About Liv Larssen

Liv Larsson is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and has worked as a coach and consultant in her own company since 1992, working to support individuals, groups and managers to reach their goals of living in harmony with their own values The people and groups she has worked with range from activists (people working for social change) to school and health care groups. Working mostly in Sweden, she works with mediation and also conducts longer training programs in NVC. However, she also continously work in Estonia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Finland, Poland and Austria.

Liv lives in the north of Sweden (when she is not travelling) and is the mother of Neo, who will soon be four. The author of four books on communication, her most recent book "Mediation with Nonviolent Communication" addresses third-party mediation work according to the principles of Nonviolent Communication.

"What I enjoy about working with people and communication is that I so often get to be part of the big decisions and steps that people take in their lives. It nurtures me a lot to see what people can accomplish with their lives, once they start caring for themselves and others. It's the most fantastic thing I can think of doing!"

Some of the places and groups she has worked with include: Inter-religious Network for Peace, Mahidol University Research Center for Peace, Peace and Culture Foundation , (Thailand); Sandhi, Nonviolent Peaceforce (Sri Lanka); European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU) (Austria); Intelligentne Ettevõtte Grupp OÜ (Estonia); Dojrzewalnia.pl/ (Poland).

Liv is available to lead NVC trainings and can be reached at Friare Liv.

About Mary Mackenzie

Mary Mackenzie is a certified NVC trainer, the executive director of the Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication and co-founder of the NVC Academy. She holds a masters degree in Human Relations and is a trained mediator and member of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association.

Mary is the author of Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion which was published in 2005.

Mary's first career was as a fundraiser in higher education, where her listening skills helped people realize their dreams and helped her raise millions of dollars for the universities where she worked. In these development positions, Mary saw herself as a bridge between the donor and the recipient, always seeking and finding solutions that were satisfying to all parties.

She ended this fifteen-year career to begin work with the newly-formed Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication, where she has been executive director since January 2004.

Mary's guiding vision is to help people fully connect to themselves and their world so that they may experience more joy. Toward this end, she teaches Nonviolent Communication to children, adults, families, couples, and adolescents, and she works with organizations by offering individual or group workshops and facilitating organization-wide restructuring.