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. 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. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from University of California at Berkeley.

Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with leaders and activists. She also particularly enjoys working with and coaching people interested in learning to teach NVC.

Miki is available to lead NVC trainings and can be reached at BayNVC.

Miki has authored:

“The Pain, The Anger, and the Hope: Women Peace Workers in Israel”, Magazine of Creation Spirituality, March 1992

“Nonviolent Communication: Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection in Communities”, Communities Magazine, September 1999

“No Enemies, No Demands”, Tikkun Magazine, September-October 2002

“Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution”, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, September 2002

“The Gift of Self: The Art of Transparent Facilitation”, in Sandor Schuman, ed., The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, Jossey-Bass, 2005

“Beacon for Peace in the Promised Land: Transforming Palestinian-Israeli Relationships with Nonviolent Communication,” with Hagit Lifshitz and Arnina Kashtan, in Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, edited by Judy Kuriansky, Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2007.

Arnina Kashtan is the founder of Meitarim, the Center for NVC in Israel, which delivers workshops and trainings to individuals and groups, couples & parents, teachers & psychologists, as well as social, governmental and business organizations. In 2004 she founded the NVC Concsious Leadership bi-annual training for trainers in Israel. She has been teaching NVC since 1992 in Israel, the US and Europe, and also offers mediation, meeting facilitation, and private coaching and trainings.

The author of the first comprehensive NVC workbook in Hebrew, Arnina also specializes in developing practical materials and workshops in areas such as NVC coaching, working with anger, fear, guilt and shame, working with limiting patterns and beliefs, and parent-child relationships. A senior facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, Arnina has also developed a special path of working with needs through weaving these two modalities.

Arnina's passion and special gifts are in enhancing breakthroughs in consciousness, which are assisted by her unique approach – a profound, laser-like exploration into our innermost core, supported by a rare sense of humor, and embedded in deep, embracing empathy.

Arnina has appeared in numerous radio and TV programs in Israel, and interviewed in leading magazines. She is now editing Marshall's first book in Hebrew, to be published in March; her second poetry book (in Hebrew) is to be published this year, and she holds a B.A. in Music from Tel-Aviv University.

She is available to lead NVC trainings in English and Spanish, and can be reached at info@meitarim.com

"Arnina, thank you for your full, loving, sensitive and attentive leadership. Thank you for the heart, the laughter, the pure intention. Thank you for being".