Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication. She leads workshops and intensive retreats in Nonviolent Communication and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, and training for organizations throughout the United States and in Japan, Europe, Brazil, and Africa. She supported the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls between 2005 and 2009. In 2007 she facilitated the 3rd Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace in Japan, and in 2008 the 1st Summit of the African Alliance for Peace, a regional segment of the global group. Miki hosts the Conflict Hotline, a monthly live call-in TV show on the Berkeley Community Media channel BETV, which can be viewed on YouTube at www.youtube.com/baynvc. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley and her articles have appeared in Tikkun magazine, Communities magazine, and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with leaders and activists.