About John

John has mediated conflicts and offered communication and conflict resolution skills training to thousands of people around the world, including work with Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in early 2002. John specializes in NVC mediation and has co-developed over the past 7 years a training program that includes international multi-day workshops, residential retreats and year-long immersion programs in the U.S., Europe, and Australia-New Zealand. He has been a trainer of the 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 is regularly invited by him to be a staff trainer at 9-day international intensive trainings. John also specializes in NVC 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 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 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.