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Values-Navigated Communication (VNC) is a framework to lead difficult conversations with more clarity, less discomfort, and stronger alignment.

It’s inspired by Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication (NVC) — with the structure rethought and redefined for the context of working together in organizations. Find the basic idea, the principle, and a few of the strengths of Values-Navigated Communication here.

This won’t be a regular publication — but it’s the place where I want to keep developing the framework: making it more accessible, more practical, and going deeper on where AI fits into all of this. Subscribe if that interests you.

I’m Christoph. For almost two decades I’ve been inspiring, creating, facilitating, and leading spaces where great people do their best work. That has kept sparking ideas for tools that support and strengthen company culture and collaboration, like tscheck.in, enso, or The Dive.

I’m strongly shaped by KaosPilot Creative Leadership and Conscious Leadership, with mindfulness, self-reflection, and a pinch of poetry on top.

Nothing gets in the way of real collaboration like ambiguity, things left unsaid, a lack of trust, and unresolved conflict. Let’s clear them out of the way — one conversation at a time.

The Values-Navigated Communication framework and the materials describing it are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Use it, adapt it, translate it, teach it — just credit Christoph Faschian and link back to values-navigated.com.