Creating Clarity Retreat
Transform Your Work With The Power Of Visual Tools. Become a Better Professional.
In an age of overload and anxiety, clarity is increasingly rare – and increasingly valuable.
If you are a business owner, leader, facilitator or visual practitioner, then you know how vital it is to see your situation clearly, to think clearly under pressure, and to make decisions based on a clear understanding of all the factors at play – not only for yourself but when working with others as well.
Yet our modern hyper-connected world, with endless streams of information and demands, can feel like it was purposely designed to destroy clarity, overlaying it with distractions and irrelevant details.
Visual Tools offer you a powerful way to reclaim your headspace and restore clarity to your thinking, decision-making and communication.
By sketching out your situation, problems, ambitions and options, you tease out your own thinking, combine it with inputs from other people, and arrive at common understanding of the challenges you face.
Once you have done this, you are in a position to make important decisions with clarity and therefore with confidence.
A practical approach to help you build clarity
The Creating Clarity Retreat will help you apply Visual Tools to your day-to-day business.
The workshop is based on The Clarity Framework, which Holger developed as a mental model powerful and flexible enough to address any creative or strategic challenge faced by you, your team or your organisation.
"It’s rare to meet someone who can really improve the way you communicate in no time. Holger is that someone."
Paris Thomas
Business Model Architect
Cologne, May 13-15th, 2020
9am - 5pm, Boskamp Farm, Cologne
This Retreat is designed to help you solve problems and have better workshops, meetings and everyday communications.
Learn how to use the Clarity Framework, a mental model designed to help you solve your business challenges and to facilitate workshops with your colleagues and partners.
Get your ticket now! Have any questions? Just drop me an email and I'll be happy to answer them!
A place to calm down and focus on the important things of your business
We'll have a super nice venue just outside of cologne. Beautiful surroundings, great food and guaranteed distraction free. And hopefully the weather will allow us to have a nice barbecue outside! This place is perfect to deep dive into your personal growth opportunities. You can even have hotel rooms right here to have the full immersion.
Photo by Boskamp Conference
The Agenda for our Retreat
What you will learn
- Why to use visual tools at all
- How to draw in the most simple manner
- How to understand your challenges and set your objectives
- How to visually map you plans, thoughts and ideas
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How to consolidate and present ideas, and visualize data
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How to use drawings to tell engaging and convincing stories
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How to make your visual plans, thoughts or ideas receive better feedback
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A way to use visual thinking to help create a shared vision, together with your colleagues, clients or other stakeholders
Who should attend?
- Business owners
- Leaders
- Strategists
- Facilitators
- Consultants
- Coaches
- Managers
- or Information Workers
You're all welcome! :)
No previous drawing experience is required!
You don’t need to be a great artist to communicate effectively with Visual Tools. Holger will even teach you some very cool techniques to help you instantly improve your drawing ability. And this workshop goes way beyond a drawing class...
... Because Holger will teach you not just how to draw, but how to capture a business challenge on paper - and how to solve it using the same Visual Toolkit.
Over the course of the day, you will learn to start building your library of Visual Tools. Through example, practice and feedback, you will gain confidence in your ability to use the tools in real-world situations as soon as you return to work.
Learn from a Master of Visual Thinking
Holger Nils Pohl is an internationally active Visual Strategist.
His expertise is helping and coaching teams to visualize, understand and communicate their strategy, innovation and change efforts.
He is the founder of the WorkVisual Institute, CEO of the Visual Manufactory GmbH and Creator of the WorkVisual App. He lectures at the University of Arts Berlin and the Hochschule Macromedia, University of Applied Sciences Cologne.
In his passion for developing for the future, he co-created the business game Playing Lean and the business comic Biz4Kids (with Alex Osterwalder).
"We spend an insane amount of time on making our messages clear, simple, and visual. To achieve this we draw on Holger's outstanding visual facilitation skills again and again.“ Alexander Osterwalder, Business Model Innovator
"Holger’s fresh and energetic approach to visuals was very inspiring to me. The training set the basis for using visuals throughout my professional and private life and I get incredibly positive feedback on my approach."
Andreas Frei
Innovation Manager
"I loved the workshops of Holger. His strength is to really understand the (inner) process of visual practices. Furthermore, Holger is a very the best teacher I’ve had so far."
Hasse Cox
Visual Storyteller
"Holgers workshop inspired me from the moment it started! The learnings and insights of the workshops helped me to make the next big step in my career."
