Compassionate Communication Training by Tilman Rieger

Compassionate Communication (also known as Non Violent Communication (NVC) is a four step approach helping people to better connect with each other, especially when experiencing conflict. It was developed by the US American Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg and has been spread across the world since the 1980’s. Marshall Rosenberg’s book Non-Violent Communication is also available in Chinese (非暴力沟通).

People applying this approach meet their needs much more effectively while avoiding or resolving conflicts e.g. with colleagues or direct reports at work, in relationships with partners or friends or between parents and children.

Compassionate Communication can also support you to better connect with your clients or avoid harm by people you don’t know and that even threaten you. It helps to build up a non-judgmental attitude of mutual respect that we theoretically all know is important but often fail to realize in practice.

After 15 years of corporate career in the automotive industry Tilman quit his job as HR Director of General Motors Europe in order to pursue his passion of developing people. After 600 hours of class room training in Coaching, Mediation and Non Violent Communication (NVC) he moved to China to start his new career. Based in China since 2014 he is now consulting, coaching and training Western as well as Asian leaders of multinational corporations. Compassionate Communication (also known as NVC) has since then been Tilman’s focus in Coachings as well as in trainings to enhance the communication skills of his clients.