This event, IIT India 2024, is enriched by an international trainers team with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and focus areas, Each member of the training team is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and will bring the IIT curriculum to you, with their own unique flavouring.
Let’s get to know them!
Stephanie Bachmann Mattei (United States)
Certified Trainer, Assessor and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher
Stephanie Bachmann Mattei is a Certified Trainer and Assessor with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher with the Center for Mindfulness at the University of California, San Diego, and an affiliated teacher with the Right Use of PowerTM Institute. She holds a research degree in philosophy from the Universita’ Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Co-author of The Heart of Nonviolent Communication: 25 Keys to Shift from Separation to Connection, Stephanie travels the globe to share her understanding of Nonviolent Communication . She weaves mindfulness into all her teachings, and also offers Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses as a path to cultivate the natural human capacity for compassionate presence.
Stephanie’s organizational trainings in Right Use of PowerTM raise awareness of the power dynamics intrinsic in all relationships and share a heartfelt approach to power.
Stephanie is the mother of three children, biological and adopted. She loves to stroll on Florida beaches, travel back home to Italy with her family, cook Italian meals with her husband, and pet her cats.
Frank Gaschler (Germany)
Certified Trainer and Assessor
Frank is a CNVC Certified Trainer and Assessor in the certification process of the CNVC.
His current passion revolves around 4 life themes: To be welcome without having to do anything for it; To have a space for which I can also stand up; To be held in trust instead of having to control, and; To be alive instead of fulfilling others’ life dreams.
Frankl’s passion is to experiment with NVC outside the box, far away from the boundaries of words and language. Therefore he likes to concentrate on intuition, empathic presence and body language.
His social change project “Giraffe Dream” aims at introducing and spreading NVC in kindergartens and primary schools. This program has become the biggest social change project in this field.
Frank with Gundi, my wife, near Munich, Germany.
Manasi Saxena (India)
Certified Trainer and Board Member, Center for Nonviolent Communication; Founder-Director, enCOMPASSion
Manasi is a learning facilitator whose focus lies around the intersection of personal growth and community development. Manasi has worked with individuals, small groups, and and organisations, including Peace Corps Nepal, UNHCR Delhi, Institute for Social Democracy, Welthungerhilfe India, Save the Children India, Manzil, Katkatha, and others. Manasi is also the Founder-CEO of enCOMPASSion Foundation, a social venture that focuses on cultivating capacities of compassion, resilience, and interdependence through community development and learning programmes based on Nonviolent Communication. In addition to this, Manasi has field experience with emergency relief in the aftermath of the Delhi communal riots, and during the Covid migrant crisis in India.
Manasi’s core focus is to work closely with communities at the grassroots, with a vision of fostering a paradigm of sustainability, collaboration and resilience through community-driven social change. She offers her skills in multiple spheres – in facilitation of groups, in project management, in working with her own team as well as larger groups, in conflict transformation, mediation, and leadership, systems change, and DEI capacity building for individuals, groups, and organisations.
Manasi is a graduate of the University of Delhi and holds an M.Phil. from JNU, New Delhi.
Martha Lasley (United States)
Certified Nonviolent Communication TrainerMartha is a founding partner of the Authentic Communication Group where she facilitates small groups who practice Nonviolent Communication. In addition to NVC, she integrates Internal Family Systems, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Here and Now Process Work. She founded Leadership that Works, where she trained transformational coaches and facilitators for 25 years. Today she works with changemakers and social activists to develop compelling visions, improve communications, bring spirit into team building, and develop an inspiring feedback culture. Martha loves to explore power dynamics, anti-oppression, unlearning isms, and deepen our collective liberatory consciousness.She has authored three books: Coaching for Transformation; Facilitating with Heart; and Courageous Visions. Martha is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication and has been a trainer at many International Intensive Trainings with Marshall Rosenberg.
Martha coaches visionary leaders and teams to transform organizations and develop a culture of collaboration, authenticity and mutual support. She is a professional member of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS). Martha has presented several programs at Kripalu, Omega Institute, and the International Association of Facilitators.
Mironel de Wilde (Nepal)
Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer
Mironel is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). He began his life in the world as an environmental activist in Canada, passionate about social change issues. As he saw that at the heart of our human challenges is consciousness, he went on to study various forms of spiritual and personal growth and took yoga and meditation seriously from 2001. His first contact with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in 2014 changed his life perspective. It brought a holistic view on personal and social change by including the emotions and ego in the process. He has been living and sharing NVC since then. Mironel strives to live in full authenticity, compassion and empowerment.
He is now based in Nepal working to train trainers for NVC in schools, mediation and counseling. He is also a film-maker and meditation teacher.
Excited to join us?
For more information, please connect directly with Kunal and the Organising Teeam at india-iit-2024-organizer@cnvc.org!