After having performed over 20 years as a recording vocalist, Shigeko now finds passion in listening to the resonance of life in each one of us and creating a world where all of our voices matter.
Since 2006, with her partner, Ken Anno , and other friends, she has been practicing and introducing NVC in Japan as one of the pioneers. Together they contributed to an emergence of quite a unique community, where people were so excited that they motivated themselves to learn and share and created a network with each other, without having a big structured association.
She organized and translated IITs in Japan in 2014 and 2017 . She and Ken translated Marshall Rosenberg‘s “ Speak Peace in a World of Conflict ” and published it in 2021. She also has a deep interest in trauma healing, especially the trauma that has been carried through generations that is deeply related with social change.
As her life work as a singer, she loves to explore together a deep self connection through body and voice, which is the instrument of Life. Also with Ken, she walks that path of exploring partnership, longing to create a relationship where both of their soul resonates and dances with joy.
Shigeko was a trainer at the International Intensive Training in Germany in 2023 for the first time as trainers in a language that is not her mother tongue. She has passion to explore how she can find her own power so that she can contribute by empowering others in a community that has a diversity.