About

Martin Haussmann
The graduate designer, specialist author (“UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen”), and bikablo founder loves nothing more than being faced with complex problems, which he then tackles with systematic creativity. This generates new training formats, visualization techniques, and dialogue methods – and an ever more profound understanding of the power and possibilities of pictures.

bikablo – thinking with your pen

Long before “Graphic Recording” or “Sketchnoting” became a trend, we belonged to the trailblazers of visual thinking and collaboration in Europe. Shortly after the start of the new millennium, the Kommunikationslotsen consultancy introduced methods such as World Café and Open Space to the German-speaking area. This package included visualization methods designed to retain knowledge gleaned from dialogue processes. This visual accompaniment of processes quickly became one of the hallmarks of our participative events for large groups.

Next, we provided our first visualization training in Cologne – and developed our first Visual Dictionary, the so-called “BIlderKArtenBLOck” (“picture cards pad”) as part of a series of products which quickly became bestsellers, distributed exclusively by neuland.com. “bi-ka-blo” became a registered trademark for visual thinking, learning, and collaboration.

In 2015 we established the bikablo akademie – which trains over three thousand beginners, advanced practitioners, and specialists each year.

Now, our visualization team at bikablo bildwerk (“bikablo picture works”) is using our 15 years of experience to create better dialogue and help support important change processes – with techniques such as Visual Storytelling, Graphic Recording, Visual Facilitation, and Visual Consulting.

Whether as a trainer or as a facilitator – we use visualization for targeted purposes, to enrich communication, strengthen dialogue, and give structure to thoughts. bikablo is a team of around thirty specialists in consulting, graphic design, training, and facilitation. These are people with open ears, large hearts, and a real passion for what they do.

We are convinced that you can generate change with the help of images. And that participation is essential for this – and community lies at the heart of it. We believe that good work should be fun. We are ambitious, and pragmatic. We don’t claim to always have an answer, but we do have a lot of good questions.

www.bikablo.com

 

 

Services

any dicipline of visual thinking, learning and collaboration

Languages

German, French, English, Spanish