My journey from anger to pea​ce

When I was 8, I discovered the UN and was instantly in awe. An organization whose mission was to create peace in the world? Yes please. I decided then and there that I would work there one day.

A couple of decades later, I had lost sight of that dream somewhere along the way and was building a career in IT. The work lacked meaning, nothing in my education had prepared me to navigate relationships at work, and my frustration was growing.

Then I found myself in a Nonviolent Communication workshop — and something shifted. I remember it vividly. What struck me immediately was how Nonviolent Communication embraces our humanity: it normalizes the fact that we have judgments and helps us see them as signals telling us something is off.

I dove in. I started with an eight session training, realized I couldn’t stop talking about it and decided to integrate an intentional regular practice, before going on a nine-month training that led me to become a conflict resolution coach and mediator.

I can now move from anger to peace, consciously. And so can you.

NVC has changed my life — at work, and in my personal life, which if I'm honest, has been the harder frontier (and still is). I've even managed to mediate between my two teenagers and help them see a situation through each other's eyes.

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