesses throughout the world.