David Weinstock
Director and Lead trainer
David is a certified Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute and Stuart Heller’s Five Rings Coaching Institute. He is a certified international trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a teacher and practitioner of Aikido for 30 years. He offers individual coaching, workshops and classes designed to help his clients develop their abilities to self-direct, self-generate, and navigate through the complexities of life with greater clarity and integrity. He leads trainings locally and around the world—in his community, schools, prisons, and communities on four continents.
David draws from 35 years experience as an entrepreneur and artisan. As a respected Master Goldsmith he helped to create Green Karat, an organization which tackles the environmental hazards of the gold industry by promoting recycled, post-consumer gold and stones. David is currently a board member and co-founder of Peace Dojo International. This is an organization that works for peace and justice by means of self- mastery and community service with the martials arts as its medium. He co-founded Peaceworks Productions, a company that produces benefits for environmental and political non-profit organizations. In addition, David serves as Executive Director of Community Artworks, an organization devoted to helping community leaders manifest their dreams through the practice of fully embodied skills and actions.
David and his wife Judith co-founded an intentional community, where they have raised their family over the past twenty years. They have devoted their adult lives to practicing community, committing themselves to an integrated and intentional way of life.
All of Weinstock’s work is based on building our connection to one another and to nature. He is committed to building our capacity to value what each of us brings to the circle so we can reclaim community and value diversity so we can sustain life on this planet.
Judith Weinstock
Associate Trainer
Judith became partners at 17 in her first collective restaurant, Soup and Salad in the Pike Place Market (now the Soundview Café). The collective practiced consensus decision-making and at the time (1970’s), was one of three of the most successful collectives in Seattle, including Little Bread Company and Community Produce (which later became Nutra-Source, then Mountain Peoples, culminating in what is now United Foods, one of the largest national alternative/organic, wholesaling warehouses in the country). She left the collective to go to Evergreen State College. Needing to support herself through college, she started The Corner Café (1979, A Dorm). At its height, the collective numbered 21 members, and lasted over 20 years. Judith graduated from The Evergreen State College in 1982.
After graduating from Evergreen, Judith became partners with three other women in the award-winning Northwest Best Places “Streamliner Diner” restaurant in Winslow, Washington, co-authoring the best-selling cookbook , “The Streamliner Diner cookbook” (Ten Speed Press). After selling the Diner in 1991, she started the Kingston Hotel Café in 1993, also in Northwest Best Places and published “The Old Kingston Hotel Café Cookbook” (Sasquatch Press). She is currently working on a new book, documenting 15 years of teaching a curriculum she has developed, titled “Humanities Through Food”. This curriculum integrates History, Ethics, Food Politics, Agriculture, Culture, Science/Chemistry, Nutrition, Environmental and Social Justice issues through food and the art of cooking.
While attending Evergreen, Judith co-founded an A Capella trio, We Three, in 1979. They wrote and arranged all of their music and recorded three albums. They toured from Santa Cruz to Vancouver, B.C. for ten years and shared the stage and performed with Holly Near, Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey In The Rock and Ferron. Judith has taught voice and guitar for many years.
In 1990, Judith and her husband, David, co-founded a land-based intentional community, Wise Acres with eight other households in Indianola, Washington. The community practices consensus decision-making, and shares in common a year-round organic garden, orchard and common house. Two of the original members bought and started a CSA farm next door in 2002. The farm is an intimate part of the larger community. Their understanding of consensus decision-making has evolved from long-term commitment and practice in the context of family, community and grassroots political organizing.
Judith has studied Nonviolent Communication for over ten years and has been fortunate to personally work with Marshall Rosenburg, Robert Gonzales and Lucy Leu. She and her husband, David, have taught classes over seas and at home.
In these workshops, Judith brings a wealth of experience in the somatic realms of cooking, music, consensus decision-making, community life, Nonviolent communication, and the delight of living together with dignity, authenticity and grace!
