Sylvia Haskvitz
Sylvia’s been a CNVC certified trainer since 1989, among the first 20 NVC trainers to be certified. Sylvia has planted NVC seeds in communities worldwide including Israel/Palestine, Germany, Romania and England. She was part of the first team to offer 9 day trainings for Israelis/Palestinians and Internationals near Jericho in 2011. She is the author of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit, an NVC inspired book translated into several languages including German, Italian and Chinese. And a contributing author of Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves with her chapter titled Enemy Images based on her work as facilitator of a weekly dialogue group with Israelis and Palestinians occurring during the 90's at the time of the Oslo Accords.
Sylvia is a North American Assessor/Advocate for the next generation of certified trainers supporting the integrity of the NVC process and Marshall Rosenberg's legacy and she sits on the certification coordinating council.
She is passionate about NVC as a healing process for individuals and for couples and is working with Elucity, Network, Inc. and Marie Miyashiro in developing a communication survey to support couples and families. She enjoys the power of both the Enneagram and NVC to inspire self-awareness and self-responsibility.
She has an undergraduate degree in Nutrition from the University of Texas Allied Health Sciences at Houston and a masters degree in Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication from San Francisco State University. As one of her clients said, "Sylvia cares about what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it." She lives in Tucson, AZ, USA.