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Mair Alight

(CNVC Certified Trainer)

Mair Alight


  • Developer of Jackal Cafe & Another Way spatial floor map used as a visual and experiential map of two "windows of perspective": Jackal/Judgement and Giraffe/Guessing.
  • Author  of "Compassionate Underwear Bear", a children's coloring book.  Compassionate Underwear Bear (CUB) guides two children lost in the woods to discover that blaming and complaining keep them lost - and sharing and caring help them find their way home. 
  • Co-Creator with Carol Chase of "Living NVC" DVD.
  • Author of "Tips and Tricks for Living NVC" 
  • Contributing author of stories in "The Healing Power of Empathy"

  • Trained and learned with Marshall Rosenberg (over 500 hours, multiple events including two International Intensive Trainings and an Experiment in Social Change, Switzerland (living with 65 people from 25 countries for 15 days) (2005)

  • Co-Creator of 4 weeks NVC Training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Co-Organizer, NVC Weekend Festival, August 2015, Vashon Island, Washington
  • Co-Founder with Aya Caspi, Showing Up For Love Teleseries for Parents and Grandparents (2013-2014).
  • Founder of NVC I Am Coaching Teleseries
  • Founder of Needs-Based Phone Empathy and Coaching Teleseries
  • Convener & Organizer of the October 2nd 24 Hour Global Empathy Call by phone or Skype. 2009-2015.
  • Chief Empathy Trainer, Empathy App Trial May/June 2014  (Empathy Connection with Live Empathizers in Real Time via Telephone).
  • Co-Founder with Fred Sly of Willits Compassion Connection in Willits, California


  • Participated in the first Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) Leadership Program (2001-2002).
  • Collaborative Trainer with BayNVC (2011-2014)
  • Participant in Miki Kashtan's Leveraging Your Impact Program, West Coast.
  • Co-founder of the BayNVC San Quentin Prison NVC Teaching Team  weekly offerings of NVC in prisons and jails (2002-2012). 
  • Two Years Contract working weekly with patients and staff at California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation at Vacaville Mental Health Facility 


  • Founding Minister of The I Am Peace Spiritual Center, a Center for Spiritual Living (3+ years)

  • Staff Minister and Teen Youth Advisor for Ukiah, California Center for Spiritual Living (7 years)

  • Certified International Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication since 2006

Upcoming Trainings

Wed, Feb 5, 2020

WEDNESDAYS Feb 5,12,19,26 (4 calls) 5:30-6:30pmPT
NVC Introduction Phone Conference 4 Call Wednesday Series FEBRUARY 2020 (Mair Alight) ()

Learn and practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication. Profoundly change your ability to listen with curiosity (instead of blame and criticism) and speak with compassion for others while remaining true to yourself. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Mair will be sharing some of her "Tips 'N Tricks" and her 5-Point Overview Introduction to NVC (Provided to Print Out) 1 Purpose 2 Choices 3 Modes 4 Components (the "grammar" of NVC) 5 Principles Practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Learn how to say what’s true for you without criticizing others. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Bring to class your own conflicts with difficult people. Experience getting to the heart of the matter; increasing shared understanding & more harmony. Call recording links will be shared. My goal is within 24 hours of each call. I create a google doc and place call info there.
Wed, Mar 4, 2020

WEDNESDAYS March 4,11,18,25 (4 calls) 5:30-6:30pmPT
NVC Introduction Phone Conference 4 Call Wednesday Series MARCH 2020 (Mair Alight) (Teleconference via your phone from your)

Learn and practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication. Profoundly change your ability to listen with curiosity (instead of blame and criticism) and speak with compassion for others while remaining true to yourself. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Mair will be sharing some of her "Tips 'N Tricks" and her 5-Point Overview Introduction to NVC (Provided to Print Out) 1 Purpose 2 Choices 3 Modes 4 Components (the "grammar" of NVC) 5 Principles Practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Learn how to say what’s true for you without criticizing others. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Bring to class your own conflicts with difficult people. Experience getting to the heart of the matter; increasing shared understanding & more harmony. Call recording links will be shared. My goal is within 24 hours of each call. I create a google doc and place call info there.
Wed, Apr 8, 2020

WEDNESDAYS APRIL 8,15,22,29 (4 calls) 5:30-6:30pmPT
NVC Introduction Phone Conference 4 Call Wednesday Series APRIL 2020 (Mair Alight) (Teleconference via your phone from your)

Learn and practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication. Profoundly change your ability to listen with curiosity (instead of blame and criticism) and speak with compassion for others while remaining true to yourself. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Mair will be sharing some of her "Tips 'N Tricks" and her 5-Point Overview Introduction to NVC (Provided to Print Out) 1 Purpose 2 Choices 3 Modes 4 Components (the "grammar" of NVC) 5 Principles Practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Learn how to say what’s true for you without criticizing others. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. Bring to class your own conflicts with difficult people. Experience getting to the heart of the matter; increasing shared understanding & more harmony. Call recording links will be shared. My goal is within 24 hours of each call. I create a google doc and place call info there.

Practice Groups

VASHON ISLAND / 98070: NVC Practice/Empathy Circle: Participants co-create our experience. Role plays, empathy dyads, small groups, games, exercises...We share our time for inclusion/care for all. We meet indoors  in inclement weather and outside when weather is agreeable for us.
Facilitated by Mair Alight, Empathy Specialist & Certified Trainer/Mediator. Mair learned directly from Marshall Rosenberg (developer of NVC) and has been learning, teaching and practicing since 2000.   $20/session
We meet in a private home on 87th Ave SW Vashon
Contact Mair Alight: 707-367-3432 (text preferred) or m a i r AT DOMAIN mairalight~com

Special Interest: Beginning NVC, Intermediate NVC, Advanced NVC

Occurs Weekly on Thursdays from 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM