Dmitriy was eager to grasp different knowledge and restless explorer his entire life. Working as leader and expert, reading full libraries of books and attending so many classes, trainings and workshops, he was a walking encyclopedia of various technical and formal knowledge. He was always keen on sharing his knowledge and fully dedicated to learn and share more, and more, and more. Until one day it was really too much and it all stopped, burned out, ending in hospital. 

Several years later, after changing his life style up-side down, learning yoga, martial arts, connecting with nature and finding his meaning, he met two of his today’s “best friends”: NVC – Nonviolent Communication and CI – Contact Improvisation. They met on a similar, multi day retreat and changed his life completely, beyond words to describe meeting Life on another level. After attending more than hundred days of trainings, facilitating/leading hundreds of his own workshops, individual coaching and therapy sessions, he supported changes and transitions in life of thousands of people. Until this day, this several days retreats are still his favorite events.

His life mission and purpose, working as trainer, expert, adviser, manager, father and a teacher involve activities that are supporting individuals finding their authenticity, fullness of life and awareness; connecting people together, building “power with” communities based on equality of all needs and using forms of communication and full embodiment to support connecting individuals and groups into their essence, consciousness and spirituality. 

Other than being in the process of NVC trainer certification, Marša is also English and Montessori teacher, and co-founder of a homeschooling community in Slovenia. She loves to discuss, explore and experience the structures and the ingredients of relationships and languages, especially relationships between partners, close friends, parent-child and teacher-child relationships. For some years now she has been exploring how language influences our awareness and is working towards bringing the NVC philosophy into parent communities and particularly into her community of homeschoolers. She has been a Montessorian for a decade and has a wide range of teaching and training experiences.
Her life’s purposes are: empowering children in relationships with adults by living NVC, educating parents and teacher as well as other adults working with children, creating communities that support healthy relationships among families and employees who support these communities, finding balance between work and relaxation
Marša works as a teacher, trainer, translator, mediator and is a mother of two preschoolers – she loves to spend time outdoors moving and exploring the world and the people in it.

Špela is a psychologist, student of gestalt experiential psychotherapy and founder of Moave – psychology in movement organization.

She has more than 10 years of experience in non-formal education settings as a group facilitator and trainer. As a passionate movement researcher and contact improvisation dancer, she is constantly exploring and reflecting upon the relation between dance and life. In her work, she is combining knowledge from her profession and her passion, in order to bring the important impact both parts (psychology and movement) have on an individual, to create harmonious cooperation of the body-mind.

Davide Casiraghi is a Contact Improvisation teacher with more than 10 years of experience in dancing and exploring somatic-based practices. In the last years, he has dedicated his time to study the Ilan Lev Method movement and bodywork approach that profoundly affect his perspective of movement in everyday life.

In his personal experience, the combination of different movement approaches he uses (Yoga, Contact Improvisation, Inline Skating, Freediving, Monofin swimming, Ilan Lev method), help him to find more balance between his personal and professional life as a Senior Web Developer and to enrich his quality of life. He sees movement as a way to re-awake, enjoying fully our sensitivity, spontaneity, and playfulness.

Working and living in an international environment enriched my appreciation for the diversity of the world’s people and their cultures which made me improve and deepen my communication skills. My natural interest in interpersonal relationships and the inner world of each individual has led me to discover NVC.

Since my first NVC retreat, I have gotten a completely new perspective of myself and the way force of Life is expressed through me. Needless to say, it has also changed the way I communicate with others.

My longing is to guide by example and to help others not only to discover their needs but also to find a unique way to authentically actualize them. When I started walking this path I began accepting who I am and what my needs are – now my mission is to support those who decided to go on that journey too.