Ceri Buckmaster

Name: Ceri Buckmaster

Location: London, England

I spend my days supporting people and groups to venture into more transparent communication, to explore creative possibilities through conflict, and to find the unexpected purpose of why a conflict has emerged in the first place. At the same time, I support people to nurture a deeper kinder relationship with themselves.

I have been navigating life through a needs-based perspective since 2010 and supporting groups to navigate conflict and reassess their implicit and explicit agreements about how they work since 2015.  I learn from, in an ongoing way,  the Nonviolent practitioners Miki Kashtan, Roxy Manning, Sarah Peyton and Dominic Barter. 

Since 2015, I have been practising a somatic form of Nonviolent Communication, drawing on the work of Sarah Peyton, which focuses on how resonant language can bring relief and clarity to our distress and trauma. I became a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication in 2017.

In 2023, I became a Contemporary Interfaith Minister (OneSpirit) and I see my communication and conflict work as my ministry. I support people to rehumanise each other and become more of who they are by finding compassion, clarity, confidence and creativity.

In 2023,  I trained in Somatics with Staci Haines and have been apprenticing in other somatic modalities of Sound and Voicework and Mindful Somatics so that my communication is trauma-informed, and integrated and coming from the body.

I provide communication support and mediate with people in various kinds of organisations, relationship structures and social settings. I create conditions and spaces for conflict to be journeyed through and grief to be expressed, supporting people to see the power structures and related thought and communication patterns they are operating with, so that they can begin to do things differently

My success is based on being as grounded, humble, clear, transparent, and as low on jargon as possible with people in trainings and groups in conflict, and I consistently show up to accompany people through challenging times.  

I am based in London and you’ll find me in the parks and cafes, often mulling on a conflict or collaboration dilemma.