Nonviolent Communication℠ (NVC) is about choosing to communicate with empathy, honesty, and compassion. The quality connection created with ourselves and with others creates a sense of value on both sides.
Meaningful communication leads to a sense of safety that allows for people to resolve issues and deepen relationships in all facets of life.
Each day is a new beginning to strengthen my communication skills and to deepen my commitment to connecting with more compassion.
I dream of a world where cooperation, authenticity, integrity, compassion, care for others, meaning and purpose and a recognition of our interdependence are the natural way we interact with one another across all settings.
As the mother of two children, who inspired me for this journey, I work to create the kind of world I want them to live in. I hold a Masters in Counseling and am a Certified Trainer for the global Center for Nonviolent Communication.
I am cofounder of the Vashon Island NVC Family Camp and an active member of the Northwest Compassionate Communication Network as well as the global Center for Nonviolent Communication℠.
I have worked in the field of education and communication for more than 20 years. Combining my background, unique facilitation style, and vast multi-cultural experience, I deliver transformational workshops that produce lasting results for improving interactions and communication skills.
Both in the United States and around the world, we work with individuals and groups across various settings that include orders, schools, churches, prisons and universities.
The process is always the same: transforming communication by removing blame, shame and criticism.
Our work takes place locally as well as internationally. Our combined experiences help us understand the universal nature of human relationships and connection regardless of personal, cultural and/or socio-economic status.
My mission in life is to ensure that I live connected to and contribute to life Love, Authenticity and Peace, living from a consciousness that values everyone’s universal human needs equally and connects with the divine energy and inherent unity of all life.
1989: Teaching Diploma for Special Needs Children and Seriously Handicapped Children, Teacher Training College, Graz Austria
1993: Association Montessori Internationale (A.M.I.) Diploma for Special Education and the Primary Classroom (3-6), Aktion Sonnenschein – Hilfe für das mehrfachbehinderte Kind e.V., Munich Germany
1998: Birth of my Daughter Gloria
2000: M.A. in Counselling, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA, USA
2001: Birth of my Daughter Anu
2006: Certified Trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication
2008: Instituted Elana Sabajon & Associates, LLC
2010: 1st CD: 3 short and easy Meditations to Self-Connection
2010: ‘What’s going on? Cards
