John KinyonMediator,Co-creator/founder, Mediate Your Life International TrainingCertified Trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC),John Kinyon, MS, is an experienced workplace mediator and trainer. Since 2002 he has provided mediation and training to organizations, including business partnerships, and with families and family businesses. John studied and practiced clinical psychology at Penn State University’s graduate program from 1992 to 1997. After co-founding a small food business, John began a career as a mediator. It was then he met Marshall Rosenberg, creator of the international work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). John became a certified trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication in 2000, co-founded the Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC) in 2001, and in 2002 journeyed to the boarder of Pakistan-Afghanistan where he offered training and mediated a dispute between Afghan tribal elders in a refugee camp. From 2002 onward John has specialized in NVC-based mediation and training and co-developed what has become an international program called Mediate Your Life (MYL). For over 20 years he has mediated conflicts and developed and delivered the NVC/MYL training throughout the U.S. and in countries around the world in Europe, Asia, and Australia. His approach provides conversation “maps” for navigating conflicts and challenges, inner and outer, in all aspects of life. In addition to providing mediation and training with organizations and families, he also offers online and in person trainings, courses, and programs internationally, and facilitates international online forums on social-political and personal divides and building empathic community. He is an author and speaker. John is co-author of the following books:- Choosing Peace: New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict- From Conflict to Connection: Transforming Difficult Conversations into Peaceful Resolutions- When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams: Turning Your Critical Internal Voices Into Collaborative AlliesFor more information on John and his work, see www.johnkinyon.com.For more information see: www.johnkinyon.com