Ike Lasater (from the USA)  
 

Ike Lasater draws upon a wealth of experience in his approach to "needs based" mediation, facilitation and trainings.

This experience includes trying lawsuits for twenty years – with hundreds of settlement conferences and mediations; co-founding and growing a law firm, that specialized in complex multiparty, document intensive, commercial and environmental cases.

Ike has extensive training in Nonviolent Communication with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. and others, and he has facilitated workshops based on Nonviolent Communication in California, Texas, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Arkansas, Montana, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Ike has served as a member of the board of directors of the Center for Nonviolent Communication 1999-2005 and currently is a member of the board of directors of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California. He served for approximately 20 years on the board of the Lawyers' Club of San Francisco. He co-founded the Yoga Journal and participated in the founding of, and served for many years on the board of directors of, the California Yoga Teachers Association. He is on the mediation panel for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Ike’s experience also includes over three decades of marriage and parenting of three now adult children (who seem to enjoy interacting with their parents); long term practice of aikido, Zen meditation, and yoga. Ike co-founded Words That Work.

>> Read more about Ike, and his journey from Lawyer to NVC Mediator here.
 

Ike's website is www.wordsthatwork.us