John trained individually with Marshall Rosenberg in Switzerland in the summer of 1999 and became a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication in the spring of 2000. He has given trainings in a variety of settings since then, most notably within the Waldorf school movement.

John met Waldorf education in 1978 when he helped found a pioneering school on Orcas Island and began his study of Anthroposophy. From 1984-86, John attended Emerson College in England where he received his Waldorf teaching credential. From the fall of 1986 through spring 2000, he was a Waldorf class teacher in southern Oregon. During those years and continuing after he left the classroom, he was active in the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) Delegates' Circle and served on the AWSNA Western Regional Committee.

John is presently teaching a three-day home school program for ten- and eleven-year-olds in Nevada City, California, where he integrates an awareness cultivated through Nonviolent Communication with a Waldorf curriculum and pedagogy.

John has published a small booklet, variously called Compassionate Communication and Waldorf Education, or Compassionate Communication and the Emerging Art of Empathy. He is deeply interested in how the "way of seeing" developed by Johannes Goethe in his scientific writings sheds light on the cultivation of empathy. Perhaps the work of Marshall Rosenberg is providing us with the means to acelerate the birth of a Compassionate (Phenomenological) Communication whereby we can language the universal process of human becoming, giving us access to the "field beyond right and wrong."

Additional Resources: The booklet is available for download and free distribution from his website, www.empathy-conexus.com

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