We are excited to share with you an NVC Learning Journey in Japan this May, 2025. This is an invitation to slow down, to reconnect with what matters, and to cultivate the courage to live with empathy, authenticity, and belonging.
Three offerings, separate in nature but rooted in the same consciousness, together becoming a modular and intentional pathway for anyone who wants to deepen their NVC skills and consciousness.
Preparation for this journey begins with an Online NVC Foundations Workshop on April 18-19, 2026.
To register for any of the workshops, the online Foundations Training or in person workshops, please fill out this interest form or contact Keiko directly at nvc.socialbridge@gmail.com.
Workshops in Japan
In a changing world, how do we stay rooted in who we are?
How do we listen deeply to ours inner realities and also to one another?
How do we honour the complexity of the times we live in, celebrating our difference,
and yet coming together in onenness?
We invite you to join us… to slow down, to reconnect with what matters,
and to cultivate the courage to live with empathy, authenticity, and belonging.
Living NVC in a Changing World: Empathy, Authenticity, and Belonging: May 2-5, 2026 | Near Tokyo | Details
NVC for navigating the rich complexity of being human beings in diverse, rich communities, across power differentials, and with a deeper relational awareness.
The Art of Relational Facilitation: NVC-Based Facilitation Skills for Clarity, Care, and Collaboration: May 9-10, 2026 | Near Tokyo | Details
How to hold and create safe, brave learning spaces, where both relationship as well as purpose can be honoured. Building NVC consciousness and skills to anchor our capacity for holding spaces where learning can emerge collaboratively.
Ishigaki Women’s NVC Retreat: Coming Home to Inner Liberation and Leadershi: May 12-16, 2026 | Ishigaki, Okinawa | Details
A safe space where those who identify as women may connect with their inner gifts, explore what gets in the way of owning those gifts and living wholeheartedly, and create intentional patheways to lead from our deepest inner alignment.
The Trainers
Keiko Silbermann is a CNVC Certified Trainer based on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. Her work weaves together Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the wisdom of the Aloha spirit, and somatic awareness to support transformation at personal, relational, and systemic levels. Deeply influenced by the teachings of Hawaiian kumu (traditional teachers) and her studies in somatics at the Esalen Institute, Keiko explores NVC not only as a communication practice but as a way of living that connects spirituality, embodiment, and social change.
Her offerings include NVC trainings (beginner to advanced), NVC for ALL programs that include awareness of social systems, Vision Mobilization work, and practice groups based on the Nonviolence Core Commitments.
Keiko also contributes to expanding access to NVC in Japan by organizing international workshops and supporting translation projects, including the Japanese translation team for the book Choice.
Living in Puna on the Big Island, where she experienced volcanic eruptions and the powerful cycles of destruction and regeneration, has deepened her understanding that personal transformation and social transformation are inseparable. She is inspired by a vision of a world where each person reconnects with their purpose and power, and where all life is honored through deep interdependence.
Manasi Saxena is a Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and founder of enCOMPASSion Learning Solutions, supporting leaders and communities around the world to cultivate relational intelligence, value-driven leadership, and compassionate systems transformation.
Manasi works at the intersection of personal transformation, leadership, and community development, with a vision of fostering sustainability, collaboration, and resilience through value-driven leadership, deep self-integration, and Nonviolent Communication. She offers her expertise across multiple spheres, including group facilitation, project management, conflict transformation, mediation, leadership development, systems change, and DEI capacity-building for individuals, groups, and organisations.
With hands-on experience navigating the complexity of systems design and transformation, DEI in practice, NVC in the workplace, governance, organisational development, and collaborative leadership, Manasi brings an integrated perspective to her work at enCOMPASSion Learning Solutions. Through her programmes, she focuses on cultivating capacities for compassion, resilience, and interdependence through community development and learning spaces rooted in Nonviolent Communication.