Strength of Connection
Reconciliation • Renewal • Rebuilding
Facilitation
Facilitating dialogue for organizations, communities, and groups navigating polarization, gridlock, or fractured trust.
Workshops
In-person and virtual workshops tailored to your community — whether that's a boardroom, a classroom, or a living room.
Strength of Connection is dedicated to reimagining a world where all people thrive — by strengthening the health of our inner lives, our relationships, and the systems we share. Through dialogue, facilitation, and training, we build the trust, mutual understanding, and collaborative action that lead to lasting change. In a time of deepening polarization, we work at every level — from personal repair and reconciliation to redesigning the systems that shape how we live together. Our work is grounded in Nonviolent Communication™, the life's work of Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg, and in a deep commitment to learning from every person and perspective we encounter.
Kathleen Macferran
Kathleen Macferran is an author, facilitator, and Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She travels internationally working with individuals, families, community groups, businesses, schools, and incarcerated populations.
Kathleen is the author of Calling In the Dawn: Shaping Our Future through Authentic Dialogue, and co-author with Jared Finkelstein of Choice: A Field Guide for Navigating the Polarization of Our World and Living Interdependently. She has also created a children’s book Trilogy (How Giraffes Found Their Hearts, How Giraffes Got Their Ears, and How Giraffes Learned to Talk Bravely), and musical CD Giraffe Tales. She has presented multiple times at TedX.
Upcoming Events
A World Of Connection: A 9-Day (3 Weekends) NVC Online Immersion Training
January 22, 2027 - February 7, 2027 at Online
Reimagine What’s Possible Series (modules 1 & 2) – 7 Day Retreat
March 18, 2027 - March 25, 2027 at Calvin Center
Recent Articles
Learning in the Strength and Support of Community
I’m hungry to be with a group of people who talk authentically about their dreams for the world, the challenges they face and solutions they are discovering to make this world more viable for the...
Hearing You Even When We Disagree
When I hear someone talk and what they are saying raises alarm bells in me because I have a different point of view, I was trained to debate, judge and do my best to prove the other wrong. The...
Finding Strength at Your Core
There’s a space within myself that I draw my strength from. In this space live my essential qualities, my experiences, my hopes, my learning, my sense of non-negotiable self-worth. I believe I had a...