Visual Mastery for Professionals

Capture the Essentials. Design the Impact.

Make key messages visible, memorable, and actionable.

“A high-intensity, two-day immersive program designed for experts to amplify their visual influence and facilitation power.”

Master Four Core Visual Workflows

During this program, you will practice four essential visual methodologies that elevate your leadership, consulting, and facilitation practice.

No artistic background is required — we turn “drawing a blank” into drawing with purpose.

Brasov May 22 / 2024.

Practical Mastery & Immediate Impact

This is a high-intensity, practice-oriented program designed for immediate results. We skip the fluff and focus on the practical skills that trainers, consultants, and HR professionals need most. You will leave the session with a refined toolkit that you can apply to your very next meeting or workshop.

The training focuses on real-world scenarios, ensuring that every technique you learn is directly transferable to your professional practice. Upon successful completion of the two-day program, participants are awarded a Certificate of Achievement to recognize their new competencies.

This training empowers you to:

  • Command the Canvas: Use markers, flip-charts, and large-format media with absolute confidence.
  • Master Analog Techniques: Explore and apply professional-grade visual tools in real-time.
  • Visual Process Design: Learn to architect and facilitate organizational development journeys through a visual lens.
  • High-Impact Deliverables: Create polished, large-scale templates and professional analog presentations.
  • Interactive Engagement: Use visual anchors to drive deeper participant involvement and co-creation.

Optional: Extended 8-week online mentorship and personalized feedback sessions are available upon request for organizations or groups.

“I teach what I do, from the ground up. We get to know the markers from tip to toe; we learn how the paper coils and how it lies. You will fall in love with the pastels—and I must admit, I still love every moment of sharing this craft.”

– Szilárd Strenner –

Visual Strategist & Human Systems Consultant

Meet Your Trainer

With a multifaceted professional background, I have spent over 15 years bridging the worlds of design, psychology, and business through visual process facilitation.

  • Corporate & Global Experience: Since 2010, I have collaborated with domestic and multinational corporations (including long-term projects with firms like Shell) to visualize internal dynamics, strategic leadership, and HR processes.
  • Rooted in Human Dynamics: My foundation as a Mental Health Specialist and Group Leader allows me to integrate psychological depth into every visual tool, ensuring they serve the people, not just the paper.
  • The Art of Craft: My decade-long experience in applied arts—including design work for the Herend Porcelain Manufactory—brings a unique aesthetic precision and “craftsman’s touch” to the training.
  • Proven Methodology: Since 2011, our continuously evolving Visual Techniques Training Programme has empowered hundreds of corporate and freelance consultants, facilitators, and coaches to turn complex ideas into clear, actionable visual journeys.

The Transformation: After the Training

Master a Universal Visual Language.

Unlock the ability to express complex ideas freely and confidently. Drawing is the most powerful tool to engage, influence, and lead. It communicates even in your absence, breaking through barriers that words alone cannot.

Elevated Professional Presence: You will write with newfound clarity and legibility. From simple icons and figures to structured frames and bullet points, you’ll use visual anchors with total confidence. Whether sketching on a notepad or a large-format sheet, your notes will become structured, professional, and straight to the point..

Visual Recording & Information Management: Master the signature “Grafacity” techniques to capture and manage knowledge in real-time. Whether in workshops, consulting sessions, or high-level conferences, you will distill the essence of the conversation. Never lose a word where losing a word means losing value.

Strategic Process Facilitation: Learn to design and use large-scale templates to guide individual or group journeys. From innovation sprints to strategic planning, you will work fluidly across all scales—from A5 cards to multi-meter wall charts—to enhance collaboration.

Visual Consulting (1:1): Bring the power of analog tools into your coaching and client meetings. Engage your partners by co-creating distilled, visual essentials right before their eyes.

High-Impact Presentations: Master the “Big Picture” approach. Using elegant analog tools, you will capture attention and leave a lasting impression without ever worrying about file formats, USBs, or projectors. Your message remains visible and impactful long after the meeting ends.

Our Impact in Numbers

We are proud that our participants consistently rate the training between 8.5 and 9.8 out of 10, reflecting the profound professional value of the experience.

It was something new to me. What I realised today, you don’t need to be an artist, so you can draw stuff.
You can set your imaginations free and just do whatever you want to express.
And everything becomes real on paper. It does not need to be perfect, because nobody is perfect.
It has a meaning for you or for the viewers. And I think that’s it.

Elena Ion

Highclere Consulting, Brasov, 2024.

Vizuális Technikák Képzés – Veszprém, 2020.

Mikor már nagyon untam az Excell táblázatokat és elegem volt a számok száraz racionalitásából: jelentkeztem a képzésre.
Valami kreatívra vágytam. A Vizuális Technikák Képzés nem csak ahhoz segített hozzá, hogy bebizonyítsam, hogy mégiscsak tudok rajzolni.
Nem csak megláttam azt, hogy képes vagyok új dolgokat tanulni, hanem gyakorlatilag egy új karrier irányába is elindított!
Jó helyen és jó emberek között voltam, kiragadva a BOSCH-os világból: ‘elkezdtem újrakezdeni’ magam.
Az utánkövetés 4 hete alatt 5 jegyzetfüzetet rajzoltam tele. Sőt rajzolt az egész család!
Az, hogy ennyire jó helyen lehettem, segített újradrótozni az életemet.
És most tessék: mennyivel többet adhatok (HR vezetőként) hogy munkám eredménye konkrét, kézzelfogható.
Elkezdjük szervezni a képzést házon belül is, hogy ezt mások is megtapasztalhassák és a moderátoraink is tudjanak így dolgozni.

Orosz Andrea

CHRO, BOSCH Maklár

Azelőtt borzalmas volt a táblaképem, ronda az írásom és mindez rendezetlen volt. Szükségem volt valami segítségre. A képzésen aztán eltűnt az a félelmem, hogy kell valamilyen alapképzettség. Hazavihettem egy csomó apró trükköt.
A program óta az emberkék mindig megjelennek a rajzaimon – ez sokban segít a flipchartra fókuszálni és ott tartani a figyelmet. Képzéseim színvonalához sokat adott hozzá a szebb táblakép. Sőt! Azt vettem észre, hogy nagyon gyakran alkalmazom értekezleteken is az itt megszerzett tudást, aminek nem mellékes hozadéka az, hogy azóta el is tudom olvasni a kézírásomat 😊.

Még egy hozadék: minden tréning végén a csapat egy része lefényképezi a papírokat, amelyeket megmutatnak munkatársaiknak, így a képzés tudásanyaga is többször kerül eléjük, aminek eredményeként az implementáció is jobban működik. Kaptam visszajelzést ügyfeleimtől, hogy eljutott hozzájuk a lefényképezett kép, így megerősödtek abban, h érdemes volt bennünket megbízni a munkával. Jelenleg, az online értekezleteken is így jegyzetelek.
A Covid alatti projektjeinkben 1:1-ben tudtuk használni e technikákat és az új csapatomnak is rövidesen átadom ezeket az alapokat.
Köszönöm, úgy tűnik többet kaptam, mint amire számítottam!

Almási Gábor

ügyvezető, AGORA Oktatási Intézet

Mielőtt Szilárddal találkoztam volna, rajzaimat egyhangúnak éreztem, színeket nem használtam, inkább csak másoltam, olyan “leülős” módon.
A képzés aztán megmutatta, hogyan rajzoljak mások előtt gyorsan.
Megtanultam, hogy tudok spontán, jelen időben, frissen rajzolni és mások előtt kifejezni önmagam.
Pár hónappal a képzés után Görögországban “real time-ban” végigjegyzeteltem egy egész napos programot, sőt azóta hazai és nemzetközi konferenciákra is hívnak. Most már teljesen bátran dolgozok a filctollakkal – amit azelőtt egyáltalán nem használtam és sokat színezek, sőt már festek is.
Egy szabad, nyitott tér vált számomra elérhetővé.

Gyovai Ferenc

Fekete Sereg Ifjúsági Egyesület

I am part of the Highclere Consulting team which organized this great facilitation course. My motivation was to help other young and early stage researchers to build their capacity with being able to host workshops and to be able to host more meaningful stakeholder engagement activities.

We learned basic things also about how to prepare the room, how to prepare the flipcharts, how to cut the paper, and then we went further into the workshop and we practised writing, and how to draw simple objects in order to express the different points of views of the participants in the meetings.

Szilard did his best to create a great learning environment and process for us.

I can say that now, even though I’m still not a very good artist, I can draw, and I’m not afraid to draw during stakeholder events in European Research and Innovation projects.

I would recommend this experience to anyone who is afraid to be creative and who is afraid to draw because it’s not difficult to turn ideas into visuals. Also this Workshop had changed the view that i had on myself. Now I am much more confident on my own skills.”

Cătălina Rogozan

Highclere Consulting, Brasov, 2024.

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Your take: What you will gain

Beyond the skills, you will leave with a complete professional toolkit and the mindset to use it.

  • A Radical Mindset Shift: Walk away with the unshakable confidence of “I can draw—and I know why I’m doing it.”
  • Mastery of 4 Core Visual Methodologies: Techniques that immediately elevate your facilitation, consulting, and training practice.
  • The “Grafacity” Visual Manual: A comprehensive, 70+ page guide and visual dictionary in English—your go-to resource for years to come.
  • Guided Practice Booklet: A dedicated workbook to consolidate your skills during and after the sessions.
  • Professional Starter Kit: A curated set of high-quality markers to get you started the very next day.
  • Expert Mentorship: Personalized, real-time feedback on every visual you create—from quick icons to complex group worksheets.
  • Premium Environment: Unlimited healthy refreshments, fruits, and snacks to keep your creative energy high.
  • Community & Support (Optional): Access to private consultations and an exclusive online community for peer learning and ongoing professional support.

Comprehensive Curriculum & Workshop Modules

The training is a carefully structured journey from foundational skills to advanced professional application.

Visual Techniques Course. Budapest Dec / 2017.

What Sets This Program Apart?

Most visual trainings focus only on drawing. 

This program is unique because it is built on 15 years of high-level organizational consulting and a multidisciplinary background that merges art with group psychology.

The Psychology of Groups: As a qualified Mental Health Specialist and Group Leader, Szilárd integrates psychological depth into facilitation. You won’t just learn to sketch; you will learn how visuals influence group dynamics, safety, and human connection.

Strategic Frameworks: Our curriculum is deeply rooted in Design Thinking and the Art of Hosting philosophy. We move beyond simple “drawing” to use visuals as a strategic tool for hosting meaningful conversations and driving organizational change.

Cross-Sector Expertise: Benefit from a trainer with a proven track record across Corporate, Government, and NGO sectors. Whether you work for a global firm like Shell or a local community initiative, these techniques are battle-tested in diverse, high-stakes environments.

15 Years of Teaching Excellence: With over a decade and a half specifically dedicated to Visual Techniques Training, our methodology is refined, high-impact, and designed for immediate professional application.

Design Meets Craftsmanship: Led by Szilárd Strenner, whose foundation lies in 10 years of applied arts—including design work for the world-renowned Herend Porcelain Manufactory. This ensures an elite aesthetic standard and a deep understanding of visual harmony.

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Comprehensive Curriculum

Our training is meticulously designed for high-level professional application, reflecting the current market needs and best practices of the European consulting landscape.

*While rooted in local expertise, this program is part of a global visual language movement. 🙂

Day 1:

Building the Visual Vocabulary (09:00 – 18:00)

 

  • The Architecture of Visual Communication: Core principles and the cognitive power of imagery.
  • Precision Drawing Techniques: Mastering pictograms, icons, and figures tailored for professional and industry-specific contexts.
  • The Power of Metaphor: Using signs and symbols to simplify complex organizational concepts.
  • Professional Typography: Developing clear, authoritative, and highly legible handwriting.
  • Information Hierarchy: Advanced use of bullets, frames, and structural anchors.
  • Strategic Color Theory: Applying color with intent to guide attention and evoke the right impact.
  • Creative Flow: Targeted exercises to unlock your creative potential and overcome the “blank page” barrier.

Skill Integration: A consolidation project to anchor the day’s learning.

Day 2:

Advanced Recording & Visual Facilitation  (09:00 – 17:00)

  • High-Impact Posters: Crafting visually striking messages with speed and professional polish.
  • Graphic Worksheets (Templates): Designing structured visuals to drive team engagement and co-creation.
  • Live Visual Recording: Mastering the art of real-time knowledge capture—blending text and imagery for an unforgettable impact.
  • The “PaperPrezi”: Creating analog presentations that command the room and remain memorable for years.
  • Visual Consulting & Advisory: Transforming 1:1 or group sessions into tangible, creative, and results-oriented experiences.

Materials Provided:

We provide a premium selection of all necessary professional tools: high-grade markers (various tips), specialized papers, adhesives, pastels, chalks, and correction tools.

Márton Bodor
MBA Közgazdász, Vezetői hatékonyság tanácsadó – 5S Consulting

About the Trainer

“You may have doubts… BUT!”

I understand the mindset shift needed to unlock your creativity. My goal is to empower you to pick up a marker and speak the global language of visual communication—boldly, clearly, and without hesitation.

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Szilárd Strenner

Visual Strategist & Human Systems Consultant

  • 25+ Years of Expertise: Extensive background in HR and organizational development, working with global leaders such as Airbus, Bosch, TESCO, Shell, and Deutsche Telekom.
  • Author & Pioneer: Creator of the Grafacity Visual Training Manual, a foundational resource for visual practitioners.
  • Multidisciplinary Approach: Szilárd integrates three human-focused degrees to facilitate change at individual, group, and organizational levels.
  • Design Thinking with a Functional Edge: As a former Furniture Designer, he ensures that every visual solution is not just aesthetic, but primarily functional and result-oriented.

In-House Training: Custom Solutions for Your Team

Scale the impact across your organization.

Why bring this training directly to your team? A tailored internal program is more than just skill-building—it is a high-energy, collaborative experience that aligns your people.

  • Context-Specific Curriculum: We don’t believe in “one-size-fits-all.” Whether you are an IT Architecture team, a Strategy Consulting firm, or a Manufacturing HR unit, we customize every icon and metaphor to your specific industry. (We won’t draw forklifts for cloud computing sessions).
  • Strategic Team Building: Learning a new language together fosters psychological safety and peer support. Your team will laugh, create, and solve problems together, doubling the ROI of the training.
  • Total Flexibility: We adapt to your schedule and operational needs. Programs can be delivered on-site, remote, or in a hybrid format, with duration and focus adjusted to your goals.
  • Long-Term Cultural Impact: When an entire department speaks the same visual language, meetings become shorter, decisions become clearer, and internal communication gains a massive boost in efficiency.

Ready to transform your team’s communication? Let’s start the conversation today.

What You Risk Missing Out On

The cost of staying in the “text-only” zone.

A Strategic Workflow AssetWithout visual tools, you are losing the most effective way to anchor learning and drive long-term behavioral change. Visuals don’t just record information—they catalyze transformation.

Elevated Client Experience: Imagine clients so inspired by your guidance that they proudly share their workshop visuals with their entire network. When you facilitate visually, you move from being a “service provider” to an “experience creator.”

Built-in Marketing Advantage: Every visual you create in a session is a tangible, branded artifact of your expertise. In a digital world, these unique, high-quality visuals act as organic, powerful marketing—attracting new clients effortlessly.

Operational Efficiency: Stop spending hours post-meeting summarizing notes and translating raw data into reports. A visually captured session is a finished product the moment the marker hits the paper, saving you billable time and maximizing the immediate impact for your client.

Who leads the program?

Szilard Strenner, general manager of Grafacity, graphic artist, illustrator, facilitator, visual coach, strategic and organisation development consultant. He leads and follows up the visual techniques training and gives over the obtainable knowledge. Know more about Szilard.

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Frequently asked questions:

1. How many participants will there be?

There’s a maximum of 15 people in a group. Our experience shows it’s the ideal headcount, as it guarantees transparency and it gives us the opportunity to optimally combine the individual and small team work phases. This size ensures that there’s sufficient attention for all participants, and thus they can receive direct feedback from the trainer and peers.

2. Who are the participants of the training program?

Based on our experiences, a majority of them are freelancers or fellow workers of a trainer or consultant company, some of them work in Human Resources and a considerable number of them are from NGO’s with consultant and trainer background. However, there are also public activists, graphic artists and general managers. All of them are committed towards team assistance, organisational development and coaching. Most of them are from Hungary, Budapest or from the countryside, but we have had trainings with foreign participants too. This creates perceptibly healthy, varied teams.

3. Where does the training take place?

The training is in Budapest, at a place that is easily accessible by public transport. We share all venue and transport details with registered participants in due course.

4. What’s your process for supporting participants in implementing the material in their own practice?

After some of our earlier trainings, following the intense period of training, with the fading of experiences, participants got stuck in their own development and lost motivation.

Therefore at Grafacity we reinforce the Visual Techniques training by a 2 month follow-up, where participants share with each other their own works, questions, dilemmas and results on the group’s closed online platform. Here they can get new information, instructions and feedback, and peers can help each other as well.

Further possible forms of support:

  • individual consultation,
  • consultation in groups,
  • face to face meetings or online consultation.

We have also launched our Grafacity Visual Techniques Alumni group and workshop in 2017, where we meet up monthly to practise what we have learnt in the course, and to „sharpen our arms”.

 

5. What does the participation fee cover?
  • All tools and materials you will be using during the training
  • Training manual and exercise book
  • Rental fee of the room
  • Buffet and refreshments in the breaks: tea, coffee, snacks, vegetables, fruits
  • Great atmosphere
  • A two-months follow-up through the closed online platform set up for the group
  • individual consultation after the training: max. 50 minutes per person, and
  • in case of need, group consultation after the training: max. 3 hours.
     
6. What if I really cannot draw?

Most of the outside spectators who watch us drawing think that this job requires some special kind of talent or capability. Many put it on their application form too, saying „I cannot draw.” Despite this, the visual techniques trainings we’ve run so far proved that everybody, who participates actively and conscientiously and who performs the tasks that are part of the training, will be capable of independently preparing the individual, flipchart-sized or larger, textual and drawn visual tools he or she needs for supporting personal or group processes.

You don’t need to be an artist. We don’t even teach art. What we do is that we renew a communication system that builds up from simple elements. We broke down the tools of the visual process assistance into tiny elements that are attainable for everyone. Sufficiently trained participants can apply it with more and more confidence in their everyday work.

7. What does the 100% guarantee mean?

It means that we offer a 100% money-back guarantee. Don’t hesitate to apply to our visual techniques training: as for the participation fee, you risk nothing at all! If you have conscientiously worked through our exercises and we fail to keep our above promise, you can simply return your training book, the tools you got from us and within 30 days after training closure we issue a credit note and return the paid participation fee to your account.

We are certain about the success of the step-by-step led process so we’d like to ease your anxiety before you make this important decision. 

We don’t see many such guarantees in the field of open trainings, and we didn’t offer it in the early years. However, based on our experience we are convinced that these tools are available for EVERYONE, and can be used successfully, regardless of earlier qualifications or artistic talent.

Efféle garanciával nem szoktunk találkozni a nyitott tréningek területén, és mi sem kínáltuk ezt az első években. Tapasztalataink alapján meggyőződtünk, hogy ezek az eszközök MINDENKI számára hozzáférhetőek és sikeresen felhasználhatóak, előképzettségre és tehetségre való tekintet nélkül.

8. Do you teach at the training how to use visual coaching tools of visual facilitation?

At the first, basic level of Visual Techniques Training we don’t teach usage of specific visual coaching tools. In practice, we have a look at what effect the note-taking on large-scale sheet takes on the individual consultations, but we don’t train the participants how to use the special tools of visual coaching. 

During the two days we acquire the basics of visual techniques. The application of these techniques, i.e. in which situations and context the participant will use them, depends on his or her preparedness and on the competences he or she acquired earlier. We only cast an eye on the toolset of visual facilitation, and just briefly. And if we look at it from visual facilitation perspective, then what we basically do during these 2 days, is laying the groundwork for these tools.

9. What’s your process for supporting participants in implementing the material in their own practice?

After some of our earlier trainings, following the intense period of training, with the fading of experiences, participants got stuck in their own development and lost motivation.

Therefore at Grafacity we reinforce the Visual Techniques training by a 2 month follow-up, where participants share with each other their own works, questions, dilemmas and results on the group’s closed online platform. Here they can get new information, instructions and feedback, and peers can help each other as well.

Further possible forms of support:

  • individual consultation,
  • consultation in groups,
  • face to face meetings or online consultation.

VÁLTOZTATott szöveg_: We have also launched our Grafacity Visual Techniques Alumni group and workshop in 2017, where we meet up monthly to practise what we have learnt in the course, and to „sharpen our arms”.

10. What else is important? Logistics…

 

  • It’s worth coming in comfortable shoes and dark clothes. We’ll work quite a bit with felt tip pens and chalk and these may leave traces on your outfit.
  • Come reposed, as the 2 days are going to be REALLY intense. The program will engage hardly ever used nerve tracks and cerebral peripheries that are likely to be less trained. So, we’re all going to get tired.
  • Don’t worry about bringing your “I cannot draw!” thoughts along, because you’ll forget them all while drawing.
  • Lunch is self-sponsored or brought along, but we can help with organisation. We can order from the offer of great in-house facilities or those of the neighbourhood, the selection is wide (lactose-, gluten-, protein-, etc.-free and dietary food), but we’re also ready to organise other cold buffet or hot meal, should the group desire.
11. Do you take on in-house training?

Of course. Each year we make several in-house trainings and workshops for leaders, salesmen, teachers, in-house trainers and students. We configure the optimal training construction for clients from large corporations, universities, NGO’s too, adapted to their needs: it can vary from 2-3 hours’ workshop through a one-day or the “normal” 2-days groundwork laying programs.

The bottleneck is most often the venue: we’ll need vast and even walls to place our papers on.

12. We don’t have 2 days / we want to be trained only in this or that part / can you come for a single day as well?

 

Certainly, a single day can also leave lasting traces on the participant’s competence profile, if the expectations are specific enough: “We want to use it only in sales situations, for 1to1 negotiations.” or “It’s just so that our trainers make nicer notes on flipcharts.”

Even though the timeframe is much tighter in these cases, the group can attain the well-defined target with self-confidence. We get to know the necessary basics in a more focused manner, and exercise generally one technique (tool, application) which has been selected in advance (in comparison with the 5 visual toolset that the 2-day training can cover.)

13. How about the feedback on your trainings?

The feedback is good. Lately, we’ve been following up precisely on our participants’ satisfaction. The average rate for our open trainings measures … (on a scale from 0 to 10). So the satisfaction lately has been between 95-98%.

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