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Open Visual Empathy Courses for professionals to develop visual empathy, communication, presentation & facilitation skills.

My name is MIREILLE VAN BREMEN

I help organizations promote human rights, wellbeing and peace by visualizing their strategies and vision of the future.

I work at conferences, seminars, workshops, in mediation sessions and in training settings in the roles of Graphic Recorder, Visual Mediator & Conflict Coach, and Visual Empathy Trainer.

“Our visual voice matters because the visual empathy we express with it, leads to shared understanding and helps us attune to the audience we communicate with.”

I believe we experience more harmony in our communication and have more synergy in collaborations when we get on the same page with ease. Empathic communication is incredibly powerful in creating connection and emotional wellbeing. It helps us establish and maintain trust in our relationships and learning experiences. 

The element that is frequently missing in our communication, is the expression of our visual voice. Most people who could have taught us in the past, how to express ourselves visually, didn’t have the skills themselves. The systemic construct of many parts of our society uses communication and educational approaches which generally don’t stimulate empathy and visual expression in our communication, and/or are hardly visually inclusive in our working and learning environments.

My years of experience in the field of visual communication as a design department leader stimulated me to learn and integrate empathy in my work. Since 2012 I have been intensively trained in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and NVC based mediation and conflict coaching. In my Visual Empathy Courses I bring these two fields together because I experience how much empathy helps us understand and visually attune to the audience we communicate with. Because visual expression also increases the efficacy of training and development activities, both the relevance as the impact of learning experiences and collaboration increase.

To articulate the essential skill participants develop through my courses, I came up with the term ‘Visual Empathy’. I define it as ‘the visually attuned expression of our understanding, expressed with the intention to create connection with ourselves and others’.

In my work as a Visual Mediator, visual empathy is the main skill I use to create visualizations that show various perspectives and/or represent a shared reality or common vision.

The Visual Mediator helps organizations promote human rights, wellbeing and peace by visualizing their strategies and vision of the future.