Say more with less words!

Join the in person ‘Visual Empathy Training’

Are you a professional trainer, facilitator or coach?

This training is designed to develop your visual empathy skills and empowers you to communicate visually and facilitate your meeting, conversation, presentation, coaching session and training program.

As a result, your audience remembers what you communicate and your impact increases!

Doesn’t the valuable message you share with your audience get across as fully as you’d like?

Your audience is overwhelmed with all the information they receive, must understand and remember. Perhaps even in foreign languages, which requires even more concentration and focus.

Research shows around 60% of people think and learn visually.
It’s also known that visuals increase understanding, integration, engagement and connection.
But do you also know how to express yourself visually or create your own training, coaching or facilitation materials?

If not as much as you’d like, then this training helps you gracefully translate what you see so clearly in your head onto your flipcharts, presentations, visualizations and other communication media.

You are disappointed about the relevance or lack of visuals, flipcharts and visualizations of models and processes in your work because you feel …

  • overwhelmed with thoughts about how to approach creating these?
  • concerned your audience loses interest before you get to the point?
  • worried that with all the distractions people listen but don’t actually follow and understand what you mean?
  • hesitant which visuals to chose for your audience and topics?
  • uncomfortable with the look of your visuals and designs?
  • unsatisfied with your choice of images?
  • hesitant to integrate drawings and visuals in your work in general?
  • fearful your drawing and visual communication skills aren’t professional? 
  • doubtful your drawing skills and visual communication skills will improve?

More and more people become aware how powerful the visual aspect of communication is and how much they struggle to implement it in their work.

I noticed this growing group of people has one or two underdeveloped core skills,
and more so, they don’t know how to combine the two:

VISUAL LITERACY & EMPATHY

At some point something clicked in my brain…
25 years of professional experience with these two skills lead me to invent the term:

‘VISUAL EMPATHY’

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

Visual empathy helps you keep the attention of your audience much longer and so your impact increases.

Another great benefit is that you start to create more visually engaging, relevant and attractive content faster than you did before.

To handle information overload and auditory overwhelm, your audience longs for engagement, interesting content, fun and lightness. With visual empathy skills, you can easily help them meet these needs through incorporating visual communication and visual facilitation in your work.

I have over twenty five years of experience as an art director/graphic designer/illustrator/graphic recorder and more than twelve years in the field of Empathic / Nonviolent Communication. Currently I combine these two fields, both as a visual empathy trainer/coach and an empathy based conflict coach/mediator.

I am here to help you develop the visual communication and visual facilitation skills you need to capture the attention of your audience. Let me help you …

WHAT DO YOU LEARN IN THIS TRAINING?

How to reclaim and develop your visual voice, and use your ability to express yourself visually.

Become visually literate by learning a simple visual language to express what your head and heart want to say

Start creating a visual library with relevant visuals, visual metaphors, flipcharts, models, processes, […] for your topics & audience(s)

A formula to get your message out of your head and structure it in a layout congruent to your spoken words

How to visually translate your verbal message into a visual representation that makes sense to your audience.

How to visually make sense for your audience to support their understanding, learning & growth

How to bring more play, humor and lightness into the (virtual) room

How to make your training and workshops more interactive

How to stay on track and deliver what people signed up for.

Increase the satisfaction of your audience

The flipchart Gabriëlle made during the training.

Gabriëlle Leguijt

Nonviolent Communication Practitioner & High Care Pediatric Nurse, Intensive Care Children, UMC Amsterdam

“What helped me the most by attending Mireille’s training is how you can get visual insight into your target group you want to work with and how to overcome the obstacles in my mind to start drawing. I now enjoy my newly developed skills very much. Other than that, this training is designed very well. Mireille could not have put more into these two days. I don’t know what could be improved. In any case, I am still grateful to Mireille every day.”

Right after the in presence training, Gabriëlle created a flipchart series for her the Empathic Communication training she offered at work.

Jean

Facilitator, Lyon, France

WORK OF FORMER PARTICIPANTS

Visual Empathy Training

Are you a professional trainer, facilitator or coach?

This training is designed to develop your visual empathy skills and empowers you to communicate visually and facilitate your conversations, presentations, meetings, coaching sessions, facilitation process and training programs.

As a result, your audience remembers what you communicate and your impact increases!

WHERE TO JOIN THIS IN PERSON TRAINING?

IN DUTCH

The Netherlands

Oud-Beijerland

19 & 20
October 2023

  • 2 days of training (09:30-17:00)
  • Instant access to the online program ‘Mind the Gap’ and ‘8 Facets of Clear Flipchart Presentations’
  • Practical approach to actively learning and creating
  • Exercises to develop visual empathy, visual facilitation & presentation skills
  • Feedback on the work you create
  • Practial tips & tricks
  • Workbook
  • Notebook for your visual library
  • Your own professional marker set to bring home
  • 2x Lunch
  • Snacks & Drinks

€647

At the check-out, you may also choose an amount between €547,- and €797, to align your purchasing power. 

VAT 0% for company registrations /
VAT exemption for private registrations

TRAINING LOCATION
Jan van der Heijdenstraat 13,
3261 LE Oud-Beijerland

IN ENGLISH (& SLOVENE)

Slovenia

Novo mesto

9 & 10
November 2023

  • 2 days of training (09:00-16:30)
  • Instant access to the online program ‘Mind the Gap’ and ‘8 Facets of Clear Flipchart Presentations’
  • Practical approach to actively learning and creating 
  • Exercises to develop visual empathy, visual facilitation & presentation skills
  • Feedback on the work you create
  • Practial tips & tricks
  • Workbook
  • Notebook for your visual library
  • Your own professional marker set to bring home
  • 2x Lunch
  • Snacks & Drinks

€547

At the check-out, you may also choose an amount between €417,- and €667, to align your purchasing power. 

VAT 0% for company registrations /
VAT exemption for private registrations

TRAINING LOCATION
To be announced.

IN ENGLISH & FRENCH

France

Lyon

27-29
November 2023

  • Translation English < > French
  • 3 days of training (09:30-17:00)
  • Practical approach to actively learning and creating
  • Exercises to develop your skills
  • Feedback on the work you create
  • Practial tips & tricks
  • Workbook
  • Notebook for your visual library
  • Your own professional marker set to bring home
  • Coffee & Tea

Tuition fees & sign up with the organizer  available at
Concertience /
Francoise Keller

TRAINING LOCATION
Concertience
26, rue du Sergent Michel Berthet
69009 Lyon

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’.

◉ To experience more autonomy and flexibility in my work and private life, I switched from working as a design department leader to working more location independent as a visual mediator, visual empathy trainer & coach, and graphic recorder.

◉ Since 2015 I create, design, build and facilitate courses in my online academy and offer in presence training in various countries. All my courses, webinars, training video’s and workshops are visually supported with a combination of flipcharts, visual tools and digital presentations. This is simply how I communicate … I often hear that is so helpful, clarifying and fun. Would you like to experience that too?

Barbara Fortuna

Trainer & Coach, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cara Crisler

Crisler Coaching & Consulting, NVC Practitioner, Haarlem, the Netherlands

”Mireille’s contributions to me started when I first contacted her and she took the time to listen to my needs. She helped me feel completely welcome to follow her Visual Facilitation training (bypassing the belief that I didn’t have enough skills). In just 5 online sessions, she taught me how I can enhance my work as a trainer by sharing information, demonstrating her work, and giving highly interactive feedback. Recently, one of my workshop participants (who knew me from a previous course) said, “Your new visuals bring the information across with much more clarity,” which helps me know Mireille’s training was a very effective investment.”

Nina Gorjup

Director of Corporate Communicate in TPV Group, Novo mesto, Slovenia

Mireille is not only a great expert in visual communication, but is also excellent in transferring her knowledge to the participants of her workshops.

The special value of her workshop Clear & Impactful Flipchart Presentations is is that one gets a lot of useful tips as well as learns the basic principles of visual communication that are helpful not only in preparing flipcharts but also other elements such as powerpoint presentations, advertisements, posters, etc. It is amazing to see how, by following her tips, a flipchart comes to life in a completely different way.

Frequently Asked Questions

I have no visual skills or talents, does it make sense to sign up?
I am certain that everyone can develop skills to be visually empathic. I hope after this program you feel visually empowered to express your visual voice more often, because it matters to me that you and everyone else in this world feels seen and understood.
Is participating in this course helpful if I already create flicpharts?

That totally depends on your skills level and which skills you like to develop further. I suggest to schedule a free call with me to present some work and discuss to find out if this program is an effective strategy for meeting your current learning needs in regards to designing your training presentation material. No strings attached.
Email me at clarity@mireillevanbremen.com

Why learn about flipcharts when so many people work, teach and study online and use slides?

This program speaks to the 8 facets of your training which help you visually attune your communication and facilitation to your audience. That’s something you can make use of regardless of the medium you choose to support your audience in their learning experience.

Oh, and in my view, flipcharts and other visual tools can also be used online and in training video’s! In fact, I believe we especially need visual tools online due to the decreased visual clues we can pick up on in our communication and to make the learning experience more engaging.

Antoinette Wibbelink

Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer & coach, The Netherlands

“I highly recommend Mireille for her teaching and coaching skills in visual facilitation. In the live training she helped me realize that there is something like: a visual language! And I discovered, that I wasn’t aware of it, allthough I used some illustrations in my trainings. In a one-on-one coaching session afterwards, she helped me see and understand more of it by giving me helpfull feedback to the visuals, (flyers and flipcharts) that I had made after the training. I experience her as not only very good in visuals, but also very empathic and clear in her communication.”

Klavdija Novak

Trainer & Coach, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Octavian Istrate

Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer, Romania

It’s been nine months since I have took the “Design Your Own Flipchart Series” Online Course, and now I can see fully its long-term benefits.

This course created a very big shift in my abilities and trust to express my ideas through drawing flipcharts that would support both me and the participants. I went from writing horribly on a flipchart to having the ability to create something clear, simple, structured and at the same time authentic. And I get lots of positive feedback from my participants.

I want to emphasize that I don’t know to draw at all, and this is not a requirement in order to create a clear and helpful flipchart. [This being said, I would like to improve my drawing abilities]

The structure of the course and the information helped me in staying engaged and learning continuously. Not too much info, not too little, and very many practical exercises.

I particularly enjoyed Mireille as a trainer, especially the personalised feedback and attention that we all got from her. I had the perception that she is really interested in supporting us in custom ways, depending on what we want to accomplish and what we want to learn.

I higly recommend her to anyone who wants to use flipcharts or any other visual support as a way of improving their trainings!

Say more with less words!

Join the in person ‘Visual Empathy Training’

Ideal for developing you visual communication and visual facilitation skills and create your own visual tools for your meetings, coaching sessions, workshops and training programs.

The Visual Mediator

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

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