Testimonials

“Alan has a unique ability to understand and teach some of the most important ideas and practices of sustainability.”

“Alan has a unique ability to understand and teach some of the most important ideas and practices of sustainability. He is a visionary as well as a grounded, clear and engaging educator as well as walking the talk with real poise and integrity. If you want a powerful set of conceptual and practical tools to make your commitment to a sustainable future effective, I highly recommend his courses.”

~ VICKI ROBIN, Coauthor: Your Money or Your Life; Author: Blessing the Hands that Feed Us: Cofounder: New Road Map Foundation, Conversation Cafe – Whidbey Is., WA, USA

“Alan represents the best of the next generation.”

“I have very high regard for Alan. My opinion is that he knows his stuff backwards and forwards, is creative in synthesizing understandings, and lives with ENORMOUS integrity. I find him to be very inspiring – and am encouraged that he represents the best of the next generation.”

~ LUCY LEU, CNVC Certified Trainer; Former President of the Board, Center for Nonviolent Communication; Author: Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook: A Practical Guide for Individual, Group or Classroom Study – Vancouver, Canada

“Alan helped me to focus on my goals and find my inner strength and courage to become my greatest version.”

“Alan is a tremendous resource, he helped me to focus on my goals and find my inner strength and courage to become my greatest version. Alan has a unique ability to convey complex theories and adapt them into everyday practical use; I highly recommend Alan and Cascadia Workshops.”

~ KOFI DEBRAH, Consultant, Event Organizer, Co-Founder & Partner of Oko Forests – Accra, Ghana

“Alan focuses on catching customer’s conscious and unconscious needs to generate high impact.”

“Working with Alan as coach and mentor has been an amazing experience with positive and practical impacts in how I understand and focus my professional and personal life.

Alan knows how to walk the field that lies beyond the technical separations between coaching, mentoring, consulting, training and other related disciplines. He focuses on catching customer’s conscious and unconscious needs to generate high impact. I recommend Alan’s work if you want to generate changes and open new opportunities in any domain of your life.”

~ PAOLA VALERI, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Coach – Madrid, Spain

“Transformative in a way that I could not have foreseen — combines structure and direction with empathy and kindness in a way that engages heart and mind to find pathways through professional and personal challenges”

“Working with Alan has been transformative in a way that I could not have foreseen. I began the work to deal with some blocks and issues around money as I start a new social enterprise, but have found that that was a first step in a much deeper journey into understanding myself and how I see myself in the world. Alan is a pleasure to work with and combines structure and direction with empathy and kindness in a way that engages heart and mind to find pathways through professional and personal challenges that build confidence. He delivers all of it with profound listening, warmth and humour. I recommend him unreservedly.”

~ JANE MURRAY, Lawyer, Investor, Nonprofit Founder – London, England

“My friendships and business relationships have been strengthened as a result of Alan’s teachings and insights.”

“Working with Alan Seid has made a significant difference in how I present myself to the world. I used to avoid certain conversations that were tough for me, which in turn would cause friction or distance in that particular relationship.

Since learning about presence, empathy, connection and how to focus on each other’s needs in a given situation, I have learned to approach those tough conversations from a place of love and connection. My friendships and business relationships have been strengthened as a result of Alan’s teachings and insights.

Alan is not only a great coach and trainer, but he is an amazing role model for what he teaches.”

~ KIM REDDINGTON, Entrepreneur, Technology Expert, Business Coach, Mom, Wife, Daughter

“Alan will greatly improve any project he is involved with!”

“We have known Alan for more than a decade as both a workshop leader and marketing consultant and we have always ben impressed with his clarity; his professionalism; his deep understanding of the people as well as the issues of a project; his ability to see what is needed in any given situation; his generosity; and—not least—his care and love.

If you need help with creating or marketing your workshop Alan is your man. He will greatly improve any project he is involved with!”

~ RONIT CORRY, Connection Workshops Co-Founder; Senior Teacher of The Alexander Technique; Dog Whisperer; Dog Trainer; Dog Behaviorist
~ ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ, Connection Workshops Co-Founder

“True for all great teachers”

“Alan, I was glad to have found the time (even at the last minute) to sit down and have a conversation with you about your work. You obviously love your work, and that love infuses what you do. In my experience, this is true for all great teachers and unsubstitutable.”

~ LAIRD SCHAUB, Facilitator and Facilitation Trainer; Executive Secretary, Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC)

“I’m now able to secure contracts with the kind of people I love working with.”

“Working with Alan allowed me to shift from having little confidence that I would be taken seriously to trusting 100% that I have something precious to offer. The tools and advice he shared with me enable me to have great conversations with potential clients: I am clear how I can help and they find that inspiring. I’m now able to secure contracts with the kind of people I love working with. Being clear about my life purpose and the gifts i am bringing to the world helps me stay in choice as to what I want and don’t want to take on. I feel privileged to have undertaken this journey of self-discovery and increased competency.

Alan has been a great guide! I’m recommending him without hesitation.”

~ VÉRÉNE NICOLAS, Organizational Consultant, Coach, and CNVC Certified Trainer – Scotland, UK

“With Alan I am clarifying my motivations, my life direction, and he’s helping me enjoy my ideal life.”

“Working with Alan has helped me to become clear on my motivations and direction in life. If that wasn’t enough he is also supporting me to shorten my learning curve and enjoy my ideal life! These skills are proving to work not only with my private practice but also in school and with my family.”

~ MICAH SHANSER, CEO of Optimal OPTML, MA in Counseling Psychology, Wilderness Therapy Expert — Bellingham, Washington, USA

“My experience has been profoundly deep and very practical.”

“Alan is well studied and well practiced in his work. I probably learned as much from observing and sensing his energy when he interacts and talks with people as from his 6 week course.

What an inspiration!

I often hold Alan (with his calm and intentional way of being) in my mind when I am getting my creative juices flowing on how I might approach a communication challenge – and it has always helped. I thought I would get something from the course that would help me on a ‘surface level’ but my experience has been profoundly deep and very practical. I am very grateful.”

~ CINDI LANDRETH, Vice-President A1 Builders and Adaptations Design Studio; Transition Whatcom, Live Workshop Series Participant

“If you’re looking to bring your gifts to the world, but you just need a bit (or a lot!) more clarity and focus, I cannot recommend Alan enough.”

“Going into my last session with Alan, I felt overwhelmed, stressed, and stretched thin…I felt like I was treading water and it was exhausting. Afterwards, I felt the most energized and excited about my life and my direction than I have in weeks (probably since my last call with him).

Alan offers both his authentic presence and sincere empathy, AND his experience and ideas and strategies. I feel SO lucky to be working with him and to have his support while I journey down the path of starting my own business and bringing to the world what I care about most. If you’re looking to bring your gifts to the world, but you just need a bit (or a lot!) more clarity and focus, I cannot recommend Alan enough.”

~ AIMEE RYAN, Entrepreneur, CNVC Certified Trainer, Facilitator, Mediator, Organizational Consultant, Yoga Teacher – Portland, OR, USA

“Our workplace culture is more harmonious and positive than ever before.”

“The interpersonal dynamics of our store were transformed by the NVC workshop that Alan led. The result is that our workplace culture is more harmonious and positive than ever before.”

~ STEPHEN TRINKAUS, Owner & General Manager, Bellingham Public Market and Terra Grocery Store

“You up-leveled the experience for us all!”

“Alan, your lucid presence (which called us all to greater presence) combined with your command of the concepts and your ease/simplicity in presenting them were not only a pleasure to experience.

You up-leveled the center of gravity of the entire conversation/experience for us all. When that happens, I believe the material gets in deeply and really works people over time. They contemplate it more afterwards because it penetrates their inner life.

A deep bow to you….I so see and appreciate how you have developed yourself to be the great teacher I beheld. I loved presenting with you as well, AND I learned so much from who you are..”

~ SANDRA POULSON, Organization Effectiveness Specialist, Environmental Protection Agency; Co-Presenter, Integral Sustainability 101, presented for the EOS Alliance, Seattle, Washington.

“Your workshop helped immensely.”

“Alan, my sincerest appreciation for you and your abilities to provide me with some skills to more effectively, healthfully communicate with my children. Your workshop has helped immensely. After only 6 weeks I am more aware of how I experience the world, people, and myself in a more healthful, positive and intelligent manner than before your class.

Compassion and empathy has always been difficult for me to express and provide. Your experience and crafted guidance along with the support and security of the group has helped me transition my perspectives and approach, in general, and with some serious immediate issues. I feel motivated to integrate NVC more fully and deeply into how I relate and communicate with myself and others. NVC appears to me as one of the best strategies for the most potential of positive social change.

Thank you again for all you do, have done and the social changes you are creating. I’m impressed.”

~ TOM BRENTON, Principal, Azimuth Homes, Live Workshop Series Participant

“Instrumental in helping me retrain my perception.”

“Finally I got it down! Alan has been instrumental in helping me retrain my perception and communication away from what had become self-destructive thought patterns and practices.”

~ JAY DARLING, Live Workshop Series Participant (5 years before joining the Cascadia Workshops team)

“After speaking with you I am feeling confident, clear and determined.”

“Thank you SO much for your support for this ‘radically cooperative’ concept!

When our project happens you will be one of the reasons that it does! After speaking with you I am feeling confident, clear, and determined…”

~ CHARMINE MALLIPUDI, Changemaker, Healer, Bodyworker, Entrepreneur

“A caring ally offering clear and useful tools for developing my program”

“Working with Alan is like having a caring partner to my creation. Offering very clear and useful tools for developing my own program.
He has been my ally all along – walking with me in empathy and togetherness, cheering and supportive, holding the space without pressuring – so that what lived in me, could take concrete shape and be brought into the world.
Thank you.”

~ AGA RZEWUSKA-PACA, Coach, Mentor, Mother, Author, CNVC Certified Trainer – Poland

Knowledge, Clarity, Integrity

“Possessing an intellect and wealth of knowledge that doctoral students would envy, Alan Rafael Seid brings a quality of clarity to his work and training that is a rare commodity. I know few people who live so completely in harmony with their espoused values.”

~ WES TAYLOR, CNVC Certified Trainer, Organizational Development Specialist, Service Excellence Coordinator, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

“…intelligent, empathic, humanizing, values-based, and savvy…”

Working with Alan is wonderful.

His support is intelligent, empathic, humanizing, values-based, and savvy to ways that work.

~ LUKE CONCANNON, Chart-topping singer songwriter, Activist – Boston, MA, USA

“From working with Alan I now communicate my truths with confidence and in a way that brings me closer to people.”

“From working with Alan I now communicate my truths with confidence and in a way that brings me closer to people. I also am now known by my peers and family as a great listener and am someone who they entrust with their raw feelings and experiences.

Thank you, Alan, for building up my ability to show up and be proud in my honesty and empathy. I needed these abilities: for my initiation into true adulthood, in my growth journey to arrive at more wholeness, joy, and connection, and to add depth to my relationships. Plus, I’ve gained a genuine friend and mentor.”

~ DAVID NEINSTEIN, Business Founder and Community Developer