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Cheryle and Beth celebrating together at a working session
Our founder, Cheryle (right), and founding member, Beth (left).
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Voices of the community.

These notes come from parents, educators, survivors, and neighbors who've found something useful here. We share them with permission, and with names changed where it felt safer to.

"Cheryle Gail is the quintessential practitioner and guide of NVC practices. Her natural warmth and humor, along with her deep lived experiences, have made her a teacher of rare wisdom and kindness."

Nancy Reyering

"Cheryle is a strong and wise presence in a group, with a guiding personality that allows for all emotions to come forward and be heard, and a rather brave and compassionate vibe that ensures these emotions will be held responsibly and kindly."

Sam Stern

"Cheryle's calm energy was inviting, her empathic reflection was grounding, and her patience was reassuring. Though learning about the language of 'chooser' and inner critic was new to me and I didn't have much clarity around what I needed, I appreciate her guidance around checking in with my body, re-assessing what I needed, and if the conversation aligned with what I was looking for when I entered the conversation."

Jasmin

"For many years now, Cheryle Gail and I have assisted Jean Morrison (MA in Psychology, Counseling & Wholistic Health, Co-Founder of NVC Santa Cruz and Certified NVC trainer) in her 2 and 5 day residential NVC / Compassionate Communication workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Cheryle always fills the room with safety, service, trust, love, kindness, presence, and competence. The rudiments of Marshall Rosenberg's teachings are integrated into Cheryle's heart — she lives her practice of compassionate communication. At workshops I always witness Cheryle showing up for herself, for Jean, for me, and for the participants — on time, on point, and with deep willingness, authenticity, and integrity. Her playful and skillful practice of NVC — improv with Jackal and Giraffe ears on, 'Empathy Poker,' 'Empathy NOT,' a helpful comment in response to a question, or simply providing empathy — is always a blessing. Cheryle is deeply loving, wise, self-responsible, humble, kind, and dedicated: a big compassionate heart on legs."

Eric Schneider NVC workshop assistant, Esalen Institute

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