Kathleen MacferranKathleen holds a vision for a peaceful, just and sustainable world. She is committed to spending the rest of her days building a world where peace replaces violence, love replaces hate, equity replaces inequity, and all people live meaningful lives. athleen has worked as a Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2003, and as a CNVC Assessor between 2010-2024 where she co-created a community-based path to certification. Community building and conflict transformation are passions of hers.Kathleen has worked internationally with individuals, community groups, businesses, schools, colleges, faith-based communities, hospitals, families, prison inmates, and correctional and law enforcement employees. She served as a trainer for the Freedom Project of Seattle, WA, an organization that supports communities both inside and outsideprison through Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, racial equity and anti-oppression work. Kathleen offers trainings in Nonviolent Communication, facilitation, system building, mediation and intimate relationships using practical skills that lead to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones and our communities. For over 40 years Kathleen has explored ways to restore harmony to communities, including two decades as a musicconductor and leader of a nonprofit organization, and seven years as a public-school teacher.Kathleen is the author of Calling In the Dawn: Shaping Our Future through Authentic Dialogue, two children's books How Giraffes Found Their Hearts and How Giraffes Got Their Ears, and conductor for Giraffe Tales (a children's CD setting those stories to music). She is the conductor on multiple Rainier Chamber Winds classical music recordings.Visit her website (www.strengthofconnection.com) to find her books, music, and to hear Kathleen's three TEDx talks. Read More Read Less