Shantigarbha Warren

Shantigarbha is an international NVC trainer, certified with the International Centre for Nonviolent Communication. He teaches on CNVC International Intensive Trainings (IITs), is a CNVC Assessor-in-training working in South Asia, and served on the Social Change and Peacemaking working group.

In 1996 he was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order. He was given the name Shantigarbha, which means Seeds of peace‚ hence the name of our organization. He currently serves on the Triratna International Council, is Secretary of the Triratna Trust (the Order charity), and coordinates the Triratna Restorative Pilot Project.

Shantigarbha has led NVC workshops and retreats in the UK, the Middle East, the US, India and Sri Lanka and offers coaching / counselling for individuals and couples. In 2011 he ran a reconciliation retreat for 100 Israelis and Palestinians near the Dead Sea. He is author of a book on empathy: I will Meet You There.

He says: Communication can change the world. I want to connect with people, to create a safe learning environment, to have fun, to mourn and celebrate!

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  • NVC Life Hacks 32: Mediation in a Formal Setting

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Mediation is a great skill to have whether it's for your personal relationships or in the workplace. We look at four different techniques and their benefits in a role-play between two neighbours discussing a dispute.

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  • NVC Life Hacks 30: How to Stay Sane in the Climate and Ecological Emergency

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: With more and more news coverage on the increase in climate events around the world, climate change is slowly becoming accepted as an emergency. But how do we stay sane amongst all the chaos and to go one step further how can we take action whilst being...

  • NVC Life Hacks 3: How to Listen

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In the third in a series on applying NVC to daily life, Shantigarbha follows directly on from Episode 2, showing us that listening isn't a passive activity, and offers five tips for how to improve our listening skills.

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  • NVC Life Hacks 29: Inner Conflict

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: A 5-step process to ease inner conflict and gain clarity on tough decisions.

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  • NVC Life Hacks 27: Compassionate Parenting

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When the pressure is on whether that's rushing out the door for the school run or getting them to bed on time, it's easy to leave all our best practices to one side. Luckily Nonviolent Communication gives us some useful tools to add to our metaphorical ...

  • NVC Life Hacks 26: Life-enriching education

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: A lot of us picked up new hobbies and learning new things during the COVID lockdown. After recently posting a puzzle on Facebook, Shantigarbha ended up being delightfully surprised at the conversation it began around NVC in relation to learning and educ...

  • NVC Life Hacks 25: Deepening the Roots of Self-Empathy

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this Life Hack, we're going deeper into self-empathy with a simple guided reflection that you can work through. This will be followed by a short exercise with a fill-in sheet (link above) led by Gesine and is something you can come back to as you wis...

  • NVC Life Hacks 24: Bridge & Self Expression

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Welcome to the final video in our 3 part Embodied NVC Life Hack series. So far we've learnt about rewiring our brain from a flight, fright or freeze reaction to the choice of self-empathy, allowing us to centre and check-in with ourselves. In part two, ...

  • NVC Life Hacks 23: Embodied NVC Part Two Empathy Skills

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Welcome to Part Two of our 3 part Embodied NVC Life Hack series. Last time we looked at rewiring your brain to navigate our primitive mind and sometimes default reactions such as fight, flight or freeze when faced with conflict. In this episode, we're g...

  • NVC Life Hacks 22: Embodied NVC Part One: Fight, Flight, Freeze

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When we're faced with certain situations we tend to go into a fight, flight or freeze mode. While these can sometimes be helpful and even lifesaving, they can also be crippling when the situation may not be life-threatening. In this episode, we give you...

  • NVC Life Hacks 20: How to Receive Feedback

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: We all know what it's like to be on the end of feedback that we receive as clumsy, unbalanced or even spiteful. We don't have any control over the skill level of people who give us feedback, or their motivations. So how do we receive feedback without ta...

  • NVC Life Hacks 2: How Not to Listen

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this, the second in a series on applying NVC to daily life, Shantigarbha offers five tips for recognizing where communication is likely to go awry.

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    - presence
    - relationships
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    - partnership
    - listening
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  • NVC Life Hacks 19: How to Give Values-Based Feedback

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: In this Life Hack, we take a closer look at 'values-based' feedback and give you 7 practical tips that will help you provide useful feedback.
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  • NVC Life Hacks 18: How to Give Quick Feedback

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Giving feedback can be a difficult task, sometimes we try to avoid getting to the point and instead end up spending a long time attempting to communicate. We find there are mostly two types of feedback. The first focuses on what is wrong with the person...

  • NVC Life Hacks 17: How to say I love you

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer

    Falling in love is quite an experience, especially when it comes to that moment of saying 'I love you'. So what happens once you're in a relationship but still need to express the way you feel? Sometimes people feel like just saying 'I love you' is too ...

  • NVC Life Hacks 16: Recovering Perfectionist

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you just keep going with a task, even if your body is screaming for a pause? Maybe you leave tasks incomplete because you can't finish them the way you want? Do you not even attempt some tasks because you know that you won't be able to do them perfec...

  • NVC Life Hacks 14: Purpose of NVC

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Nonviolent Communication at its core is about the quality of connection that will lead to everybody's needs being met. In this months 'Purpose of NVC' episode, we ask ourselves five questions that help us gain an awareness of where Nonviolent Communicat...

  • NVC Life Hacks 13: Restorative vs Punitive Approaches

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: When people get hurt or harmed, how can we restore trust, safety and connection in the community? A restorative approach which focuses on who got hurt and how can we restore it? Rather than whose fault is it and how can we punish them?

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  • NVC Life Hacks 12: Love the Inner Jackal

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: The "inner jackal" is probably be better known as the "inner critic", that nagging voice of self-sabotage that undermines our confidence. It's a voice that won't go away in a hurry! So here are our four top tips for getting into positive communication w...

  • NVC LIfe Hacks 11: Effective Requests

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer

    Underlying much of our communication is a request: when we say something, we're usually expecting something else — perhaps something subtle — in return. Let's look at how to make requests clearer and more do-able, avoiding the pitfall of demands.

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  • NVC Life Hacks 10: Winter Blues

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: Quite a few of us find the darker winter months emotionally tricky. If you're one of those sorts of people, here are three NVC-oriented tips to help you through to spring!

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  • NVC Life Hacks 1: Partnership

    Shantigarbha Warren, Certified NVC Trainer: This is the first in a series of tips on applying NVC to daily life. In this episode, Shantigarbha offers five tips for improving communication in relationships.

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    - partnership
    - tips
    - relationships
    - presence
    - Shantigarbha Warren