Kontur works, facilitates and leads change
empowered by visuals.
We create clarity and a clear outline for your project.
Kontur [german, f ] stands for outline, contour, shape.
From book illustrations and learning materials to strategic visuals and live graphic recording on your next conference: we’ve got you covered.
work with us
We take pride in finding tailored solutions for our clients in Europe’s capital Brussels and the metropolitan region Rhine-Neckar, the home of our small, but excellent office.
GRAPHIC RECORDING
Graphic Recording is the craft of drawing live in order to visually record ideas, lectures and talks. This helps to remember their essence more deeply and opens up a way to reflect and discuss. In addition it creates an eye-catching documentation.
For Conferences, Events, Participation Processes & Festivals.
VISUALS
We’re masters at visual storytelling. Together we’ll find the right image to convey your message with clarity and beauty. From book illustrations and learning materials to strategic visuals for your workplace: we’ve got you covered.
For everyone who knows a picture is worth a thousand words.
FACILITATION
With over a decade of experience in meeting facilitation, we’ll bring your gathering to the next level. Focus on your content, while we support the preparations, hold space, introduce participatory methods and make sure all voices are heard.
For Leaders and Changemakers bringing people together.
learn with us
We train and teach teams, coaches and professionals how to use visuals for more impact and ease, at work and in meetings.
VISUAL COACHING
In this two hour session you’ll gain powerful visual skills, discover your own unique style, get personal feedback and boost your confidence in using visuals at work. Treat yourself to a playful, multifaceted and profound learning experience.
One-on-One in Heidelberg, Mannheim or online.
VISUAL TEAMWORK
Stretching from half a day to three days, we’ll dive into working visually with your team. We draw from an array of practical exercises, useful frameworks and years of experience to make you shine at presenting, meeting, working and leading the way with visuals.
For Teams in Brussels and the metropolitan area Rhine-Neckar.
LEARNING JOURNEY
Our learning journeys are designed for your team(s) to grow together and deepen your understanding of how you collaborate, co-create and shape what lies ahead. Starting from your strengths and needs, we’ll practice, teach and share the foundations of our work.
For Organisations in Belgium and South-Germany.
affairs of the heart
We’ve specialized in creating refined visuals on delicate topics such as trauma, pain and grief with nature as an infinite source of solace and inspiration.
PLANET PAIN
Planet pain is a book [in dutch] on recovering from traumatic ecological grief and finding ways to live in and through the ecological crises of these times. It’s a piece of co-creation, illustrated and written by Lara Schmelzeisen, together with Ybe Casteleyn, Lara’s mother, who works as a trauma-expert and Jill Marchant, a poet living in a tiny house in Belgium.
For all bookworms, nature lovers and grieving souls out there.
VISUAL PSYCHO-EDUCATION
You would like to enhance your teachings with top-notch visuals? Are you looking for a distinct and beautiful way to stand out with your content or learning material? Or would you simply like to make a lasting impression in live sessions with your clients? We’ll support you in finding and adopting a unique visual style for your educational content.
For Authors, Coaches, Therapists and all the teachers out there that cherish visual learning.
VISUAL STORYTELLING
Your work is all about relationship, about talking with and holding space for other human beings? That’s beautiful and important, but it isn’t always easy to explain what you’re actually doing, let alone put it on display. We’re masters at visual storytelling. Together we’ll find the right image to convey your know-how with clarity and beauty.
For Therapists, Doula’s, Councellors and Everyone, helping other people.
foundations of our work
We’re connected to a wide woven network of learning communities both online, on land and in local commons. We don’t believe in getting bigger. We believe in getting more connected.
Art of Hosting & Harvesting
The Art of Hosting is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. In full lenght it reads the Art of Hosting and Harvesting conversations that matter and offers a wide framework for anyone interested in participatory leadership.
Ritual Work & Grief Facilitation
Rituals can have a transformative power in our everyday actions as well as when everything seems to fall apart, when we grieve and loose what we love. They connect us to what is more-than-human and allow us to dive deep into the mystery and magic of being alive. Our understanding of ritual and grief work is shaped by the circlewise institute.
If you would like to book us to teach, talk or present on any of the topics above, feel free to get in touch.
Permaculture Design
Permaculture is a whole systems design approach based on learning from ecosystems, mimicking nature and co-creating a future-proof culture on earth. Originally applied in the field of agriculture, it is now widely used to design living systems, be it a garden, an organisation or your own inner landscape.