Penny Spawforth

At the Oxford (UK) AT congress in 2006 Penny heard the keynote address from Bridget Belgrave on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and that set her on a parallel path of discovering what it means to listen and speak and live from an internal place of nonviolence (originally translated from the Sanskrit word Ahimsa). Certifying to be an NVC trainer in 2012, she now offers NVC mediation and training alongside her AT teaching as well as setting up and becoming one of the Directors of a not-for-profit company in 2020 – called NVC Matters – to support NVC being discovered in the UK.

Having trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington in London, she was also greatly influenced by her lessons with Margaret Goldie.

Penny lives and works in Wales, UK