Our Mission
To empower people to connect beyond conflict, listen beyond judgment, and speak with compassion and purpose
Our Vision
We envision a more sustainable, compassionate, and life-serving culture of communication in Singapore and beyond
Our Story
Miki Amrita founded NVC Singapore in 2015, however NVC work has been continuing to grow in over 65 countries since the 1960s
Miki Amrita
Miki Amrita, a highly accomplished Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), is the visionary Founder and CEO of NVC.SG. A Japanese author, speaker, and mentor, Miki was honoured as one of the Top 10 Best Leaders in Professional Training and Coaching Companies from Singapore (2023) by CEO Insights Asia.
With a decade of experience in Nonviolent Communication, Miki is internationally recognised for her ability to guide transformative change in individuals, teams, and organisations. What sets her apart is her extraordinary presence. She has an ability to listen with the kind of warmth and compassion that creates an immediate sense of safety and trust, even in the most challenging conversations.
Whether facilitating corporate leadership trainings, holding space for personal conflict transformation, or mentoring new NVC practitioners, Miki brings leadership, cultural depth, and a gentle yet powerful style of communication that truly embodies the heart of NVC.
Meet the team
We are a small and dedicated team of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practitioners, coaches, and trainers working closely with Miki. Across Singapore, Japan, the US & UK, we accompany individuals, communities, and organisations in the practise of living and leading with empathy.
Whether we’re holding space for a parent in pain, coaching a team through tension, or guiding a roomful of changemakers, we come not to fix, but to connect. With presence, with humility, and with the unwavering belief that all needs matter.
Together, we offer training, facilitation, mentoring, and community support to nurture a culture where everyone’s humanity has a place to breathe.
Each of us brings a shared commitment: to embody compassion, foster dignity in dialogue, and support the deep transformation NVC makes possible not just as a skill set, but as a way of being.
What is NVC?
At its core
NVC offers a four-part framework
Observations: Naming what we see or hear without evaluation
Feelings: Connecting with and expressing our emotional responses
Needs: Identifying the underlying values and desires that fuel those feelings
Requests: Making clear, doable invitations that aim to enrich life
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a transformative method of interpersonal dialogue designed to foster empathy, clarity, and compassionate connection. Whether you’re navigating a tense conversation at work in the CBD, managing family tensions in a HDB flat, or seeking personal growth in Bukit Timah, NVC offers practical tools to authentically connect with others and with yourself.
Developed by American psychologist Dr Marshall B. Rosenberg in the 1960s, NVC guides people to express their truth honestly while listening with empathy, even in the heat of conflict. To listen in a way that honours universal human needs.
This practice has been used worldwide. From peace negotiations in war-torn regions, to family therapy and corporate leadership development. Here in Singapore, emotional restraint and harmony are truly valued and so NVC resonates deeply. It provides a structured yet heartfelt language that supports honest expression without conflict and empathetic listening without self-sacrifice.
Dr Rosenberg’s early work was influenced by his studies with Carl Rogers and his desire to develop a “language of life”. A language that liberates rather than dominates. His vision has since evolved into a global movement, supported by the Center for Nonviolent Communication and local trainers across continents.
Marshall Rosenberg
Dr. Marshall Rosenberg the founder of Nonviolent Communication created a powerful communication method that helps individuals and organisations navigate difficult conversations and resolve conflicts with empathy and clarity.
“It may help you to know that Nonviolent Communication grew from my attempt to understand the concept of love and how to manifest it. I had come to the conclusion that love is not just something we feel, but something we manifest, something we give.
It’s a gift when you reveal yourself vulnerably and honestly, at any given moment, for no other purpose than to reveal what’s alive in you. To me, that giving is a manifestation of love.
It’s a gift when we try to hear what is alive in the other person and what that person would like.
So, Nonviolent Communication is just a manifestation of what I understand love to be.
Nonviolent Communication helps me stay connected with that beautiful Divine Energy within myself and to connect with it in others. It’s the closest thing to ‘love’ I’ve ever experienced.” - Marshall Rosenberg
Why the word “Nonviolent”
In Nonviolent Communication it is intentionally provocative and profound. It challenges our habitual ways of thinking about violence. Not just as physical aggression, but as any form of communication that diminishes connection, respect, or dignity.
Dr Marshall Rosenberg chose this term to highlight a critical insight: violence begins in language. Whenever we judge, blame, shame, criticise, demand, or deny responsibility, we plant the seeds of disconnection. Even the seemingly small phrases like “What’s wrong with you?”, “You should know better”, “It’s your fault”, can carry the energy of domination, coercion, or dismissal. This too, is a form of violence.
By naming the practice Nonviolent Communication, Marshall anchored it in the lineage of Gandhi’s ahimsa (the principle of non-harm in thought, word, and deed.) NVC is not merely a style of talking; it is a conscious commitment to relating without judgement, without guilt, and without fear. NVC invites us to speak in ways that honour our own needs while holding care for the needs of others.
In our Singaporean context, where social harmony is prized, but emotional honesty can sometimes feel risky or awkward, NVC opens the door to expressing ourselves with both courage and compassion. It reminds us: violence doesn’t have to be loud or physical. It can be subtle, quiet, wrapped in politeness, and still leave wounds.
By reclaiming the word nonviolence, NVC invites us to radically re-imagine communication as an act of care, an offering of presence, clarity, and connection in a world often starved of all three.
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