"Visual empathy brings all stakeholders on the same page, like a mediator helps two parties understand each other's point of view."

Mireille van Bremen

Visual Mediator & Conflict Coach, Graphic Recorder

Visual Empathy Trainer & Coach

Book me to visualize your strategic direction or joint vision

“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.”

Valuing Empathy

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. 

Visual Voice, Expression & Inclusion

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.

Visual Empathy

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.

My shortest definition of visual empathy is
“a visually attuned expression or response, expressed with the intention to deepen our understanding and create connection.”

Do you feel intrigued reading this, because harmony matters to you too, and you like to be effective in helping your audience develop their empathy skills?

Click on the button to start exploring the first steps in visually attuning your facilitation and communication to the audience in your training program.

 What you would know, if you’d really know me …

Because I am empathic and lead from my intuition, I am often aware of unspoken intentions and power dynamics.
This makes it easy for me to put my finger on the sore spot and make the invisible, visible.

Sometimes it is confronting for people that the clarity I provide, reveals something about their own impact and responsibility in a situation.

Hi, I am Mireille van Bremen!​

◉ I am a Dutch national with Asian roots and live in Slovenia since 2006. I am a mom and co-parent of a teenage son who lives with me every other week. 

◉ Besides many creative activities, I love improvised plant-based cooking with home grown veggies. I enjoy mountain biking, hiking, spending time with friends, doing daily self-connection practices or simply spend time in silent solitude.

◉ Some fun facts 😊 I have a strong need for visual harmony and am a color freak. I paint as a meditation practice. Depending on the culture or religion, my name Mireille means ‘to admire’, ‘peace’ and ‘miracle’.

◉ I am a Dutch national with Asian roots and live in Slovenia since 2006. I am a mom and co-parent of a teenage son who lives with me every other week. 

◉ Besides many creative activities, I love improvised plant-based cooking with home grown veggies. I enjoy mountain biking, hiking, spending time with friends, doing daily self-connection practices or simply spend time in silent solitude.

◉ Some fun facts 😊 I have a strong need for visual harmony and am a color freak. I paint as a meditation practice. Depending on the culture or religion, my name Mireille means ‘to admire’, ‘peace’ and ‘miracle’.

Mireille van Bremen

Visual Conflict Coach & Mediator ◉ Visual Empathy Trainer & Coach ◉ Graphic Recorder

EDUCATION

  • Bachelor in Arts (Illustration) of the Willem de Kooning Academy of Art, Rotterdam, NL
  • Bachelor in Visual Communication (Graphic Design) of the Willem de Kooning Academy of Art, Rotterdam, NL
  • Training in (online) marketing & course design
  • Over 150 days of training in Nonviolent Communication, conflict coaching & mediation
  • 3 years BayNVC Leadership Year Program (participant & assistant)
  • Training in Empathic Coaching
  • Training in Participatory Leadership
  • Training in the Art of Hosting
  • Training in Awakening Coaching Basics
  • Theta Healing Basic DNA Practitioner
  • Genos Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

SKILLS

  • Facilitate trainings, conversations, meetings, workshops, …
  • Empathic listening
  • Capture the essence of a story, conflict, idea or plan with striking clarity
  • Visualise the bigger picture of ideas, concepts, models, processes, visions, plans, etc.
  • Generate new value & tons of ideas
  • Reduce complexity to what truly matters
  • Make the invisible visible & tangible
  • Graphic Recording, Visual Translation
  • Art direction, Graphic design, Illustration
  • Conflict Coaching & Mediation
  • (Online) Marketing & Business
  • Leadership

EXPERIENCE

  • 8 years owner of The Visual Mediator – training, coaching and visual communication services – based in Slovenia
  • 9 years Head of Design & Art Director in an internationally operating advertising agency in Slovenia
  • 5 years owner of Studio LiEF – graphic design & illustration studio based in The Netherlands
  • Trained hundreds of trainers, coaches, facilitators, leaders, designers, project managers, lecturers and teachers in developing their visual empathy skills
  • Supported many entrepreneurs in being more impactful with their marketing & communications
  • Created countless graphic recordings, visual summaries and other visual representations & illustrations

EXPERTISE

  • Visual communication

  • Empathy

  • Graphic recording

  • Training

  • Coaching
  • Facilitation

  • Nonviolent Communication

  • NVC based Mediation & Conflict Coaching

LOCATION

  • Internationally
  • Live
  • Online

LANGUAGES

  • Dutch (native)
  • English (professional)
  • Slovene (professional)
  • German (basic)
  • Any other with simultaneous translation

Organizations already working with me

The Visual Mediator

Mireille Annette van Bremen s.p.
Žlebej 1a
8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia
VAT ID: SI10975748

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