Services

Organizational Consulting

We specialize in co-creating cohesive, productive teams with effective feedback systems, efficient decision making processes, and respectful communication norms that utilize each person’s gifts. Inquire about organizational consulting.

Workshops and Retreats

We offer interactive workshops and retreats for groups of all sizes, utilizing experiential, interpersonal, and reflective activities to inspire vision, motivate change, and build more cohesive communities. Contact us to schedule a workshop or retreat.

Public Speaking

Roxy’s ability to weave parables from her life as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant, combined with her critical thinking about social issues and clarity of vision for social change, moves and inspires audiences from all backgrounds ready for transformation. Inquire about retaining Roxy for a keynote or speech.

Interpersonal Coaching

Our individual and relational coaching focuses on developing NVC consciousness in order to recognize the strength and beauty each individual possesses. Our non-judgmental, insightful coaching supports deep interpersonal and intrapersonal connection and enables lasting healing of the self and relationships. Request information about our coaching services.

Who We’ve Worked With

Stanford University

Google

Lift Economy

M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Pivotal

Marin County NAMI

Tenderloin Housing Clinic

Cutler Institute – University of Southern Maine

Aquatic Park Schools

Segal Benz

Nashville Juvenile Court

San Francisco Family Support Network

San Francisco State University

Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program

Department of Veterans Affairs

South Bay Project Resource

350.org

Augsburg University

Olly

West Valley College

Teach for America

Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists

Gwendolyn Wilson-Cobbs

Psychiatric Social Worker, Retired

Dr. Roxy Manning is among the most amazing human beings I have encountered in my nearly 66 years of living and my several decades as a therapist. I have, on many occasions, participated in retreats Dr. Manning has co-facilitated. I have also had the opportunity to spend time with Dr. Manning beyond the retreats. Her manifest expertise, along with the confident application of her skills, is unsurpassed. I have seen her track, assess and organize myriad and opposing voices and perspectives and usher participants from bedlam into mutually amicable resolutions. It has been a remarkable experience to watch Dr. Manning interact with people of varying levels of education, disparate life experiences and exceedingly intense feelings and, from that chaos, support participant growth from a group of individuals into a team of people who feel heard, respected, supported and even loving toward each other. Though I am now retired, I was a therapist for over 40 years. During that time I have never seen anyone better at group or individual work than Dr. Manning. Without reservation, I would recommend Dr. Manning to anyone who is interested in individual, group, organizational or systemic expansion, awareness and/or healing.

By modeling vulnerability in sharing her own experiences, she created a space where team members could tap into our own histories in order to gain understanding and clarity together.

Erika Arthur

Cutler Institute, University of Southern Maine

Roxy Manning is a brilliant, skillful, kind, funny, and inspiring teacher. Our team sought her out because we had some NVC training behind us and we wanted to bring in an intentional focus on equity and anti-racism. Somehow, Roxy managed to simultaneously break down and build up the core assumptions of NVC: what’s up with “universal” needs in a world built on the fundamental inequities of racism, sexism, ableism, etc? How can we ask everyone to call on feelings when we’re not all allowed to express all feelings freely, or worse yet, some of us (namely Indigenous, Black, and Brown people) may be harmed for expressing some feelings publicly? What opportunities for connection do we miss, and what strategies for collective wellbeing are hidden, when we don’t consider the systemic context of conflict that arises between people? With a fierce yet gentle approach, Roxy led our team through a powerful learning experience that she had tailored specifically for us. By modeling vulnerability in sharing her own experiences, she created a space where team members could tap into our own histories in order to gain understanding and clarity together. Now, we’re committed to carrying our learnings forward, and hopefully we can train with Roxy again!

Miki Kashtan

Co-Founder, BayNVC

Roxy is my friend, colleague, former student, co-conspirator, and so much more. As friend, I have deep trust that I can count on Roxy to come through in times of crisis; to tell me the truth and hear the truth about anything that matters; and to delight in my celebrations as easily as she shares hers. As colleague, Roxy is someone I would send just about anywhere instead of me and have no concern about the results. As former student, Roxy has learned, integrated, made her own, and transcended all that she has learned from and with me. As a co-conspirator, Roxy is someone I would plan and execute any project for making a dent in anything in the world. As a “so much more” I have the only sadness: that Roxy is so sought after and so focused, that we hardly have opportunities to collaborate recently.

As former student, Roxy has learned, integrated, made her own, and transcended all that she has learned from and with me. As a co-conspirator, Roxy is someone I would plan and execute any project for making a dent in anything in the world.

Her vulnerability and authenticity make the space one of the safest academic spaces I’ve ever been in.

Emily Polk, PhD

Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University

I have had the honor of attending two of Dr. Manning’s workshops at Stanford and both times I was absolutely blown away by the sheer impact of what she is able to do with us. Her vulnerability and authenticity make the space one of the safest academic spaces I’ve ever been in. Her ability to connect with the heart even as she is deftly facilitating a complex and difficult conversation about universal values, about the contextual nature of privilege and its legacies, about impact and intent, about self-care and care for others, is breathtaking. That during this conversation, she is simultaneously doing the larger and harder work of always moving us toward deeper compassion and genuine empathy—for ourselves, for our communities, and for the world, seems nothing short of miraculous. I cannot think of any work that is more important to be doing right now or anybody who is better at it than Dr. Manning.

Amanda Blaine

CNVC Certified Trainer

My life path has been profoundly shaped by my encounter with Roxy. Before meeting her, I was despairing about doing further Nonviolent Communication training, even though I was so turned on to the practice of NVC, because I didn’t see that my values around racial equity were being incorporated in the way the work was shared or applied. Then I read Roxy’s bio and I felt relief wash through my whole body. I saw in her the integration of two areas of focus that were deeply precious and fundamental to me. In the following years my life was transformed by what I learned with Roxy. She taught me how to understand the world in a way that both holds deep, loving compassion for every human being, and at the same time unflinchingly acknowledges the profound inequalities in access to dignity, justice, and material resources that people in power continue to perpetuate on others. I treasure any opportunity I get to learn with or collaborate with Roxy!