Vanessa Alfaro

Vanessa Alfaro is a communication coach, facilitator, trainer, mediator and an expert in anger transformation. Her business, Vanessa Alfaro – The Empowered Communicator, is based in San Francisco. She works one-to-one with clients and designs dynamic workshops and trainings for organizations and the public. Her trainings incorporate meditation, breathwork, embodied practices, creative expression, ancestral work, and psychology within the Nonviolent Communication paradigm. Because she grew up in a hostile, violent family, she has made it her mission and purpose to help people transform how they relate to and express anger, resolve conflict, and have empowered conversations.

Vanessa is trained in Nonviolent Communication, Somatic Awareness Communication, the Co-Active Coaching Model, Zen and Vipassana Meditation, and the Universal Laws for Mindset/Paradigm Transformation. She holds two mediation certifications from Community Boards of San Francisco and SEEDS Community Resolution Center in Berkeley and has successfully resolved numerous conflicts for the San Francisco community through Community Boards. Vanessa also has a 20-year yoga practice and a lifetime of dance that has developed her deep understanding of embodiment and somatic awareness that she integrates into her work. She received her B.A. from Mills College and her M.S. from Claremont Graduate University.