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Matthew is passionate about the development of human consciousness: about equipping himself for personal evolution and equipping others with the skills and knowledge to do the same. This passion has led him to work with diverse groups of people in four continents as a teacher, consultant, scholar, and coach. Much of Matthew’s work has been in the field of alternative education and development. He worked under the guidance of Sharon Caldwell at the Nahoon Montessori School in his native South Africa and went on to serve numerous organizations including the Montessori Foundation (USA), the Sustainability (South Africa), the International Montessori Teaching Institute (China), and Nurture International (India). In recent years he has worked with a variety of different organizations and individuals using NVC, for instance in 2011 – among many other projects – he designed an NVC handbook that is being used in an MBA programme at the University of Cape Town, offered NVC training as part of a Montessori Teacher Certification programme, and ran a workshop on the transformative power of empathy at a national Nursing Science Conference in South Africa.

Matthew first begun using NVC in classrooms in 2005 he then went on to study with Marshall Rosenberg and others at an International Intensive Training (IIT) in Switzerland. He is a graduate of BayNVC's 9-month Parent Peer Leadership Program (2007) as well as the leading year-long North American NVC Leadership Program (2008). He has studied NVC based mediation with John Kinyon and Ike Lasater and explored the educational applications of NVC with Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson. In addition he has studied under a number of leading NVC trainers including Miki Kashtan, Kelly Bryson, Marianne Gothlin, Jorge Rubio, Bridget Belgrave, and Francois Beausoleil. Matthew was an assistant trainer for BayNVC’s 2009-2010 Parent Peer Leadership Program, an assistant in both the adult and children’s programmes at the New York Residential NVC Intensive in 2009, and regularly assists John Kinyon in his teleconference mediation trainings. 

Matthew is a Certified Life Coach and certification candidate at the international Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC); he is presently reading a graduate degree in Integral Psychology at the International Centre for Integral Studies (ICIS). He lives together with his life partner Anneke in Utrecht, the Netherlands.