enCOMPASSion began in November 2016 with a simple intention — to bring the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and related practices to life, offering spaces for individuals, communities, and organisations to grow in empathy, resilience, and collaboration.
In our early years, we offered trainings, workshops, and learning spaces for personal growth through NVC — working with schools, grassroots groups, and organisations like UNHCR, Katkatha, Manzil, Saajha, Fr. Agnel School Greater Noida, and many others.
We travelled from Guwahati to Udaipur, from New Delhi to Bangalore, holding space for people to deepen self-awareness, build relationships, and explore how inner change ripples outward.
Through open workshops, mentoring, and assessment events, we stayed rooted in the belief that personal transformation fuels interpersonal and community transformation.
When the pandemic struck, we, like many others, were called to stretch beyond our familiar ways of working. Compassion needed to meet the stark realities of survival.
We collaborated with the Deputy CM Office for Relief in Northeast Delhi, Goonj, and Fidus Law Chambers to offer emergency support through Noida Covid Relief 2020, reaching over 27,300 individuals with food and dry ration kits, and supporting over 3,500 migrant workers with essential travel kits.
Later that winter, we worked with Goonj again to provide warm blankets to over 6,300 vulnerable individuals across Delhi/NCR.
These experiences deepened our questions:
How does compassion meet life-alienating systems?
How do we practice nonviolence when survival itself is at stake?
How do we make compassion sustainable?
These questions led us to Project Asha, a community-driven initiative in Noida focused on enhancing resilience through Nonviolent Communication and collaborative development. We worked alongside a slum-based community for eight months, bringing together shared decision-making tools to support their goals.
When the second wave of Covid-19 hit India, our team — like so many others — was directly impacted. We shifted focus once again, offering Project Empathy, 25 weeks of listening spaces for those navigating grief, fear, and uncertainty.
During this time, we also launched Living Bridges, an enCOMPASSion project building the connection between Nonviolent Communication and social change.
Between 2020 and 2023, Living Bridges brought together trainers and learners from 44 countries — individuals from diverse sectors united by a shared longing to live empathy, compassion, and collaboration as tools for social transformation.
In partnership with Connext Coaching, this project promoted inclusion, bridge differences, and foster sustainable, community-driven change.
Our guiding invitation: Start where you are. Do what you can.
enCOMPASSion had transformed — becoming a registered Section 8 company, participating in Pravah’s Changeloom programme, and deepening our identity as a social business.
Our work now weaves together the understanding that compassion requires more than good intentions — it demands lived practice, courage, and systemic change.
We remain rooted in the simple but powerful belief that when people are equipped with the tools of empathy, collaboration, and nonviolence, lasting change becomes possible.