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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.
