Christian Vanhenten is an engineer and NLP Master Practitioner. He has been trained in numerous communication techniques and has been practicing aikido for more than forty years. The author created AikiCom in 2008 while teaching aikido at his dojo in Namur, Belgium. Since then, he has devoted himself entirely to developing and teaching AikiCom and has been working actively on the spreading of aikido principles in the business world, education, coaching and therapeutic settings.