Newt Bailey & Leeza Pesenson

Upcoming Events

Communication Dojo IN-PERSON Tuesday Drop-In Classes

8 July @ Zen Center Conference Room

About

About Newt Bailey, Lead TrainerNewt’s passion is to help people communicate with each other more deeply, to experience greater intimacy, and to find the potential for mutually-satisfying change that lies within conflict.From his first training in 2005 Newt has set out to understand and share with others the essential core of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) - which he often calls "Connected Communication". He believes strongly in teaching the principles of NVC in a way that frees students from specialized language, and allows facility with connected communication to grow in small, quickly assimilated steps. The Communication Dojo provides Newt with an enviroment where he teaches the principles by which he lives, including his most recent insights and approaches.Since 2006 Newt has been facilitating NVC groups, and leading public workshops and workshops in organizational settings including corporations, not-for-profit organizations, schools and San Quentin prison. He has led retreats and yearlong programs in the USA and Europe. Newt has a private practice as a consultant and coach, with particular focus on communication, conflict resolution and leadership.* * *About Leeza Pesenson, Assistant TrainerLeeza is passionate about understanding how our minds work and how we connect with each other. She studied cognitive psychology and works as a User Experience Researcher by day. Leeza fell madly in love with NVC after attending Newt’s drop-in classes at The Center SF in 2018 and has been a dedicated practitioner ever since. She has participated in immersion programs in NVC, Mediation, Conflict Coaching, and Inner Compass work with Oren Sofer, Roxy Manning, John Kinyon, and Arnina Kashtan. Since 2020, Leeza has assisted Newt and organized her own NVC practice and empathy groups. She is overjoyed to be sharing NVC on a larger scale as part of the Communication Dojo team.