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Marco Bertaglia
D-82405 Wessobrunn
+49 176 61888676
+39 334 2498125
marco@marcobertaglia.eu
Marco Bertaglia
Hello!
I am a trainer and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in Nonviolent Communication, conflict transformation and regenerative community projects.
Before devoting myself fully to this work, I worked for many years as an environmental scientist and programme officer in European institutions, with a focus on agroecology, sustainability and rural development.
Today, I bring together analytical and systemic understanding with empathy-based dialogue, mediation, participatory methods and a deep commitment to a world rooted in care, cooperation and ecological awareness.
Aware-Parenting
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Why I do this work
I am moved by the vision of a world that works for all.
I am fascinated by the idea of nonviolence as embodied by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Togetherness that brings us closer, where both my needs and your needs matter equally. Where win-win solutions abound.
I want to move from domination, scarcity, separation and powerlessness, towards dialogue, togetherness, choice and cooperation.
I am awed by the diverse spaces I have been called to contribute to. I am enthused by acting as a bridge between worlds as different as the corridors of power in the EU Institutions and grassroots social movements, business meeting rooms and urban pedagogical farms.
I find hope in working with babies, children, and the adults that accompany them, to infuse love and empathy in our world's possible future.
My professional path
My professional path brings together two main fields: environmental science and nonviolence.
I studied forestry in Italy, environmental sciences & management in Belgium, and agricultural sciences (policy, rural sociology) in Germany. I later worked in European institutions, including the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, on sustainability and agroecology.
I discovered Nonviolent Communication in 2000 and began sharing it in 2001. It became the foundation of my work in conflict transformation, mediation, group facilitation and participatory processes.
After years in research and public institutions, I founded a regenerative community project in the Alps of north-west Italy. Today, I increasingly support individuals, families, teams, organisations and communities through training, mediation, facilitation and one-to-one accompaniment.
My continuing learning focuses especially on psychology, trauma, early life, parental and family support.
Foundations of my work
My inspiration draws upon many sources.
The deepest and most life-changing source is Nonviolent Communication, as gifted to the world by Marshall B. Rosenberg. It is the main seed of everything I offer.
Aware Parenting is another central source of inspiration: a way of accompanying babies, toddlers, children, parents and educators with empathy, trust in children’s emotional life and self-healing competences, and care for each person’s blossoming.
My work in mediation and group processes has been profoundly enriched by Miki Kashtan’s work, especially Convergent Facilitation and the Nonviolent Global Liberation community. I also integrate deep experience and inspiration from Dominic Barter’s work on dialogical systems, regenerative circles and restorative justice.
My ecological vision is nourished by agroecology, especially the tradition associated with Miguel Altieri, by the original ethics and design principles of permaculture, by Gian Carlo Cappello’s Agricoltura Elementare, and by the scientific findings of the IPBES Global Assessment.
The wider work
I have built up several aspects of my dream-vision over a couple of decades and eventually founded “Comunità rigenerative” in 2021. This was a visionary project to recreate community on abandoned terraced land in the Alps in NW Italy, and create an ecovillage from an abandoned hamlet in the woods about 850 m high.
While the vision encountered drawbacks and the original project is currently on hold and due to start anew somewhere else in the future, seeds have germinated in a nonprofit that continues to operate at a less radical scale, and provides opportunities to keep old knowledge alive, and support local livelihood. You can read more about this experiment here.
A passion for languages
I am passionate about languages. I would like to speak all the languages of the world!
I began learning English as a child in Italy and fell in love with it through songs, books, letters and friendships. French became part of my life in Belgium, where I studied, worked and later wrote my Master’s thesis. Spanish came through travel and voluntary work in Latin America, especially Peru.
German entered my life through my doctoral studies in Germany — and much later became part of my family life and everyday work in Bavaria.
Today I work fluently in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. I also have some very basic knowledge of Portuguese (that I can fully read, passively) and Esperanto, and have explored, with joy, small bits of Arabic, Bembe, Dutch, Hindi, Mooré and Norwegian.