Roxy Manning

Committed to compassion and fierce authenticity, Roxy Manning brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms within individuals, communities, and organizations. Rooted in her experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant, Roxy's passion for cultivating resilience and equity comes from seeing the vast inequities in the ways different communities were resourced throughout her development and education. Roxy has worked and consulted across the U.S. with businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations wanting to move towards equitable and diverse hiring practices and workplace cultures, as well as with individuals and groups committed to social justice in Sri Lanka, Japan, The Netherlands, and Thailand.

As a facilitator, Roxy's thrilled by the process of holding opposing voices and ushering groups from discord towards values-driven solutions that work for everyone. Her own inner work coupled with her professional experience has grown her capacity to meet people with varying levels of education, disparate life experiences, and the most intense feelings in ways that help them feel heard, respected, supported, and loved. As a psychologist, she maintains a private therapy practice, and works with the City and County of San Francisco's Disability Evaluation and Consultation Unit, serving the unhoused and disenfranchised mentally ill population.

Roxy integrated Nonviolent Communication into her psychotherapy practice in 2003, and has been offering classes and workshops in NVC since 2005. She served as the Executive Director of BayNVC from 2014-2017, was a trainer for Bay NVC's NVC Leadership Program from 2008-2017, and has been a trainer for the Nonviolent Leadership for Social Justice Retreat since she co-founded it in 2007. As an Assessor with the Trainer Candidate Community Path team of the Center for Nonviolent Communication's (CVNC) Educational Services group, she collaborates with other experienced assessors as she works to support people from the Global Majority who wish to develop the experience and integration of NVC consciousness that will enable them to bring the power of NVC to the communities which they serve.

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  • NVC for Real: Questions about NVC in Sticky Relationships

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    Listen in as Roxy deftly responds to questions from participants about topics relating to conflict and major disagreements between loved ones and other important relationships, even those with power differences.

  • Overcoming Fear and Taking Action

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Fear and self-doubt often hold us back from taking action, but Roxy Manning urges us to confront these barriers, prepare for challenges, and build strong support systems. Social change is tough, and frustration is inevitable, but by embracing our humanity and ...

  • Safe Spaces and Confidentiality Agreements

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: How to create a safe space for a first time group working on power and privileges ? Roxy Manning, Phd, answers that question and goes deeper into exploring what does it mean to have a space space? Is it actually realistic? Roxy offers a distinction about safe ...

  • Responding to a Painful Comment

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: How do you carry on a conversation when someone's comment has had an impact on you? And what happens when two intentions clash because of different perspectives?

    Here's Roxy's powerful, common sense approach.

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  • Psychological Safety: Navigating Discomfort for Inclusive Teams

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning delves into the concept of psychological safety, drawing from Amy Edmondson's definition as the shared belief among team members that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. Roxy discusses the common misconception of safety within teams, w...

  • Parenting with Purpose: Navigating Challenges to Shape Future Outcomes

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the connection between the challenges parents face with their children and the qualities they want them to develop. She highlights the importance of aligning actions with desired outcomes, using the example that if parents value independ...

  • Parenting Tip: How to Engage when Young Children Comment on Differences

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares some strategies to support a child's natural curiosity when asking questions about physical differences using NVC skills.

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  • Navigating Systemic Change: The Role of NVC in Addressing Challenge

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: In this excerpt from Roxy Manning's 2019 Social Change session at the NVCfest, she explores the application of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to address both immediate conflicts and broader systemic issues. She emphasizes the importance of intervening at multi...

  • Navigating Racial Complexity: Balancing Intention and Impact in Facilitation

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning suggests that in navigating a situation where accusations of racism and a white savior complex arise, the facilitator emphasizes the distinction between intention and impact. Acknowledging the pain of the aggrieved person, the facilitator clarifie...

  • Navigating Parenthood with Compassion and Realistic Expectations

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: In parenting, Roxy Manning notes the tendency for self-judgment and external judgment. Roxy suggests that being a single parent or a working parent influences your ability to implement parenting strategies. The importance of assessing the feasibility of strate...

  • Modeling Our Values With Our Children

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: As parents, aligning our values with our actual behavior can be challenging. In this video, Roxy discusses the importance of modeling behavior for children, both in how they handle challenges and in their overall approach to life. Her message encourages using ...

  • How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects People of Color, Fishbowl Discussion

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Roxy Manning for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect people of color.

    What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — who're having a conversation in ...

  • How Our Behavior Impacts Our Children

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Children interpret and create meaning from everything they observe. They form a narrative about themselves and their place in the world. Roxy Manning shares how the stories of parents contribute to this narrative. Roxy shares a personal story where she, in an ...

  • How do Group Purpose and Group Agreements Differ?

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the distinction between group purpose and group agreements. Group purpose is identified as the reason for gathering, such as learning to facilitate groups with a focus on inclusion and contribution. Group agreements are the policies or i...

  • Functional Empathy that Supports Connection and Efficiency

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever been in a meeting where the agenda is full and someone gets triggered? Did you get stuck in an empathy spiral that leads to a never ending meeting? Roxy Manning differentiates between healing empathy and functional empathy, and how you can be bot...

  • Flexible Parenting: Letting Go of Control and Attuning to Your Child's Needs

    Not Attached to Strategy with Roxy ManningRoxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning discusses the tendency to get attached to certain parenting strategies for control and emphasizes the importance of attuning to the child's needs rather than imposing fixed ideas of right or wrong. Using a...

  • Equitable Facilitation: Navigating Attention, Needs, and Impact in Group Dynamic

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares that facilitating equitable group dynamics involves tracking attention, needs, purpose alignment, resources, and impact. Identifying patterns in attention distribution, centered needs, and maintaining alignment with the purpose enhances inc...

  • Neither Rioting Nor Colluding: Powerful Speaking to Create Social Change

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Young people in Baltimore and elsewhere are continuing to be killed for unfathomable reasons. Hurting people on all sides are roaring out in pain, demanding to be heard, and delivering hostile condemnation of each other’s actions. How do we talk about this? Ho...

  • The Power of Difference: Work Challenges

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: How do you bring empathy and authenticity to uncomfortable work situations when there are so many layers of difference – especially if your primary reason for working is to feed your family and pay your bills? Listen in as Roxy opens participants' eyes to some...

  • Navigating Relationships Between Individuals and Political or Cultural Systems

    AK-LL-MM-RM-SBM, Certified NVC Trainer: Please listen as we discuss and grapple with the issues of growing polarization in our world, political structures and personal relationships.

  • How does Parenting Impact Social Change?

    Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: What would it be like if we raised children who already knew how to be inclusive, who already understood climate change, and who knew that they had a role in keeping our planet liveable? Roxy Manning believes that how we parent can support the next generation ...

  • NVC & Social Change: Explore Systemic Issues with Compassion: 8 Session Course

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    We've seen how Nonviolent Communication can provide immense personal healing, but questions have arisen on whether it can also contribute to m...

  • Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity through Leadership: 4 session course

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    To get stuff done, groups need to come together.

    What happens when the group is composed of individuals who share the same mission, but who ...

  • From Awareness to Action: Bridging Differences: 6 Session Course

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    For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield.

    Even one's best attemp...