Polychronis Kokkinidis  (www.skplaw.gr)

Attorney-at-law with the Athens Bar Association, holder of a Law Degree from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, specialized in International & European Studies, holder of an International MBA (Athens School of Economics), certified mediator (Piraeus Mediation Center & Ministry of Justice – in commercial, consumer and family cases and in school mediation), accredited mediators’ trainer (Toolkit Company), neutral in the e-platform Youstice / Euro – ODR (online dispute resolution), accredited negotiator (IMI, ACB Foundation), Diploma in Negotiation (Athens School of Economics), founding member of the Hellenic Mediation Society. He has many years of experience in business and employment law, in deal negotiation and contract drafting, as well as in civil and commercial law litigation.

Dimitra Gavriil (LinkedIn profile)

Attorney-at-law with the Athens Bar Association since 1999, dialogue facilitator and facilitation trainer, certified mediator and accredited mediation trainer. She holds a JD and an LLM in EU Law from the University of Strasbourg (France). She is specialized in conflict resolution, restorative practices and participatory leadership which she implements in diverse settings that extend from businesses to schools to prisons. She has translated into Greek Kenneth Cloke’s & Joan Goldsmith’s book “Resolving conflicts at work: 10 strategies for everyone on the job” (ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2014). She is co-founder and / or member in several domestic and international conflict resolution organisations, a JAMS Weinstein International Fellow on mediation and restorative justice (USA) and the Director of European Programs for Prison of Peace (USA). She is fluent in Greek, English and French.

George Tsitsirigos (non-violence.gr)

He studied pharmaceuticals at the University of Athens. He worked in the health field for several years, in Greece and abroad. A few years ago he dedicated himself to the training field. He got first acquainted with M. Rosenberg’s Non Violent Communication in 2007. Ever since 2011 he is intensively engaged with this process, holding experiential trainings, practice groups and presentations and inviting certified NVC trainers to Greece, in order to share their knowledge and experience with the Greek audience. He has translated into Greek M. Rosenberg’s essential book “Non Violent Communication, a language of life”. He is part of many groups of volunteers, where he applies the principles of NVC as a way of decision making process and mediation. He is a CNVC certified trainer.