Anisha Pandya, CEO and Provocateur
Anisha Pandya is a bold leader, psychotherapist, and transformational facilitator based in Mumbai, India. As the CEO of the Authentic Communication Group, she leads the organization, and is happiest when she’s facilitating. She drives powerful, cutting-edge interventions that blend therapeutic and coaching approaches like Transactional Analysis, Appreciative Inquiry, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Emotional Intelligence, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Process Work.
Anisha is relentless in challenging the status quo, particularly in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her workshops provoke deep reflection and action around power, privilege, and social justice, confronting uncomfortable truths to foster real, systemic change. Her process group work is at the heart of her practice, creating transformative spaces where individuals and groups can safely explore conflict, vulnerability, and personal growth—unlocking deeper layers of authenticity and connection.
As a visionary facilitator, she offers immersive group experiences that focus on leadership development, conflict resolution, and breaking through the barriers of difficult conversations. Her passion for Nonviolent Communication particularly within families and communities, drives her commitment to creating environments where open, authentic dialogue leads to lasting transformation.
Anisha Pandya is not just a guide; she’s a catalyst for personal and collective evolution, leading individuals and groups through profound change with fearlessness and compassion.
If you want to learn to facilitate groups, join Anisha Pandya as she pulls back the curtain to explain the concepts that inform her interventions. Her facilitation isn’t for the faint of heart—it’s for those brave enough to face hard truths and commit to real transformation.
Videos by Anisha Pandya
Discovering our primal wounds by Anisha Pandya
Social class and its impact on our behavior by Anisha Pandya
Social class is determined by the wealth, income, education and occupation of not just the individual but also the family in which he is born. While class is one of the many factors that contributes to the sense of power, rank and priviledge that an individual experiences in any given situation, It viciously impacts the individual’s perception of his own abilities, his sense of self and also his sense of self-worth.
Power Dynamics and Oppression by Anisha Pandya
Power differentials and hierarchy are an inevitable and inescapable part of the reality of groups. And yet, turning a blind eye to power dynamics not only results in perpetuating patterns of oppression and abuse but also results in us losing our capacity to think, to love and to experience any kind of joy. Our growth as a species is tightly linked to our capacity to transform and bring about social change.
Dealing with your shame by Anisha Pandya
Shame often brings along a sense of deep unworthiness and it robs us of the possibility of being in connection with others even when we most need it. In this video, we will be using a case study to explore ways in which we deal with shame. This video encourages us to take a pause, examine our relationship with shame and think about different ways we can navigate shame in ways that serves us.
Exploring our lenses of looking at the world by Anisha Pandya
Our behaviour is often influenced by the lens through which we look at the world. Eric Berne had said that this lens is often influenced by our basic life position – which refers to our existential stance and the sense of worthiness that we attribute to ourselves, others and the world. In this video, we will recognise how our lens impacts our behavior and what can we do in order to enhance our interpersonal effectiveness.
Emotional Labour – protecting your boundaries by Anisha Pandya
The term emotional labor was first coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in 1983 in her book ‘The Managed Heart’. Emotional labour refers to the unpaid, invisible work one is often set up to do in order to keep other people around them confortable and happy. While it is stereotypically seen as a woman’s role in patriarchal systems, it is not surprising to see how the have’ nots and people with less power, rank and privilege (such as employees, subordinates, people of color, homosexuals, transgenders) often end up finding themselves in situations where they are expected to gulp down and suppress their own hurt, anger and upset to manage the emotions of people in power.
Co- regulation – leaning into others by Anisha Pandya
Growing up and adulting often entails taking responsibility for managing our own feelings, thoughts and actions. And while there is validity to that expectation, life often throws a googly at us, triggers our younger parts and elicits our older wounds. We may find ourselves and others around us in situations when we may neither be able to keep grounded nor manage our reactions. Shame, sadness, anger, hurt often yearn to be met and soothed by others and yet our tendency is to reject our own and others reactivity. How different our world would be if we accounted for our own and others humanity and really supported each other in regulating our feelings and behavior. This video invites us to find the courage of leaning into others when we are vulnerable and also be that co-regulating other whom others could lean into when they are stressed.
Protectors and fire-fighters – when parts dominate our behavior by Anisha Pandya
Childhood often entails figuring out how to live in the world. Life happens to each one of us and in coping with the good, bad and ugly experiences of our life, we often develop different parts to our personality in order to deal with life. Each of these parts seems to be wanting to serve us in some ways and yet sometimes when these parts dominate our behavior, we lose our effectiveness. In this video, we will be looking at how when some parts of our personality dominate our behaviour, we seem to become ineffective especially when we are in the reactive mode. This video encourages us to take a pause, embrace our parts, listen to their intention and then choose our behaviors so that we can speak about our parts without becoming our parts
Perpetuating cycles of oppression by Anisha Pandya
When it comes to oppression, we often think about the role of offender and the victim in contributing to the existence of oppression. However, we seize to recognise that neither the offender nor the victim exists in a vacuum – we often forget the role that the onlookers and bystanders play in perpetuating cycles of oppression. In this video, we will be looking at ways in which the bystander colludes with the oppressor and we will also talk about ways in which we can prevent and stop oppression.
Strokes – the only way to meet our need for recognition and appreciation by Anisha Pandya
Being recognised and appreciated for who we are is one of the core psychological hungers and also a basic human need. Children seem to be born with this uncanny ability to give/recieve/ask for appreciation. However, adulting and socialization can sometimes rob us of our most natural capacity to give and recieve love. In this video, I shall be narrating a personal account of the pattern of giving and recieving appreciation in my family. I also Introduce Claude Steiner’s rules of being miserable and the video ends with reflective questions for us to ponder.