David Shindoll, CNVC Certified Trainer and cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Compassionate Communication Network, has spent over 25 years creating environments based on mutual understanding and respect, boundaries based on needs, and an empowering compassion. David is passionate about learning, living, and sharing practices that transform how we relate to others and ourselves that are in alignment with our deepest values for truth, contribution, and love.
David holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Colorado College and a master’s degree in education from Loyola University. David has worked with children and their families for over 25 years in a variety of contexts from villages for abandoned children in Costa Rica, to Montessori schools in Taiwan, Bolivia, and the United States. David has been a teacher trainer in language at the Montessori Education Center of the Rockies and currently works as an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado. David’s study of nonviolence also includes Focusing, yoga, and meditation practices.