Dr. Miki Kashtan
As a practical visionary bridging compassion and systems change, Miki Kashtan co-founded initiatives fostering societal healing by addressing unmet universal needs. Her frameworks guide justice movements and divided communities to reconcile by appealing to our shared humanity beyond limiting identities.
As co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) and The Social Change Project expanding access to NVC’s unifying principles, Miki Kashtan lives her calling as a practical visionary pursuing a just world through compassionate relating. By exploring how honoring universal needs and shared humanity heal divisions, she guides individuals and groups to transcend polarization’s dehumanizing effects by staying anchored in care and vulnerability.
Grounded in the framework of Nonviolent Communication created by mentor Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Miki works extensively with marginalized communities to nurture empathy, self-compassion, and collaborative trust – illuminating why meeting all people’s core requirements through equitable contribution leads to collectively enriching outcomes.
In acclaimed books like Reweaving Our Human Fabric and her blog The Fearless Heart, Miki models dialogue, mindfulness, and compassion as instruments of reconciliation. Her method convening conflicting groups emphasizes listening instead of reacting, to arrive at mutual solutions including everyone’s well being by recognizing needs over positions. Her courageous facilitation always dwells in that sometimes messy, compassionate middle way, buoying our hearts to trust the power of the storms that swell within us as the path to authentic love within relationship.
“The very short version of my own response is that we separated ourselves from nature at some point in our history, and eventually developed a view of ourselves as creatures that need to be controlled in order for society to exist at all. The result is the world in which we live, which is based on separation, scarcity, and powerlessness.”
– Dr. Miki Kashtan
“Morality for me is on a Soul level – our Souls fundamentally recoil from anything that attends to our needs at the expense of others.”
Her wisdom in The Truth, The Journey Within film demonstrates why embracing universal needs and interdependence is key for inner freedom. By living in mutual compassion beyond fear-based isolation or power-over control, we can co-create systems honoring autonomy. This leads to equitable collaboration thriving through the creative tensions of diversity, from bedrooms to boardrooms to nations.
Whether guiding interpersonal or structural change, Kashtan models conceptual clarity on applying The Language of Compassion paired with radical vision – the pragmatism to translate lofty ideals into grounded action that includes everyone. She knows peace emerges not by demanding one paradigm but by empathically bridging worlds, asking “How can we meet shared needs despite different positions?” Her wisdom supports morally courageous bridge-builders who, despite pushback, stand for possibility by appealing to universal heart truths transcending tribes. Miki’s guidance charts stepwise full-spectrum liberation from judgment’s confines by embodying universal compassion day by day.
The Film
What if what we’ve believed our whole lives is not the truth of who we are or why we are here? The Truth, The Journey Within is a living message―our epic love story in the making. It’s not a secret. It’s The Truth.
The Book
Unveiling The Truth, The Journey Within.
The companion revelation and self-mastery
tools for our global family to reclaim
the sovereign truth of who we are,
beyond the lies of separation.
Great Awakening
Awaken Truth Within Red Pill Accelerator self-mastery course. Innerstanding the spiritual evolutionary context of “who am I” and “why am I here now” is the only real truth worth discovering to set you free…