John Kinyon 

About John Kinyon

CNVC Certified Trainer from El Sobrante, California, USA

  • NVC Mediation
  • Training Programs
  • Conflict Coaching

Email: nvcmediation@johnkinyon.com Website www.johnkinyon.com
Tel: 510-222-5574

John Kinyon has offered communication and conflict resolution to people around the world, including work with Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in early 2002. John specializes in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and particularly in NVC mediation -- applying the language, skills and principles of NVC to the process of mediating conflict within oneself, with others, and supporting others who are in conflict. Over the past 7 years, he has co-developed with colleague Ike Lasater NVC mediation training that now includes 5-day residential retreats and year-long immersion programs in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. He has been a trainer of the international Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2000 and is a co-founder of the Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC). He has studied and worked closely with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg since 1998 and has been regularly invited by him to be a staff trainer at 9-day international intensive trainings. John’s emphasis within this work is developing principles and practices for NVC and mediation as a spiritual practice.

John has mediated conflicts on just about every level of human relationship, including couples, family, community, business, legal contexts and institutions. In organizations he has had particular experience with small and family businesses. John’s mediation practice has included an entire graduate faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, the Executive vice Chancellor and all the vice chancellors at another UC system university, numerous small and family businesses, families with inheritance issues, faculty and administration in alternative schools, personal and business partnership dissolutions, and individuals and groups desiring conflict coaching and communication training support.

John’s professional background is in academic psychology and psychotherapy, particularly Carl Rogers’ study of empathic listening, genuineness, unconditional positive regard and life’s “actualizing tendency” for growth and healing, and also Mahatma Gandhi’s life and work applying nonviolence to social change. John received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, where he majored in studies of psychology and philosophy and played for their nationally ranked soccer team. He went on to receive an M.S. degree in clinical psychology from Penn State University, spending 5 years of doctoral training working as a psychotherapist with individuals and groups, and as a research assistant at the Penn State Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute. After graduate school, John helped start and develop a small business in the gourmet food industry, and then went on start two NVC businesses. John lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information about NVC see www.baynvc.org,
www.cnvc.org, and
Puddle Dancer Press .

Take the Leap: Upgrade
Your Mediation Skills!

Intermediate NVC Mediation
A Telephone Course with Trainer John Kinyon
An 8-week series in a small group setting.

Sharpen your skills at resolving inner conflicts, and interpersonal differences in both formal and informal settings.

8 consecutive Tuesdays, September 14 - November 2, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)

Fee: $325.00 USD
Course limited to 12 participants to maximize participation and connection.


“John Kinyon is one of our trainers of Nonviolent Communication and someone in whom I have a great deal of trust and confidence. John in my experience has a special gift for facilitating empathic understanding and communication between people. I highly endorse John's skills and abilities with Nonviolent Communication, and I strongly recommend him to anyone needing help resolving a conflict situation.” - Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., founder of Nonviolent Communication

Take this class and you will enjoy experiential learning and skill-building practice with the mediation model of NVC and its application to conflict in all types of situations - from organizational and community to personal relationships - in four mediation contexts:

  • Internal
  • Interpersonal
  • Informal
  • Formal

Overview

This class is for people who have already taken an introductory NVC mediation workshop with John Kinyon, Ike Lasater, Jim Manske, or Jori Manske. With a more experienced group the practice and learning starts at an advanced level!

The Intermediate NVC Mediation Telecourse provides a format of improvised triad role-plays and group harvesting of the learning. In the role plays, you have a chance to be in the role of mediator, disputant and observer, and to receive invaluable learning and in-the-moment feedback and coaching.

You can then move into the mediator’s chair and put into practice what you’ve just learned! The same learning structure will be used as in the Foundations of NVC Mediation training; however, in this series there will be an opportunity to practice with more experienced participants and to work with more challenging role plays.

In terms of content, more complex, fluid, and subtle applications of the mediation model emerge as the learning and connection with fellow participants deepens.


“At a time of escalated tensions and unexpressed concerns, John's experience and inspirational style with NVC helped to facilitate a reconnection between the principles of the business. After the breakdown in communication, his skills helped create a stronger foundation of trust and empathy, where each person could be heard. This enabled us to move ahead into a creative dynamic process of strategies and goal setting for the company.” - Selma Aslin and Tehra Braren, business owner and company director

Class Schedule:
Tuesdays, September 14 - November 2, 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT

September 14, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
September 21, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
September 28, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
October 5, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
October 12, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
October 19, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
October 26, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
November 2, 2010 • 4:00 - 6:00 PM PDT (11:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?

Prerequisites: This class series is for people who have already taken an introductory NVC mediation workshop with John Kinyon, Ike Lasater, Jim Manske, or Jori Manske.

Fee: $325.00 USD
Course limited to 12 participants to maximize participation and connection.

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