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about me
I'm Emilio and I offer inner dialogue support, conflict mediation, and training. My practice is based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Theory of Mind, and aims to transform conflicts, to provide education, and to foster connection even in disagreement.
I have spent the last decades trying to understand intimate core values, value-forming processes, and social values. In that process, I have always expressed my interest from a multidisciplinary point of view and, as a result, I created art, texts, films, and presented exhibitions at international art venues. Since 2018, I have focused my attention on the research of emotions and created EMOTIONAL, an international symposium that gathered neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, essayists, artists, and Nonviolent Communication practitioners.
I see emotions as sensations that point to something really important to me, like my core values, or needs. Whether positive or negative, emotions are just letting me know that I care about something that is, indeed, very valuable to me. Welcoming emotions as pointers, rather than obstacles, is a first step toward growth.
I started my NVC education about a decade ago. Today I have completed more than 1000 hours of training, as well as assisting other NVC trainers. From my point of view, NVC embodies and puts into practice what the latest neuroscience confirms to be the most reliable way of understanding the psychology of emotions.
My main sources of knowledge and inspiration in this journey have been Lisa Feldman Barrett Ph.D., Marshall Rosenberg Ph.D., Yoram Mosenzon, Bonno Lange, Miki Kashtan, Daisy Delgado, Cara Crisler, Nadine Helm, and dozens of peers and colleagues who shared empathy and vulnerability with me. They all contributed to bringing together my own research of the narrative of the self, with the science of emotions and the practice of NVC.
As a Spanish who has lived in several countries, and whose family is multicultural, I have a close attention for the emotional experiences of expats, minorities, and multicultural relationships. As an expression of this interest, I co-created the curriculum and taught at the Cultural Diversity department of the Willem de Kooning Arts University, in Rotterdam and taught 13 years at several Universities for the Arts in the Netherlands. Besides this, I have devoted myself to education since 2006, and have shared experiences with students of all ages.
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