JEYANTHY Siva is an international trainer/facilitator, mediator and coach. She has been facilitating trainings and team retreats since 2000 and (until the pandemic) traveled between Asia, Europe and the USA. Now she offers sessions via Zoom and in person. Her work is rooted in the principles and practices of Nonviolent Communication as developed by Marshall Rosenberg, deepened through de-colonial lens and an understanding of systemic domination.
Her current focus (since 2014) is facilitating & training groups and organizations to address issues of power, inclusion, equity, diversity as well as anti-racism training and addressing (through mediation and/or coaching) dynamics of discrimination and conflict in teams working together.
She is passionate about decolonization of the mind (ways of thinking, seeing the self/one’s community and seeing the world), liberating self and others from internalized oppression and contributing to dismantling structures of oppression inherited from the systems of domination that humanity has been laboring under for eons.
In the course of her work, she has trained/facilitated various populations such as professionals working with refugees (Netherlands), climate change organizations (Brussels and Europe wide), sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations (Global), feminist funding organizations (N. America & global); mutli-religious clergy engaged in peacebuilding (Sri Lanka), women grass roots activists and peacebuilders (Thailand), development and peace building organizations (East Timor, Sri Lanka), engaged Buddhists coming together to dialogue (India/Sri Lanka), police officers wanting to build trust and get cooperation from minorities in their district (UK), war affected youth to heal trauma and build community and resilience (Sri Lanka) and dialogue and skill building among groups in conflict (Nepal), NVC skill building in 7 and 10 day intensive residential trainings (Sri Lanka & USA), Power of empathy for healing painful experiences (Finland, Singapore) and more. In Sri Lanka where she was based for many years, she has trained teachers, university students, lecturers, NGOs, media personal as well as medical professionals (doctors, psychiatrists & counselors).
Her formal educational background is from University of California, Berkeley and Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA). In the late 90’s, She studied for many years with Marshall Rosenberg, developer of the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) model. She first studied with and then collaborated with trainers from BayNVC in Berkeley, CA (USA). She was mentored by and worked with Joanna Macy (author, systems theorist and Buddhist scholar) since the late 90’s.
She is proud to count Valerie Batts (founder) and Terry Berman (senior consultant) of VISIONS (a DEI consulting firm and so much more) among her mentors and teachers from the late 90s until now.
Websites:
Communication Matters: https://communication-matters.net
Sandhi Institute: www.sandhi.org (NVC in context of peace building and healing/reconciliation in conflict and post conflict context)