OVERLAP.DK was founded in 2015 by facilitator and visual communicator Ia Brix Ohmann.

OVERLAP.DK works in three main areas:

  • Civil society, e.g. NGOs and volunteer organizations. Ia has worked as a facilitator, project coordinator and staff manager with organizational development, leadership training, co-creation and the role of civil society.

  • Ia facilitates workshops focusing on social innovation and co-creation involving multi-sector stakeholders. Ia also teaches social innovation to students of social work and at the Danish School og Media and Journalism.

  • Visual facilitation, mostly incorporating drawing into her work as a facilitator and trainer. In addition, Ia has taught basic graphic facilitation to more than 3,000 people in more than 100 workshops in the past 5 years.

With a background in anthropology and international studies, Ia has worked in a number of different NGOs in the U.S. and Denmark prior to establishing her own business in Copenhagen in 2015.

Ia speaks Danish and English as a bilingual.

Contact:
ia@overlap.dk
+4528880131

Visual Templates

Visual templates are drawings with blank spaces where there is room to write or draw. They can be a powerful tool for your own reflection, for group dialogues and even graphic recording for a whole room. They frame the discussion, create an overview and ensure focus. And they can be drawn and produced prior to a meeting or workshop. This leaves you free to teach or facilitate during the event.

Within a year of learning about graphic facilitation I started producing visual templates.

At the IFVP (International Forum fro Visual Practitioners) conference in 2019 I presented a workshop on how to plan and design your own visual templates that can be used if you facilitate a workshop or teach a class. Participants in the workshop received a hardcopy of a booklet that is a step-by-step guide to create a visual template.

I also presented the booklet when I conducted an online workshop in the IFVP Online Learning Series in 2020.