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Speakers
Yvette Erasmus
Yvette Erasmus is a clinical psychologist, podcast host, and founder of The School of Human Connection. She integrates attachment science, nervous system regulation, and nonviolent communication to help individuals and communities build relational integrity in polarized times. Through her teaching, writing, and her podcast Conversations from the Heart, Yvette explores how to protect human dignity without losing our humanity. Her work centers on relational courage, protective boundaries, and the practice of returning non-love with love.
Jessica Eastman
Jessica Eastman Stewart helps people get organized at work and home. Through her online and in-person workshops and courses, she helps leaders create professional and personal systems to increase productivity, joy, and ease across all aspects of their lives. She’s been featured in Real Simple, Forbes, and Woman’s Day magazine. She lives in the Bay Area with her family and remains deeply committed to supporting the people who do the hard work of strengthening our communities.
Megan Griffith
Megan Griffith (she/they) is a shame oracle. She came to this profession through a lifetime of deep, chronic, and debilitating shame of her own. She's tried everything to cope with her long list of mental health struggles, but nothing has helped nearly as much as simply...acknowledging how much shame she feels about everything. Once she could admit what the problem was, the answers became much more readily available. Answers like EFT tapping, singing her heart out, and so much more. When she's not working, you can usually find her dying her hair or playing with her three young kids.
Elia Paz
Elia is the founder of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (MCD) - a comprehensive system and map that describes the process and skills necessary for cultivating thriving relationships. You can learn more about MCD through Elia’s podcasts, blog and recently published books - Life-serving boundaries and Creating a Fulfilling Relationship. She has been serving as a trainer and guide for over 20 years. Her journey includes a graduate degree in psychology, meditation practice, certification as a trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and in-depth training in somatic approaches to therapy.
Matthew Green
Matthew Green is a co-host of What Is Collective Healing? a podcast presented by the Pocket Project exploring how people from diverse cultures are pioneering new ways to heal collective and inter-generational trauma. Matthew previously spent 14 years as an international correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters, reporting from across Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has since trained as a collective trauma facilitator with Thomas HĂĽbl. He writes Resonant World, a newsletter serving the global healing movement, and co-founded the Resonant Man international men's initiative, developing a new vision of scared masculinity in the context of the metacrisis.
Aya Capsi
Aya Caspi brings her unique blend of vision, practical clarity, and deep commitment to the transformative power of Nonviolent Communication to settings as varied as schools, parenting, mediation, nonprofit organizations, social change communities, and media. Aya has served as an educational consultant on several preschool series, creating original curricula and advising on show development and scripting. Aya has been sharing the work of NVC internationally via online classes and in-person retreats. She continually grapples with the joys and challenges of being raised in Israel and finds deep open hope in applying NVC to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rodger Sorrow
Rodger Sorrow is a Certified Trainer and Assessor for The Center for Nonviolent Communication and founder of Choose Connection. He brings an abundance of knowledge and skills from education and experience combined with enthusiasm and compassion.
Rodger's style blends authenticity, laughter and play with learning. He shares his love of the outdoors through a class at SBCC’s School of Extended Learning, 'Nature and Self-Healing'. As an Assessor with CNVC, he accompanies certification candidates in their shared journey of learning, living and sharing NVC. Rodger is available for private sessions with individuals, couples, families, and customized trainings for groups and organizations.
Elkie Deadman
Born in London in 1956 and have lived in the Netherlands since the age of 25. Background in dance and experimental theatre. Came to Nonviolent Communication through a search inspired by the Buddhist 8 fold path. Started my NVC journey in 2008. Certified in 2013. Greatly inspired by the work of Miki Kashtan. Moved by the vision of Miki Kashtan and A'ida Shibli that lays at the foundation of the Women In White. It was a pull to a different sort of action in the world for me to which I am fully committed.
Alexis Haselberger
Alexis Haselberger is a time management, productivity and stress reduction coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops and online courses. Her pragmatic, irreverent, approach helps people easily integrate realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don't. Alexis has taught over 240,000 people to take control of their time and her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, Upwork and more.
Constance Washburn
Constance Washburn MA - a facilitator, educator, coach, community organizer and community Dharma leader. brings people together to experience the depth of their interconnection to the web of life to regenerate and co-create visions and actions to meet the needs of participants, their communities and Earth. She is currently co-director of the Spiral Journey- a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects and on the core Weavers Team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She was a founding member of the Elders Action Network and she developed and facilitates a webinar course Embracing Elderhood on Behalf of Life.
Veronica Monet
As an Internal Family Systems Trained (IFS) Relationship Coach, Certified Sexologist, Anger Specialist and Trained Rape and Domestic Violence Counselor, Veronica Monet brings a rich array of expertise to her coaching practice. And as a sex positive activist she has been featured on a variety of platforms including CNN, FOX, Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect, Yale, Stanford and the New York Times. Her first book, Sex Secrets of Escorts (Penguin 2005) has been translated into four languages. Her memoir is in the works.
Veronica also enjoys film-making and is the Creative Consultant for the award-winning documentary, Love Over Money (2024).
