Meet our co-facilitators
Pat Arcady
Shivani Gail Carroll
J Kendel Johnson
Paul Merrill
Shoshi Morginn
Teresa Rose
Pat Arcady
Pat Arcady completed the first BayNVC Leadership Training
in 2001 and has attended numerous residential and weekend retreats throughout the country, including several with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg. In 2003, she began teaching NVC workshops in the New England area and hosted a weekly practice group for five years. Currently, she is a third-year participant in NVC Mediation’s yearlong immersion program. Pat recently launched Arcady Mediation, a consulting practice that draws on her 33+ years of management and training experience and specializes in mediation services, customized conflict resolution coaching, and trainings for leaders of small businesses and nonprofits. She coaches leaders on how to have the sorts of “challenging conversations” that increase the levels of alignment, collaboration and partnership throughout their organizations. As a speaker and trainer, Pat enjoys delivering highly interactive workshops that are designed to offer the challenge of skill development and personal growth while also offering the support needed to take such risks. For more about Pat, visit arcadymediation.com.
Shivani Gail Carroll
Shivani Gail Carroll began teaching NVC in 2006, when she began using the transformative power of compassion as the foundation of her practice and teaching. Shivani studied NVC Mediation with John Kinyon in 2008 and has completed two rounds of John and Ike Lasater’s yearlong NVC Mediation training. She offers individual clients and couples NVC empathy and mediation through her private practice in the Boston area. As someone committed to the spiritual practices of meditation and seeing humanity in all, Shivani values NVC as a strategy for bringing this part of herself into her relationships and conflicts. She especially enjoys sharing/teaching from her experiences using NVC with her partner, Paul, and her teenaged daughter, Gemma.
J Kendel Johnson
J Kendel Johnson has been studying, practicing and supporting the growth of NVC since 2004 and began training with John Kinyon in 2008. In 2010, J completed NVC Mediation’s yearlong immersion program with John and Ike Lasater; later that year, he became a member of the training team for the Heartland immersion program. J has also studied directly with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg, as well as Miki Kashtan, Raj Gill, Jeff Brown, and Karsten Schacht-Petersen. A founding member of NVC-DFW, J facilitates classes, workshops and practice groups in schools, spiritual communities, and wellness facilities. He also provides mediation for individuals and groups seeking compassionate resolution to conflict. More recently, J has enjoyed putting his TV producer skills to work for NVC Mediation. For more about J, read this interview.
Shoshi Morginn
Shoshi Morginn’s heart was broken open in 2003 when she first read Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication and realized what had been lost and what is at stake in how we communicate with each other. As a first-year participant in the 2008 West Coast immersion program, she began organizing additional NVC trainings in California. She has since assisted Ike Lasater and John Kinyon in other NVC Mediation trainings around the country. Shoshi brings a degree in psychology and 18 years experience as a cardiac intensive care nurse to her work as a facilitator, health consultant, and NVC mediator. Since 1985, she has specialized in aspects of sexuality, emotional intimacy, and transformative conflict resolution. She uses traditional energy medicine to support her own health and vitality and to offer stress management and recovery for women, children and combat veterans. Shoshi draws on the wisdom of her own and other Indigenous Elders who show, by their living example, how to be real human beings. She likes to point out how, in the native culture of her ancestors, NVC is referred to as cante ista (chantey-eesh’tah) or hearing/speaking through the heart. Shoshi lives in the diverse and increasingly conscious community of Mount Shasta, California, with her devoted and enduring partner, Jerry, and little dog, Kola. For more about Shoshi, read this interview or visit www.linkedin.com/in/
Paul Merrill
Paul Merrill’s study of NVC began 10 years ago. He attended Bay Area NVC’s Leadership Program in 2005 and began teaching for Brooklyn NVC, where he was a founding board member. Paul has since assisted in NVC trainings in Belgium and Poland.
An artist and a father, Paul enjoys sharing NVC skills for use in personal relationships, families and internal dialogues. He is currently a trainer with NVC Boston. For more about Paul, read this interview.
Teresa Rose
Teresa Rose’s passion for nonviolent communication was stirred when she became a parent. She began her mediation practice “in the trenches” with her three children. She cares deeply about how best to deal with conflict within a family, how to make sure everyone can be heard and know they matter, and how to bring peace. As a strategy for bringing more love and connection to the world, she is committed to mindfulness and self-connection practice. Teresa has offered nonviolent communication and mediation teachings to teens, parents, schoolteachers, life coaches, and other NVC trainers. A credentialed high school teacher, certified life coach, and certified enneagram teacher, Teresa also works as a mediator within her local school district. Read more about Teresa’s perspective here.