Catherine Murray has owned and operated Catherine Murray Photo for a little over 16 years. She works with companies to create imagery for advertising, such as product packaging, catalogs, billboards, banner ads and annual reports. Catherine went to her first NVC workshop in 2018 and joined a practice group that fall in hopes of learning communication skills to handle conflict within her business and personal relationships, as well as address the increasing political divide.
Don Buckingham, Sr. is one of CCCO’s newest board members! He helps the board streamline our organization’s core values, goals and mission into actionable items. Don remains curious and uses compassionate communication in all personal and professional interactions; especially when listening with an empathetic ear and providing reflection and/or feedback. He defines the use of NVC as a spiritual practice for him — helping foster empathetic connection and honest communication with others.
Marian Stuckey is Section Chief of Neighborhood Social Services for Columbus Public Health and leads the Columbus CARE Coalition and the Neighborhood Social Work Programs. She brings dozens of organizations together in partnership to offer care and provide essentials services to families in need in multiple neighborhoods throughout Columbus.
Tom is one of the Founding members of CCCO. He served as Vice Chair of the original CCCO Steering Committee in 2005, which helped introduce NVC to the central Ohio community, and planned for NVC Conferences with Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, and Founder of NVC. Tom also served on the CCCO Board and Advisory Council, and he has conducted or co-presented several NVC Training Workshops, sponsored by CCCO. Additionally, Tom is a Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
I experienced an amazing event today at the Columbus College of Art Design (CCAD), the hosts of an Erase the Space event. Erase the Space is a civil program that brings high school students together from different communities and schools in the Columbus area to talk about common challenges students have, through the lens of civil discourse.
As I was thinking about Robert Gonzales’s upcoming retreat in Columbus, Ohio, in May 2018, I wondered what the best way would be to describe the retreat and the work of living compassion. Over the past 10 years of knowing and studying with Robert, I haven’t experienced him as a teacher, a guru, mystic or spiritual leader, but as a companion on this journey of discovering how to live life more fully activated and free.
The practice of nonviolent communication has never seemed more urgent – or relevant, than it does at the present moment in our history. The reason for this seems to be embodied in the peace practice of the Haudenosaunee , the great Native American federation of tribes. They recognized two really important concepts that we would be wise to try to remember, that all things are interconnected, that the past present and future coexist and that in our hearts, in our passions, and in our perspective, we carry seven generations.
To me, NVC is a way of life, not just a communication tool. Through the practice of seeking connection to our humanity and universal needs with others, NVC fosters the principles of Peace, Justice, and Unity that spiritual practices also invite us to aspire to our lives.
Catherine Murray has owned and operated Catherine Murray Photo for a little over 16 years. She works with companies to create imagery for advertising, such as product packaging, catalogs, billboards, banner ads and annual reports. Catherine went to her first NVC workshop in 2018 and joined a practice group that fall in hopes of learning communication skills to handle conflict within her business and personal relationships, as well as address the increasing political divide.