Meet our Training and Support Team!
Jim and Jori Manske, Rodger Sorrow, Kathi Aichner, Faye Landey and Sherri Boles-Rogers
Jori and Jim Manske, principals of peaceworks, are CNVC certified trainers and certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP), mediation, and facilitation.
Married for over 30 years, they share the intentions to cooperate together in the great adventure of life, openly and honestly share their deepest thoughts and feelings, and honor and accept each other with ever-increasing ability. These intentions continue to frame not only their relationship together, but also all their relationships and work.
Currently Jim and Jori live in Albuquerque, NM. They were co-founders of the NM Network for NVC and co-leaders of the CNVC Global Community Circle (GCC). Jori served on the CNVC Board of Directors and as the Interim Director of CNVC. She currently serves on the Board of Comienzos, a restorative jail project.
Jim and Jori offer training, consulting, and mentoring in mediation, financial sustainability, power dynamics, facilitation, organizational transformation, as well as integrating NVC. They serve businesses, community groups, government agencies, NGO's, private groups and individuals, and have supported various emerging NVC communities worldwide. They remain eager to discover new ways of supporting conflict resolution and collaboration, and offer training and a free practice group through NVC Academy. To connect more with Jori and Jim, explore their website, RadicalCompassion.com.
Rodger Sorrow is a certified trainer for The Center for Nonviolent Communication and co-founder of Choose Connection. He brings an abundance of knowledge and skills from education, training and experience combined with enthusiasm and compassion.
His leadership experience includes: Director of Treatment for the Drug Rehabilitation Program for the Thirteenth Naval District of the United States Navy, Asst. Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State California, Consultant to Western Washington University's Multi Ethnic Cross Cultural Awareness training of staff for the Dept of Social Health Services for the State of Washington, and District Executive for the Boy Scouts of America where he taught consensus and community building leadership skills for 10 years.
Rodger's style combines humor, laughter and play with learning. He shares his love of the outdoors through a Santa Barbara City College Continuing Education class, 'Nature, Hiking and Self-Healing', a true adventure in self-discovery. Current projects include sharing NVC with the men in a residential substance abuse program and bringing NVC into the Cesar Chavez Charter School. He is also working with the folks at a local homeless shelter and the Santa Barbara County Jail. Rodger is available for private sessions with individuals, couples, families, and training with groups and organizations.
Kathi Aichner writes, "I came alive and got excited in late 1998 when I read Dr. Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication; A Language of Life. I was unaware at that time that essentially, all my life, I had been looking for a way to move away from judgment and blame. NVC has supplied me with the tools and information I needed to be able to make this move. My life changed significantly and I celebrate this huge shift in myself. With this shift I discovered peace within myself.
My favorite quote regarding NVC comes from Leo Sofer (CT, UK). NVC is "using precision in language to gain a deeper connection with myself". And learning the value and seeing the significant benefits of open, honest expressing shared in a way others can hear has led me to warm, loving relationships. I have chosen to spend the rest of my life sharing this precision with others. It brings me joy supporting others in their journeys towards peace.
I am a mother of two, grandmother of one, and a published author. I have offered over 950 hours of training and support with NVC over the last 9 years.
Faye Landey says she always had an unconscious notion that there is great wisdom and knowledge to found in the depth of the inner personal experience of each human being. It was through learning the concepts of self empathy and awareness of what NVC calls "needs consciousness" that brought her to discover and appreciate life, relationships, and herself.
A participant in blazing the path for women's equality in the work force in the sixties, Faye comes out of a corporate environment that focused on success often at the expense of others. Today she advocates a new way to navigate through the world so that every one's humanness is valued.
Emerging from her experience with CL08, and as a intern with CL09, Faye joins the team in 2010 with enthusiasm to offer a rich growing environment for each participant to discover inner wisdom and natural competence.
Faye is a Certified Trainer with The Center for Nonviolent Communication. She is cofounder and Board Member of the Georgia Network for Nonviolent Communication. She especially enjoys conflict resolution offering NVC to adults who have influence in the lives of children . . . in whose hands our future resides. Faye enjoys opera and classical music, and as a former marathon runner she delights in training others for distance running.
Sherri Boles-Rogers has been a student of Nonviolent Communication since her first workshops with Marshall Rosenberg in 2003 and some of her earliest trainings were with Jim and Jori Manske. In 2007, she became a graduate of the Center for Nonviolent Communication's Parent Peer Leadership Program, part of the Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project.
Sherri’s passion is working with parents and families. As a working mother of two boys, ages 11 and 9, she knows firsthand about the challenges of integrating NVC consciousness into daily hectic family life. In her work with parents, her goal is to provide awareness, understanding, and support to move away from “power over” strategies with children and move into “power with” relationships based on mutual respect and trust.
Sherri's NVC facilitation experience has included practice groups, workshops for parents and teachers, and an NVC-based residential retreat for women. She is most grateful to her children, who provide her with endless opportunities for practice. She is a founding Board member of the Georgia Network for Nonviolent Communication.