Deep Transformation
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In my work organizations and individuals receive support for transforming ineffective, maladaptive, and dehumanizing patterns, cultures and systems to achieve their goals guided by their deepest values.

Latest Events

Mar 27

Book Talk: Oren Jay Sofer & Roxy Manning In Conversation (Online)

What does the contemplative path have to offer our aching hearts in a rapidly changing world beset with challenge? What can our practice offer beyond personal benefits? Join Oren Jay Sofer and Roxy Manning online via Banyen Books & Sound, for a conversation about their new books. Oren’s book, Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love and Roxy’s books How to Have Antiracist Conversations and The Antiracist Heart.
Mar 27

Author Talk: Skills for Building Beloved Community with Roxy Manning

Join us for a transformative, interactive book talk and Q&A with Dr. Manning, exploring antiracism as a model for anti-oppression dialogues. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of the Beloved Community, The Authentic Dialogue framework offers a path to combating white supremacy culture and other forms of oppression. Learn how to apply this approach in conversations around gender, age, sexuality, size, religion, class and more with practical tools and strategies. Discover how to foster connection and courage through compassionate, yet fierce, dialogues.
Sep 9, 2023 – Apr 7, 2024

Immersion in Nonviolent Communication

Mar 13 – Apr 10

Coaching Across Racial Microaggressions: March/April 2024

Join us to explore the challenges of responding to microaggressions from the perspective of the person making them, the person watching them or the person experiencing them. Learn skills to help you regain choice and effectiveness when responding to improve your chances of creating connection while attending to the needs of those most impacted. Our empathic but direct coaching will help create the shifts in awareness you’re seeking.

Roxy’s Approach

How do we cultivate real vitality in ourselves, our relationships, our jobs, and our work? What does it take for our organizations and communities to be simultaneously successful, innovative, and equitable? How do we sustain hope that this is possible?

In my work, organizations and individuals receive support for transforming ineffective, maladaptive, and dehumanizing patterns, cultures, and systems to achieve their goals guided by their deepest values. Leveraging innate human capacities for empathy, creativity, healing, and problem solving, my work brings functionality and robustness on levels from the internal to the systemic.

I offer guidance in creating positive change empowered by empathic connection to what matters most which allows for transformations sourced from acceptance, compassion, and celebration rather than shame, guilt, or punishment.

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Articles & Media

One World, Many Experiences: Embracing Diversity in Teaching NVC

Lately folks have been saying to me, We’re all humans with the same underlying needs. Isn’t that the premise of NVC? If you believe in …

Don’t Call Me White!

Q: How do we address/what can we do to address the language and logic of micro-aggressions being appropriated by members of the dominant class, for …

Peacebuilding When We Disagree (Podcast)

Click here to listen to the full interview! With election season 2020 behind us, there’s a lot of talk from winning candidates about opposing political …

Making Sense of These Times (Video)

In this live-streamed conversation, I discuss the opportunities that NVC provides for understanding and transforming racism.
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