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John Kinyon facilitates human connection and collaboration through empathic communication. Mediate Your Life is at the intersection of communication, consciousness, and the ability to respond effectively to conflict, based in the international body of Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
The Mediate Your Life vision and mission is that empathic communication is an integral part of health and wellness, and that humanity is able to work together to respond to the enormous challenges we face and create a healthy, just, and sustainable world for all people and the planet.
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John Kinyon
John is an internationally renowned and respected leader and teacher of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for over 25 years. He studied closely with NVC creator/founder Marshall Rosenberg for over a decade and was one of his most trusted students. John has trained, coached, and mediated with thousands of people around the world. In the last decade, he has focused more deeply on integrating mindfulness (dual and nondual) and trauma healing into his work.
"I was born in 1967, the decade that humans impossibly flew to the moon, and the social movement for a new kind of freedom, empathy, compassion and striving for equality began amidst tremendous societal upheaval. I carry within me that revolutionary energy into which I was born. As a young adult I caught fire studying the work of famed American humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers, who pioneered empathic listening and relationship. At that time I also became deeply passionate about the life and work of Indian social leader Mahatma Gandhi, who embodied the power of 'nonviolence' that he used to liberate his country from the oppressive forces of empire and colonization.
Martin Luther King, Jr. would later find inspiration in Gandhi and nonviolence to ignite the heart of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 60’s. In 1998 I met Marshall Rosenberg, a product of that struggle for social justice and equality. Marshall had created a body of work called Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and gave over four decades of his life traveling the world sharing it. I went on to work closely with him as my mentor for over a decade. He passed the torch of that liberating energy to me and others, and I have carried it forward through an international body of work and training program I co-developed with colleague Ike Laster called Mediate Your Life. I have created an online community and offer training courses, conflict coaching, mediation, speaking, public events, and authoring of books." — John Kinyon
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- John's Work -
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Commune Podcast with Jeff Krasno
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Awakin Podcast
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- More ABOUT John -
John Kinyon is the founder of Mediate Your Life.
He has devoted his life and career to human connection and the ability to shift from conflict to understanding, compassion, and collaboration through empathic communication.
John provides mediation and training with individuals and organizations around the world. He is a certified trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).
His Mediate Your Life approach is based in the work of Nonviolent Communication and integrates a mediation framework, mindfulness, and trauma work. 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 conflict “maps” for navigating conflicts and challenges, inner and outer, in all aspects of life.
Mediate Your Life integrates Nonviolent Communication, a mediation framework, mindfulness, and an understanding of trauma healing, particularly from Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems and the generational and collective trauma work of Thomas Hübl.
John teaches professional training certification programs and personal growth courses. He also facilitates weekly Community Healing Spaces focused on social-political and personal divides and creating empathic community. John offers individual conflict coaching, interpersonal and group mediation, and organizational culture change. He also facilitates International Intensive Trainings for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) around the world. John is a published author, MYL app creator, podcaster, and speaker.
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