About Mary Mackenzie

Mary Mackenzie is a certified CNVC trainer, the executive director of the Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication and co-founder of the NVC Academy. She holds a master’s degree in Human Relations and is a trained mediator and member of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association.

Mary is the author of "Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion".

Mary’s first career was as a fundraiser in higher education, where her listening skills helped people realize their dreams and helped her raise millions of dollars for the universities where she worked. She ended this fifteen-year career to begin work with the newly-formed Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication.

Mary’s guiding vision is to help people fully connect to themselves and their world so that they may experience more joy. Toward this end, she teaches Nonviolent Communication to children, adults, families, couples, and adolescents, and she works with organizations by offering individual or group workshops and facilitating organization-wide restructuring.

Kathleen Macferran is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and offers Nonviolent Communication (NVC) 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 has been the Music Director of the Rainier Chamber Winds for the past 16 years. Kathleen views the music ensemble as a wonderful metaphor for social organization since the well being of one individual clearly depends on the well being of all.

Kathleen offers trainings in concrete skills of nonviolence leading to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones and the community.