There’s nothing wrong with you.

Hi there ..

I’m Rachelle. I’m in my sixties and for as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with relationships and human behaviour. Why do we do what we do? What drives us? What is freedom? What is wisdom? How does a person maintain sanity in a consumer driven culture? What makes life worth living? I enjoy circling around the deeper questions.

And from what I can tell, we are living in perilous times. Levels of anxiety, depression, alienation, loneliness, relationship ruptures .. these are all on the rise. It’s not because there’s something wrong with us. Rather, the solid foundations required to live soundly .. foundations built on intergenerational continuity and legacy, deep care for our land and ancestors, shared understanding of what constitutes maturity and responsibility, key rites of passage, dedication to the collective whole, kindness towards others .. these are being eroded as individuality becomes increasingly central to our orientation to life. Healthy relating requires that we know something about both the inner world of the human and the world that humans are immersed in. Let’s dig in!

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Rachelle’s Bio

Rachelle Lamb is a recognized speaker, writer, poet, teacher, Nonviolent Communication℠ trainer and relationship coach. She brings an earthy, practical yet innovative wisdom to her work curated over decades of study drawing from cultural anthropology, psychology, history, poetry, storytelling and deep ecology. Her synthesis of these disciplines provides a rich and fertile scaffolding for transformational dialogue and consistently produces powerful learning experiences for individuals and audiences who cite the learning as profound and life-changing.

Grateful to many teachers over the decades, Rachelle has been most influenced by mentors Dr. Marshall Rosenberg and Stephen Jenkinson. She met best selling author and international peacemaker Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in 2000. Drawn to Rosenberg’s revolutionary approach to communication and resolving conflict, Rachelle trained with him and was certified in 2002. (She is currently Canada’s most senior active trainer.) In 2010, Rachelle met Stephen Jenkinson, subject of the NFB documentary film Griefwalker. Jenkinson's work with the dying and his compelling insights into the making of healthy human culture struck a deep chord. She attended Jenkinson’s Orphan Wisdom School (Ontario Canada) from 2011 to 2022.

“Our most important work is to create the conditions for deepening our humanity, especially in this critical time when we are so unsure of where we are and how we got here.” —Rachelle Lamb

Rachelle is available for interviews and can be reached via email.

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Rachelle and Marshall

I love this photo!

Yep that’s me with Marshall Rosenberg back in 2002. A small group of us had organized a workshop for Marshall in Victoria and this picture was taken after the event.

Clearly I was smitten!! To this day I feel so enormously blessed to have met him, to have learned from him, organized events for him, and eventually to have worked alongside him at International Intensive Trainings.

Meeting Marshall changed how I viewed the world and how I understood human relating and conflict.

My life changed significantly for the better when I met Marshall!

THINGS I LOVE:

Working with clients

My family and friends

Time with my grandchildren

Being outdoors; connecting to earth

Photography (especially nature)

Hands in the dirt gardening

Knitting (like both my grandmothers)

Cooking a fine meal

Poetry .. both reading and writing

History & cultural anthropology

Favourite film: Babette’s Feast (trailer)