What does bikablo® mean?

Today I would like to talk about the topic that I get asked quite regularly and it's what does bikablo® mean. Here I want to demystify it and want to explain what the word bikablo® actually means. So come along on a trip, back in history.

To understand what bikablo® means we need to go back almost 10 years. When a company -- actually a consultancy from Cologne stated their first product and this company was called, it's still around, of course, Kommunikationslotsen, it's quite hard to pronounce I know. It means actually communication pilot.

So it's a consultancy that works on a holistically approach to help companies to change, to go through change phases. The Kommunikationslotsen is one of the first companies in Germany who actually started with visual facilitation and they created a product which is like a pad of picture cards.

Let's write that down. So they built this product which was like a visual dictionary and it was basically a collection of picture cards. Those picture cards were mounted together like you see here to a block. Have a look.

So it looks like this and you can still order it, and it's still very valid because pictures don’t change so much. Like, you have a good dictionary in there. Right, and if you see that picture card pad, if we underline the first two letters here you would come up with a funny English term, it would be pi-ca-pa.

Okay, but the words in German they start with "bild" for pictures and cards we have "karte" and for pad we have the word "block", which is similar to an English word.

So picture card block was actually here the first two letters, and that's how the word bikablo® came up as the brand based on the first product they created. Right, but today bikablo® is much more than just this one visual dictionary.

Just recently we opened up the bikablo® academy, which is the worldwide head organisation for the bikablo® trainings. The bikablo® academy provides a training program which is quite different to many others.

We provide a very systematical approach to drawing. So you don't need to draw a straight line to come to the training. We actually teach you how to hold the pen, how to draw a straight line without a ruler and just get this out of the pen. First thing in the morning we do together. All right. So let's capture that.

The bikablo technique provides a systematical approach to drawing
We provide a systematical approach to drawing, and if you like, there is an early bird available and you can join in either in Sydney or Melbourne. There is London coming up and everywhere in the German-speaking areas as well.

So have a look at the website, bikablo.com or book the early bird on my website marcelvanhove.com.

Thank you very much for watching. I hope I see you next time in one of the trainings in Sydney or Melbourne coming up and have a great day.

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