Who are we?
Hello! We are Enric and Raed, NonViolent Communication (NVC) enthusiasts and co-founders of simple.cat.
We met in 2007 in a weekly NVC practice group started by Helen Adamson in Sant Cugat del Vallès, near Barcelona. For individual and group exercises, we used “home-made” materials and, after a few years, we decided to join our efforts to make more professional training tools and simple.cat was born.
Since then we have continued to create and incorporate new resources and books for all levels: from beginners to advanced practitioners.
Our goal is to be THE one-stop shop to find all materials that help us to learn, integrate and disseminate new ways of relating more harmoniously, empathically and effectively.
All our Team
Enric is responsible for Administration, Production and Logistics, and is the project’s co-founder along with Raed.
Associated with the corporate world for many years, he balances out his work in simple.cat with other professional projects.
He loves enjoying each minute 100% and being able to see the positive side of everything makes him happy.
He learned about NonViolent Communication by chance when he stumbled into a workshop. “NVC grabbed me immediately. When I realized what it was about, I told myself ‘I want more of this’.”
Raed is responsible for Creation and Design. He is an advisor for Applied NVC, and is the co-founder of the project along with Enric.
He is also the co-author of the book “la corazón” with Roxana. Together, they offer talks and workshops sharing NVC and have recently created Ediciones Corazonable, a book publishing company with the goal of spreading more consciousness.
Raed loves playing and listening to music, laughing with friends, graphic design and animals (especially cats).
He learned about NonViolent Communication in 2005 from its creator, Marshall Rosenberg, in the USA, and his life was changed forever. “I decided to switch careers and professional objectives because I couldn’t believe that no one had ever taught me these resources before.”
Roxana is an advisor on Emotional Education and Applied NVC. She is also responsible for internal relations and group cohesion, Creativity and R&D.
She offers Body Awareness and Expression workshops to promote communication and emotional management. She is the co-author of two books: “la corazón o el arte de poner orden sin dar órdenes” and “Agámicos. Un negocio fértil”.
She enjoys and celebrates life with a sense of love and humor.
Learning about NVC has allowed her to un-learn unconscious patterns of violence and learn to be more compassionate. “I wish that everyone could connect with themselves in order to relate in a more loving way, therefore contributing to taking care of our world”.
Olympia is responsible for Marketing and campaigns, Social Networks and Project Management. She is also an adviser in the areas of Education and Parenting.
She is a High School teacher and a Coach for teenagers. She enjoys being a mother, singing, dancing and discovering new things. She is passionate about Psychology and Art. She loves cats and hopes to one day turn into a little old lady living with many of them.
She learned about NonViolent Communication from her partner and that led her to want to learn more, attending many NVC trainings. “Collaborating with simple.cat is the best way of contributing to share NonViolent Communication and, that way, helping to create a more loving world”.
Why “simple”?
We believe that a more meaningful life can be created by a process of simplifying. We want to push for a simpler life, focused on re-finding our balance and inner peace.
Eliminating all that is not “essential” gets us closer to our “essence.”
That is why we create tools that help us distinguish between our habitual tendency for dispersing and accumulating, and our simpler and deeper needs, those who can get us to a longer-lasting satisfaction.
Why «.cat»?
Within our momentum toward globalization and “monoculture”, we firmly believe that the solutions of the future will involve “local” communities and “biodiversity.” We live in Barcelona and want to use the .cat(alonia) domain to show to support what is small, local and uncommon. That is also why we make a big effort to bring you a multilingual website.
Furthermore, we love cats. And, being a website, this makes sense, because what would the internet be without cats? 😉
