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Hands-On Workshop
Solving Challenges with Visual Tools
What Is a Visual Tools Workshop?
Participants in the workshop take an active role in creating the visuals – they draw their own ideas themselves.
Visual thinking is especially effective when working together on a complex challenge or goal, as it captures both the bigger picture and the finer details. In a hands-on visual tools workshop, the team and other stakeholders can immediately contribute – both to cracking the challenge and to shaping the outcome.
Each participant holds a marker and a station, bringing different ideas, experiences, and perspectives. To engage them in building collaboration and a shared goal, it is essential to create a safe and enabling space. The visual makes it possible to raise ideas, explain them easily, build upon them, and generate new collective wisdom from the group.
In the workshop, there is also space to share dreams and concerns. Together, we transform them into a goal that everyone can understand.
Workshop Types
Customer Journey Design
The definition of a “customer” is broad – it can be a student, an employee, a resident, or a service user. Through visual journey mapping, we explore motivations and perceptions that shape decisions and paths. This deep understanding enables us to design precise solutions and shape better experiences.
Ecosystem Mapping
An ecosystem map reveals both the immediate and wider environment: identifying where there is abundance and where there is scarcity, making informed decisions, choosing partners, and spotting challenges.
The visual mapping process makes it possible to see the big picture without losing the ability to dive into the details.
Preparing Work Plans
Work plans can start in many ways – by mapping what exists, brainstorming, or envisioning a desired future. In the end, the plan must lead to a clear path with defined goals, milestones, partners, resources, and risk management. A visual map makes the process easy to follow and keeps us on track.
Vision Building
The vision-building process creates a shared visual of a desired future, shaped together by workshop participants. We then refine and sharpen this image into a clear vision that unites all stakeholders and helps them act – together or individually – to achieve it.
Brainstorming & Innovation
Brainstorming with visual tools sparks creativity – when ideas meet on the page, something new comes to life. By capturing and shaping ideas visually, teams can explore, refine, and share them with clarity, giving every idea a chance to grow.
It’s a process that fuels innovation, breaks old patterns, and opens the door to fresh solutions
From Our Workshops
Toward a Five-Year Plan
Ramat HaNegev Regional Council
The Challenge – Looking ahead into an uncertain future and the need for planning and preparation in order to provide residents with all the services and opportunities they deserve over the next five years. This is a complex task that requires broad yet focused thinking, shared by all council teams.
The Outcome – A detailed future vision and the key steps needed to achieve the optimal scenario. This enabled the council staff and officials to approach the process of writing the plan with clarity, alignment across departments, and synchronization with the head of the council.
Public Engagement Workshop in Reineh
Maoz
the new light rail station in Reineh. The aim of the session was to create and promote opportunities for meaningful development and to encourage the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders in both the geographic and social periphery.
The Outcome – The planners encountered the needs, aspirations, and concerns of the local community, and together explored how to maximize the opportunities the light rail could bring to the town and the wider region.
“The train will connect us to Haifa and Nazareth – but it will also connect them to us"
Experts’ Brainstorming Session
ILGBC
The Challenge – Formulating a vision and recommendations for establishing the National Shading Initiative. The professionals involved in the process shared their visions with one another and co-developed them through drawings of the possible space.
The Outcome – A complete picture of a vision that brings together the diverse perspectives and aspirations of all stakeholders – professionals, municipalities, and more.
The workshop was developed as part of a broader process led by Geffen Consulting.
Mapping and Building a Foundation for Human Capital Development
Ministry of Health
The Challenge – To understand, map, and create the conditions that would attract medical professionals to come, stay, work, and live in the periphery.
The Outcome – In the workshop, the career journeys of medical professionals became clear, along with what they need in order to realize their potential in the periphery. By the end of the session, the strategy for action was defined, and all that remained was to prepare the materials to package the story – to explain it and drive the initiative forward.
Engaging Partners and Pooling Resources
Maoz
The Challenge – Connecting and engaging a diverse range of stakeholders – including government bodies, municipalities, philanthropy, entrepreneurs, and civil society – in a regional partnership. Through a visual mapping of the various activities taking place in the area today, it became possible to identify opportunities, overlaps, and gaps in specific domains. This made it easier for representatives of the different organizations to see themselves in the picture and connect to the initiative.
The Outcome – The participants defined their roles in creating the mechanism that would provide comprehensive support for the medical staff at the new center.
Rethinking Assumptions and Modeling Alternatives
Hotam-Teach First Israel
The Challenge – In collaboration with leading teachers from East Jerusalem, who represent the future management of schools, we re-examined the underlying assumptions of current school management. Following this, we developed meaningful alternatives designed to address the needs of all stakeholders in the education system.
The Outcome – A visual that captures and explains the shared development process of an alternative model for today’s school operations, with an emphasis on student self-management.
Mapping Opportunities in the Ecosystem
TOM
The Challenge – A methodical mapping of personal and local potential, alongside identifying opportunities for collaboration, is a crucial process for community leaders and Makers working for people with special needs worldwide. However, it is also a complex task – one that visual tools can effectively support.
The Outcome – After learning the visual tools and the mapping methodology, the path to identifying opportunities, setting priorities, and creating new collaborations became short and clear.
Extracting an Organizational Work Model
Maoz North
The Challenge – Extracting the organizational DNA in order to preserve its identity during a merger with a larger organization.
The Outcome – Following a two-day in-depth workshop process using a variety of visual tools, we succeeded in building and articulating the organization’s work model and the unique way its team operates. To share and explain these insights, the process was accompanied by an impact presentation that told the organization’s story and presented all the information gathered in a clear and visual way for additional stakeholders.
Developing Skills to Lead Innovation in the Organization
Clalit Health Services
The Challenge – Creating a culture of innovation and creativity within the district’s administrative domain.
The Outcome – In the workshop, the different administrative teams were introduced to a variety of practical and applicable tools, which they then used to develop ideas for solving the challenges on their desks.
Creative and innovative administration is the key to better service.
General Structure of a Workshop Process
A workshop is a space to voice dreams and concerns – and together, we turn them into a goal everyone can share.
Deep Dive and Development
To design an effective, pleasant, and precise workshop – one that does not waste valuable team resources but instead serves as a significant multiplier and catalyst – we begin with a discovery process. This includes conversations and a study of the field, the challenges, and the existing processes.
Each workshop is different, just as every organization is unique. The variables are many: people, timing, domain, regulations, structure, culture, language, and more.
During the discovery phase, we hold several meetings with the client and relevant stakeholders who can help us uncover both the visible and hidden motivations behind the challenge.
For every challenge, we design the optimal workshop process – tailored to that moment in time, to the goals, and to the participants. The workshop design is built together with the client, in a transparent manner that ensures accuracy and alignment with the challenge.
The Workshop
The workshop is based on visual tools, active participation, and team engagement – everyone draws.
We create a safe and supportive space for trying, experimenting, and expressing ideas through visuals: “It doesn’t have to be pretty – it has to be clear.”
There is room for everyone to be heard, and every voice matters in creating the group’s collective wisdom.
Visual thinking generates fresh perspectives and invites creativity. When an idea can simply be shown, it saves unnecessary words and lengthy explanations.
The Outcome
The shared creative experience connects participants to the goal they have defined and refined together.
Using worksheets and templates provides a visual record that makes it easy to review all the ideas generated during the work, ensuring that nothing “falls through the cracks” or gets lost.
Throughout the workshop, we create a large poster that gathers the process and its outcomes.
This poster remains with the group, accompanying them on their journey – aesthetic, impressive, unique, and filled with meaningful visual content.
Impact Presentation
Sometimes it is necessary to pass on the outcomes and share them with additional stakeholders who did not take part in the workshop. In such cases, we create a clear, polished, and visually appealing graphic whose purpose is to explain the insights or proposals that emerged, telling the story through accessible metaphors and images. In this way, new partners can be engaged with the outcomes, creating a greater and longer-lasting impact.
Visualizing a simple or complex model can make its explanation far easier.
A picture is worth a thousand words – and a picture with words is worth even more.
Contact Us
Noam@ClearVision.org.il
Tal Kamil - 050-7425303
Noam Werner - 052-3864893
Ramot Menashe 1924500
Every challenge is unique – and we craft a tailored visual thinking process that turns complexity into clarity and impact.
