Viola Clark

formerly Tschendel

Visual Sensemaking and Graphic Facilitation

Online and Offline, Digital and on Paper
Strategic Outcome Harvesting
Surfacing, anchoring, and mirroring potential, process, and change through instant visualizations and collective sense-making. 

+1 218 940 1523

    hello@violaclark.com

Online Hosting, Facilitation, and Graphic Recording

This might be a time when your need for meeting and working online is rising.

Great hosting, facilitation, and outcome harvesting including digital graphic recording are possible online. I draw from a global network of highly skilled (online) facilitators and we can help. My partners and I can support you in designing, facilitating, and visualizing your online meetings, strategic planning engagements, courses, and conferences. 

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I practice and offer an organizational and social artform referred to as


Graphic Facilitation

Graphic Recording

Visual Harvesting



​both visualizing digitally in online meetings, events, courses, webinars, etc.
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and on site, face to face, visualizing on paper, posters, and boards.
Wholeness, Essence, Beauty
in Service of Learning, Clarity, and wiser Acting.

I involve body, heart, and mind in my work and to bring the essence of the experience, the content, and the context into a visible, tangible artefact.

What is new and truly innovative has not been seen before. As we collaborate, explore topics, connections, and dynamics, and cocreate something new, I witness, and I mirror with form. 

It certainly can be beautiful, but the true purpose is to deepen our conversations, explorations, and awareness of what is happening, what else is possible, what we are learning, and what we would like to do next.
​​What does that mean in practice?​​

I am present with you in the room or online space and listen deeply to conversations and content from meetings, courses, events - anything where people engage with each other professionally and personally around a particular purpose or question.​

I hand draw in different styles depending on the context and what is asked for, from very strategic and close to what is spoken, to intuitive sensing what is between the lines.

The visual is an artefact that stays, so you have something to call on to recall, to share, and to communicate. However, the visual is not the end, it is another beginning for deeper conversation and iteration, and an invitation for next steps.

Often, this is appreciated in contexts that are complex, fluid, dynamic, new, or where a lot of things are unknown. Organizational creatives, seekers, innovators, and agents of change and possibility are my main clients, colleagues, and collaborators.
​​​Examples of application

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  1. Online Graphic Recording
    Online Graphic Recording
    With iPad pro, digital pen, and drawing apps live drawing and screen sharing is possible in the online spaces. Here, an organization embarks on an innovation journey to re-invent themselves.
  2. Capturing Practice Visually
    Capturing Practice Visually
    How do we work together? What are we experimenting with and discovering as we innovate?
  3. Visual Poetry
    Visual Poetry
    Deep listening and sensing into what a group of people is bringing forth. Captured as abstract visualization and poetry and reflected back to the group.
  4. Sketchy essence
    Sketchy essence
    Sometimes digital is not the best and sketches on paper capture the essence of moments of learning and development.
  5. Landscapes of Learning
    Landscapes of Learning
    Or Learnscapes, maps of experience and meaning over time of a gathering, event, conference. Here the summary of 4 days evolving around Authentic Leadership in Action, created by 3 artists. Including Vangie Garcia, Jessica Riehl, and myself.
  6. Strategic Harvesting
    Strategic Harvesting
    Surfacing, capturing, and sharing of the intentional and emergent outcomes of projects, meetings, conferences, trainings, and trnasformational journeys. Read more about Strategic Harvesting further below on this site. There is a whole section about it.
  7. Dynamic Process Visuals
    Dynamic Process Visuals
    What's happening in the room, the meeting, the conversation? Sensing the topics, questions, and stages in art form.
  8. Visual Essence of Meetings
    Visual Essence of Meetings
    I'm in the physical room and draw on paper - or, you call me in via online meeting space, video, and audio. I witness, draw, and speak back to you what I notice in real time.
  10. Harvesting as a skill
    Harvesting as a skill
    Although it sometimes appears to be magic, strategic and visual harvesting is a skill that can be learned. Here, during a training, the harvesting metaphor (think like a farmer, they know about harvesting) is explained with little movable icons.

Viola Clark ​formerly Tschendel

My Work​
I have worked internationally with "harvesting" conversations, meetings, and gatherings that matter since 2014, specializing in the practice of graphic facilitation, graphic recording, visual sensing and sensemaking. Translating and transposing the dynamics and words in the room into visual language, I create artwork in real time, both on paper in physical space and digitally in the online realm. I approach the surfacing, capturing, and sharing of content, insight, and dynamics as part of a strategic process, facilitate it at all stages, and include the subtle spheres of interaction and communication.
Besides that I am also a copper smith setting up my forge in Washington and an Access Consciousness Bars practitioner.



Background
I have been born and raised in Germany, academically educated in Germany, Spain, and Sweden, and I've worked and/or lived in many European countries, North and Central America, and Australia. Currently I'm based in the US in Duluth Minnesota.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Leisure and Tourism Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund, Germany and a Master of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. I'm trained as a multiplier for global learning in the field of international cooperation and I have learned, worked, grown and tought with the global Art of Hosting/Art of Participatory Leadership network for the last 7 years.

Contact me with questions and inquiries at hello@violaclark.com and via phone
​+1 218 940 1523.

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Online Meetings
Visual Essence
Organizational journeys
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Team meetings

Graphic recording
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Distilling the essence
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Intuition + Facts
Generative Visuals
Listening to stories and conversations, focused on essence, and using image and  metaphor to create a visual landscape 
Intuiting potential
Visual presencing
Visualizing the unseen

Drawing first,
then listening
to what is spoken
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Graphic Facilitation Templates
Illustrated Learning Journey
I custom design templates for hosts/facilitators to support and document process, teaching, conversations, reflection, and sharing of learning, including visual elements to work with them. Printable in high quality up to about flipchart size.
Distilling Visualizing the learnings and explored topics and concepts from a long-term learning journey
What's that?
When does a farmer think about the harvest? Right in the beginning of a new cycle, long before sowing the seeds and picking the fruits. Harvesting is a strategic and reflective learning practice and one of the core methodologies of Participatory Leadership. It's the metaphor of thinking like a farmer applied to project and organizational matters: of having a clear purpose, preparing the field accordingly at the beginning of the season, then sowing seeds, tending the crops, and at the end of the season, harvesting the fruits, processing and sharing them. This is not about being fluidly strategic: gaining clarity at the beginning of a journey, a design for a meeting or engagement about the purpose and questions. So the design of it all starts with the "harvest" in mind:

Why are we meeting? What would we like to get out of this project, innovation journey, or event? And what could we do to capture and share our experience and learning?  What would support us to move into wise actions?

The purpose of harvesting is not just documenting or beauty. It is to elevate the individual and collective meaning-making and progress and to enable people to act upon their learning and insight. What if surfacing, catpuring, synthesizing, and sharing the insights of our most important conversations can elevate their impact in the organisation and world? 

The capturing of harvest is most effective if done in multimodal ways, depending on what is needed: through scribing and notetaking, graphic recording and facilitation, photography and videos, theater and poetry, dance and song, and all sorts of social media.

A report? A website? A book? A new organizational structure?

Every organisation harvests already and all the time. The potential for innovation is in becoming intentional, mindful, and strategic about harvesting the experiences, insights, and actions from teams or the whole organisation. 
This visual came to life during the Harvesting and Collective Sensemaking online course designed and delivered by my colleagues Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen from Beehive Productions, with Chris Corrigan. Visit their Beehive website to find out more about them.