Ceri Buckmaster is a group facilitator, mediator and writer. (Some of her writing is available here). She works in Sustainability and Community building with organisations, museums, galleries, schools, community groups and individuals. Her work facilitates clear and transparent interpersonal communication, greater understanding of trauma and the walking towards and holding of conflicts with presence and opening for transformation.
In her work, she accompanies people to walk towards the things we most want to avoid; conflict, trauma, grief, loss, fear. We now know that the brain is hardwired to respond to the experience of being accompanied with empathy and resonance and that the limbic alarm system and patterns of reactivity can be changed. It's the accompaniment that's important. We ARE made to be accompanied. It is so much harder to deal with conflict and heal from trauma alone.
She is currently working on increasing space for sharing grief and loss. She helps organisations build restorative systems and increase resilience in meeting conflict. She runs Personal Safety, empowerment and nonviolent protection workshops for women and Bystander intervention trainings. She also runs training in Empathy Skills.
In 2017, she became a Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication. She is a founder member of the Conflict Transformation Weave for the Nonviolent Communication UK network. In 2015, she trained in Repairing Childhood Pain and Trauma with Sarah Peyton and Susan Skye (Munich, Germany). and she is participating in ongoing training in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Sarah Peyton. In 2013, she participated in the Leadership programme in Nonviolent Communication, San Francisco, California. She participated in the Diploma in Group facilitation and conflict resolution at the NAOS Institute, London in 2015/2016. She has trained in Restorative Circles, Dialogue Road Map and NVC Mediation.
Other work
She ran the Invisible Food project in London between 2008 and 2013, a project commissioned originally by Artangel as part of an investigation into Temporary Automonous Zones (TAZ). Invisible Food aimed to reconnect Londoners to nature, to each other and to themselves. She published Street Food: Urban foraging and world food in 2013.
Together with Virginia Nimarkoh, she developed the Cook like a Caribbean project, showing global and historical influences on Caribbean food, at Myatt’s Fields Park. (2014)
In 2006, she participated in The Body Politic, an interdisciplinary training in Arts, Activism and Social and Ecological justice run by Platform at Birkbeck College. Participation in this course led her to set up Invisible Food.
In her work, she accompanies people to walk towards the things we most want to avoid; conflict, trauma, grief, loss, fear. We now know that the brain is hardwired to respond to the experience of being accompanied with empathy and resonance and that the limbic alarm system and patterns of reactivity can be changed. It's the accompaniment that's important. We ARE made to be accompanied. It is so much harder to deal with conflict and heal from trauma alone.
She is currently working on increasing space for sharing grief and loss. She helps organisations build restorative systems and increase resilience in meeting conflict. She runs Personal Safety, empowerment and nonviolent protection workshops for women and Bystander intervention trainings. She also runs training in Empathy Skills.
In 2017, she became a Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication. She is a founder member of the Conflict Transformation Weave for the Nonviolent Communication UK network. In 2015, she trained in Repairing Childhood Pain and Trauma with Sarah Peyton and Susan Skye (Munich, Germany). and she is participating in ongoing training in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Sarah Peyton. In 2013, she participated in the Leadership programme in Nonviolent Communication, San Francisco, California. She participated in the Diploma in Group facilitation and conflict resolution at the NAOS Institute, London in 2015/2016. She has trained in Restorative Circles, Dialogue Road Map and NVC Mediation.
Other work
She ran the Invisible Food project in London between 2008 and 2013, a project commissioned originally by Artangel as part of an investigation into Temporary Automonous Zones (TAZ). Invisible Food aimed to reconnect Londoners to nature, to each other and to themselves. She published Street Food: Urban foraging and world food in 2013.
Together with Virginia Nimarkoh, she developed the Cook like a Caribbean project, showing global and historical influences on Caribbean food, at Myatt’s Fields Park. (2014)
In 2006, she participated in The Body Politic, an interdisciplinary training in Arts, Activism and Social and Ecological justice run by Platform at Birkbeck College. Participation in this course led her to set up Invisible Food.
