Mireille van Bremen

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

Hi, my name is Mireille van Bremen and I work internationally as a Graphic Recorder, Visual Mediator and Visual Empathy Trainer.

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

My years of experience in the field of visual communication as an art-director and design department leader stimulated me to learn and integrate empathy in my work. For the past ten years I have been intensively trained in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and NVC based mediation and conflict coaching.

While I continued working as an illustrator, graphic designer, graphic recorder and visual facilitator, I developed my own methods and courses to bring these two fields together in my Visual Empathy Courses.

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’.

Visual Empathy helps us understand the audience we communicate with and visual expression increases the efficacy of training and development activities. This increases both the relevance as the impact of learning experiences.