Gail is a CNVC Certified Trainer bringing 15 years of personal practice and application of NVC to her teaching. Professionally, Gail co-organizes NVC programs, including the East Coast Mediate Your Life Immersion Program, which trains mediators and others on how to use NVC to better resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts. Gail also produces and organizes the week-long New York Intensive in Nonviolent Communication, an annual residential intensive held in New York State for all interested in the practice of NVC.
In her private client practice and in the numerous workshops and classes that she leads, Gail focuses on relationships, mediating conflict, and empathy. These concentrations stem from her own life experiences. Gail grew up in an often-chaotic environment and found that she did not know how to handle conflict. She would choose to avoid it altogether but when that wasn’t possible, her coping methods tended to be “freezing” or “lashing out.” Gail explains it like this: “I was all confused emotion and just didn’t know how to navigate conflict or frustration.” Later in adulthood when was faced with the challenge of raising a young daughter by herself. she sought out skills for understanding and communicating emotions. When she discovered NVC, she knew that she had found something life-changing.
Gail practiced NVC for several years before she graduated from Bay NVC’s intensive year-long leadership program in 2006, after which she launched her own practice and established NVC Boston. Through her practice of NVC, she has developed a stronger relationship with herself and a deeper understanding of her own emotions and needs. She has also fostered strong communication-based interpersonal relationships, including those with her daughter and partner.
As a teacher, Gail is known for her compassion, practice, and care. Her strong commitment to the transformative power of NVC and her own story of how it has brought authenticity, clarity, and compassion into all her relationships inspires both clients and students. One fellow teacher says, “Her commitment and integrity in living the process in her own life have met the needs for connection, peace, love, and support for so many of us.”
To contact Gail, email her at gcarroll@nvcboston.org or call her at 617-840-4898.
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