Mediating Conflicts with Children
Free Audio: Interview with John Kinyon

by Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

John is a leading certified trainer of the center for nonviolent Communication and has been training with NVC for over 10 years and has been developing and evolving an approach to mediating conflict for the past 7 years. John has facilitated NVC mediation on just about every level of human relations since 2002, including couples, family, community, business, legal contexts and institutions. His mediation practice has included an entire graduate faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, the Executive vice Chancellor and all the vice chancellors at another UC system university, faculty and administration in alternative schools.

John earned an M.S. degree in clinical psychology from Penn State University, spending 5 years of doctoral training working as a psychotherapist with individuals and groups and as a research assistant at the Penn State Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute.

About the Interview

• What are some of the unique contributions of NVC to conflict resolution?
• What are sone of the unique challenges of mediating conflicts with kids?
• What are the key steps to mediating conflicts with our children? 

These are some of the questions John answers in this interview before engaging in a role play with Stephanie and her husband Giuseppe.

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