Connecting communication — even when it’s challenging

Learn to communicate clearly and respectfully without losing yourself or the other person.

"One of Satya Nadella’s first acts after becoming CEO of Microsoft was to ask the company’s top executives to read Marshall Rosenberg’s "Nonviolent Communication", a treatise on empathic collaboration."

- FastCompany.com

Why this matters

Speaking up clearly while respecting others — stating your point without overstepping — is easier said than done.

Yet connecting communication at work is crucial to:

Resolve conflicts faster
Reduce stress
Strengthen collaboration and relationships

Connection is the building block of every collaboration. When it’s missing, efficiency, effectiveness, and workplace satisfaction all decline.

Why communication so often fails

Speaking up clearly while respecting others — stating your point without overstepping — is easier said than done.

Yet connecting communication at work is crucial to:

Resolve conflicts faster
Reduce stress
Strengthen collaboration and relationships

Connection is the building block of every collaboration. When it’s missing, efficiency, effectiveness, and workplace satisfaction all decline.

Our approach

This training is based on Connecting Communication, developed by American psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg.

Its radical simplicity comes from focusing on empathy, responsibility, and choice — even in professional contexts.

The focus is not about being nice, but about:

Clarity
Mutual understanding
Collaboration, even under tension

What this enables

Communicate clearly without escalation

Address and resolve conflicts constructively

Reduce stress, increase resilience

Strengthen collaboration and equality in teams

Programme

Block 1: Perception

The triune brain: from abstract thinking to survival response (and back).
How do stimuli enter and where does your ownership lie?

Block 2: Feelings & Needs

The basics of empathy and its importance in moving towards pure communication.
Vulnerability in the work environment? Is that even possible?

Block 3: Requests

With mutually conflicting interests, how do you still achieve fruitful cooperation?
Demands or Requests...and what about efficiency in the working environment?

Block 4: Quasi-feelings and Quasi-needs

How to get past the idea that you are dependent on the other person to fulfil your goals.
Beyond should and may and towards want!

Format

in-company training
2 days
strongly experiential, with ample practice opportunities

Reviews

"I thoroughly enjoyed Peter and the Introduction to Connecting Communication training. His drive, energy, creativity and the empathy with which he conveys the information clearly and distinctly have fully recharged my batteries."

Liesbeth F

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