About the Company

Connection Partners, Inc. helps people with strongly different opinions communicate effectively with each other when they are least able to do so - during times of high conflict, stress, and turmoil, when they are working on a complex task that requires collaborative decision making, - as well as when they seek to improve their communication and enrich their relationship.

Our Co-Founders:

Arlene Brownell and Tom Bache-Wiig co-founded Connection Partners, Inc. in January, 1999.

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Our Vision:

People talking without fighting, listening without fear.

Our Mission:

We Change the Energy of Conflict into the Energy of Solutions.

Our Values:

Integrity. Compassion. Service. Adventure. Peace. Relationship. Authenticity.

Our Beliefs:

• Every person has a piece of the truth.
• Thinking shapes language; language shapes thinking.
• Nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• No matter what anyone says or does, that person is trying to meet their fundamental human needs.

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Our Services:

Facilitation ~ Mediation ~ Training

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Acknowledgment:

Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication^SM (NVC), a communication process for building and maintaining human connection, has been used successfully for over 25 years to reduce and resolve some of the most volatile conflicts in the world. The principals of Connection Partners, Inc. have trained extensively in NVC with Rosenberg and his certified trainers. By agreement, we call our work Non-Adversarial Communication. We are dedicated to using Non-Adversarial Communication to help the individuals and groups with whom we work.