Empathy-Navigator

Download the giraffe to your mobile! The Nonviolent Communication App keeps you company in your day-to-day life, helps you cope with conflicts and supports Nonviolent Communication (NVC) exercises like Celebration of Life, Empathy Journal, the Four Steps of NVC, etc.

→ Empathy Journal
→ Feeling Navigator (database)
→ Need Navigator (database)
→ Body Scan (database)
→ Report feature for all database applications
→ Celebration of Life
→ Business Zone
→ Empathy Reminder

In cooperation with Al Weckert, book author and organisation developer, the Junfermann-Verlag presents the NVC App. The “Empathy Navigator” helps you improve your skills and awareness when it comes to speaking and listening with empathy.
At the heart of the app is the database with its intuitive user interface. It provides you with terms for feelings and needs, as well as the “Empathy Journal”, which you can analyze using a variety of reports. Various “Business” features assist you in getting prepared for difficult discussions. The “Empathy Reminder” is provided to help you cope with conflicts.

» The Empathy Journal
The “Empathy Journal” records everyday situations in which you reflect your well-being and behavior. What has happened, today or just now? How does that feel? Which needs have been fulfilled, which remain unfulfilled? In this context, do I want to make a request to myself or another person?

» Database Features: Feeling Navigator and Need Navigator
Both database features “Feeling Navigator” and “Need Navigator” allow an associative search for appropriate terms. Just drag-and-drop a search term to the center of your phone’s display and let yourself be inspired by the terms the database associates with your search term. You can save the feelings or needs that match your situation along with the current date and location, and you can link them to additional terms. Using an open text field, you can enter a description of the original situation to which you assign these terms. A text entry form allows you to draft appropriate requests and assign them a time to be executed.

» Body Scan
With the guidance provided by a special menu, you can even “scan” bodily feelings and record them in the Journal.

» Reports
In a separate application area, all Journal entries are consolidated in reports. The report area allows analyzing the most frequent feelings and needs by time and location, separately or in groups.

» Celebration of Life
With the guidance provided by a special menu, the feature “Celebration of Life” invites you to remember special moments of the day that you might want to celebrate.

» Business Zone
The app’s “Business Zone” provides menus of questions that assist you in preparing yourself for discussions and meetings, and in debriefing after the event. The questionnaire results cannot be saved to the database, but the check lists can help you to reach more clarity about your concern and to express yourself forcefully.

» Empathy Reminder
The “Empathy Reminder” brings a lot of fun to the app, and it also provides two useful extra features. If you tend to blow your top frequently, but you’d prefer to react in a calm way, just activate the “Relaxation Mode”. The display goes dark, and slowly the African sun rises above the horizon and giraffes wander across the savanna. In “Reminder Mode”, in short intervals the app displays a discrete message to remind you to communicate with empathy—very important for meetings!