MEET THE TEAM
Lisa is passionate about NVC and is deeply invested in supporting individuals, couples and families by teaching communication skills and offering tools to bring more ease, peace, connection, empathy and problem-solving into their lives.
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Lisa also works with small businesses, non-profit and faith-based organizations, and schools to find effective methods to improve communication with staff and customers, solve problems and increase productivity and worker satisfaction.
She is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Lisa has lived and worked in Ann Arbor, MI since 1977, raising her children and working for the last 18 years as a school social worker for Washtenaw Intermediate School District in the Court-Involved Youth Program, where she initiated the facility's first vegetable gardens and teaches yoga and mindfulness. Lisa is a co-founder of Selma Café, a non-profit local food and breakfast party that supports sustainable agriculture.
Rob supports people in creating fulfilling romantic partnerships through the Couples Focus organization he founded in 2019.
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He draws upon skills from Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Relational Life Therapy to shed light on the dynamics of each particular relationship.
He coaches individuals and couples to create & sustain fulfilling romantic relationships. He teaches workshops on relationship skills. He leads groups for men to facilitate intimacy, vulnerability, and empathy.
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Rob's previous career was as a consultant and data scientist. He worked primarily with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies around the world to help them collect and use to data to optimize their manufacturing processes.