The Art of Relational Facilitation

NVC-based Facilitation Skills for Clarity, Care, and Collboration

This workshop introduces facilitation as a relational practice, one that requires both structure and responsiveness. Together, we will explore how you can bring more intention, ownership, and balance into the spaces you hold.

What We Will Explore Together (Training Coverage)

 

Over the course of 2 days, we explore:

  • Self-awareness - who you are , what your learning and reactive edges are, your strengths and gifts
  • Connecting with, developing, and understanding your own authentic facilitation style
  • Empathy-based skills such as tracking group energy, participation, and emerging dynamics
  • Balancing empathy with clear expression and direction with vulnerability and open hearted-ness
  • Structuring workshops or meetings to support meaningful learning, and pedagogy in group learning environments
  • Creating spaces that are both inclusive and outcome-oriented
  • Understanding and owning power dynamics in workshop and group settings, and creating co-empowered learning space

What You Will Leave With (Key Takeaways)

 

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

 

  • Bring greater self-awareness into your role as a facilitator
  • Track participation, engagement, and emerging group needs in real time
  • Use empathy to support connection without losing focus or direction
  • Balance responsiveness to individuals with responsibility to the group's purpose
  • Structure learning experiences that feel coherent and complete
  • Make conscious choices about when to guide, when to step back, and when to intervene
  • Engage with power dynamics in group spaces more intentionally
  • Facilitate dialogue in ways that create both safety and shared ownership
  • Support collaboration without suppressing differences in perspective

 


Schedule

May 9, 2026 (Sat)

9:15am Opens. 9:30am Starts
5:45pm Ends


May 10, 2026 (Sunday)

9:15am Opens. 9:30am Starts
4:30p Ends

Participation Fee

We set a sliding scale to support participants from wider socio-economic background can join. If you need any financial support, please reach out to the organizer below.

 

78,000 ~ 300,000 yen


* It does not include any room nor meal during the training period. 

Trainer

Manasi Saxena,
CNVC Certified Trainer

Manasi Saxena is a learning facilitator working at the intersection of personal growth and community development. She is a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH), and the Founder of enCOMPASSion, India.

The Profiles are HERE

Interpreter (Japanese)

Keiko Silberamann,
CNVC Certified Trainer

 

Embodied NVC for Life-Serving Change
Integrating the wisdom of the Aloha spirit, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and somatic practices, she offers a holistic approach that connects inner transformation, relationships, social systems, and our relationship with nature.

Her work supports people in reconnecting with their inherent power and living in ways that contribute to a more compassionate and life-serving world.

Profile is HERE

 


Location

Venue:
The conference room within
National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan

Address:
1-3-1, Yaei, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture
https://www.kokusen.go.jp/hello/map_sagamihara.html

Accomondation:
A limited number of single rooms are available at the venue
+ Various options available nearby

Registration

Please register using this FORM:

 

Contact

Please register by sending an email to Keiko:
[email protected]

 

The actual location of the venue is just between the Sagamihara Yaei HS and Sagamihara City Museum.

Organizer / Co-Organizer

ORGANIZER：
Learning and Practice Group of NVC Connected with the Society
In Japanese:
社会とつながるNVC 学びと実践の会

CO-ORGANIZER:
Tsunagari Tsunagaru Kenkyujo
In Japanese:
つながりつながる研究所


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