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- [Home](https://deepcurrents.co/) - WELCOME TO DEEP CURRENTS Navigate by Design See Clearly. Move Purposefully. Create Meaningful Impact. Welcome to Deep Currents Deep Currents Studio partners with mission-driven individuals and organizations to navigate complex challenges. Using human-centered design, systems thinking, and visual facilitation, we make the invisible visible - uncovering patterns, surfacing constraints, revealing possibilities - so you can
- [Ecocycle Planning Workshop Series](https://deepcurrents.co/ecocycle-planning-workshop-series/) - Ecocycle Planning: A 12 Month Exploratory Workshop Series Register Now What if... We decided to dive deeply into one model? Use it, play with it, explore it, and commit to it for one year. What becomes possible?I recently hosted a workshop on activating change using the Ecocycle Planning model as the orienting structure. Within 75
- [Case Studies](https://deepcurrents.co/case-studies/) - Case Studies NASAA 2025 Executive Forum Challenge: Facilitation & Sense Making Capabilities Applied: Visual Facilitation and Harvesting, Collaborative Design, Human Centered Design Learn more Royal Free Hospital of London Challenge: Clarity & Sense Making, Visual Communication Capabilities Applied: Sense Making, Strategic Illustration, Collaborative Design & Problem Solving Learn more
- [Heartwood Commons](https://deepcurrents.co/heartwood-commons/) - CASE STUDY HEARTWOOD COMMONS FACILITATION The Challenge When Washington County converted the former Aloha Inn & Suites hotel into permanent supportive housing, the building was already occupied. Residents were living there as the county completed its transition from bridge shelter to permanent housing and the building still needed a name.County staff wanted something beyond the
- [About](https://deepcurrents.co/about/) - About Jessica Jessica Riehl is an intrepid guide and curious explorer who journeys alongside mission-driven organizations through familiar yet ever-changing waters. Through Deep Current Studio, she helps teams discover what lies beneath the surface; uncovering hidden patterns, revealing unseen constraints, and charting courses through complexity together. Like the ocean itself, organizational challenges shift with seasons,
- [Gallery](https://deepcurrents.co/gallery/) - Gallery Examples of digital and live graphic recording and journey maps.
- [Services](https://deepcurrents.co/services/) - Featured Services Systems Thinking For Complex ChallengesA 3-hour collaborative workshop where we examine a problem, challenge, idea, or project through three different systems thinking models. By viewing challenges from multiple angles, teams gain clarity on root causes, hidden dynamics, and leverage points for change. Perfect for when you're stuck, overwhelmed, or know the obvious solutions
- [Ecocycle Feedback](https://deepcurrents.co/ecocycle-feedback/) - Ecocycle Planning Workshop Series Feedback Form The purpose of this form is to provide feedback to Deep Currents Studio. Your insights will help me talk about the work more broadly. Please let me know if you have any questions.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete
- [Ecocycle Registration](https://deepcurrents.co/ecocycle-registration/) - Ecocycle Planning Series Registration Please fill out the following form to register for this series. Drop-in registrations are for one-time participation and you will be signed up for the upcoming month’s workshop. After clicking send, you will be redirected to a payment page. If you do not wish to make a contribution, please skip the
- [NASAA Executive Forum](https://deepcurrents.co/nasaa-executive-forum/) - CASE STUDY NASAA 2025 Executive Forum FACILITATION The Challenge The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) convenes state and jurisdictional arts agency leaders to learn from one another, share ideas, and strengthen the field. The 2025 Executive Forum brought together executive and deputy/assistant directors from across the country during a particularly critical moment—a time
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- [Capabilities](https://deepcurrents.co/capabilities/) - Challenges We Can Help With... Organizational Health & Design Systems and structures no longer work as intended or new ones are needed. Strategic Alignment & Planning Misaligned priorities and plans that do not translate to action. Building Capacity A lack of tools, knowledge, and skills to create meaningful impact. Clarity & Sense Making Unable to
- [Royal Free](https://deepcurrents.co/royal-free/) - CASE STUDY ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL OF LONDON STRATEGIC ILLUSTRATION The Challenge At the end of the first wave of the COVID pandemic, the Royal Free Hospital debriefed around one hundred leaders, from ward sisters through to senior executives and clinical leaders, on their experiences during the first four months of COVID. They asked Human Systems
- [New Mexico Center for Public Health](https://deepcurrents.co/new-mexico-center-for-public-health/) - CASE STUDY NEW MEXICO CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIC ILLUSTRATION The Challenge The Center for Health Innovation in Public Health Institute of New Mexico needed to understand and map behavioral health services across the state. They were conducting focus groups, interviews, and community meetings to gather insights for a legislative report. They requested visual support
- [Contact](https://deepcurrents.co/contact/) - Get in touch Your Name* Your Email* Message* Send For all inquiries, please feel free to reach out at: jess@jessicariehl.com
- [Government Joy Network](https://deepcurrents.co/government-joy-network/) - CASE STUDY Government Performance Consortium HARVESTING & COLLABORATIVE DESIGN The Challenge The Government Performance Consortium (originally the Government Joy Network) was conducting a series of state-level workshops for government workers—building capacity through liberating structures training, lean methodologies, collaborative practices, and community praxis. They needed to capture and synthesize learning across multiple two-day workshops, then make
- [Concepts in Community Living](https://deepcurrents.co/concepts-in-community-living/) - CASE STUDY CONCEPTS IN COMMUNITY LIVING STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT & CLARITY | ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The Challenge Concepts in Community Living (CCL) is an innovative senior living organization that created the first assisted living model in the United States. They were navigating multiple challenges: onboarding and retaining staff across homes statewide, communication gaps between home office and
- [Career College Collaborative](https://deepcurrents.co/career-college-collaborative/) - CASE STUDY CAREER COLLEGE COLLABORATIVE COLLABORATIVE DESIGN & PROBLEM SOLVING The Challenge Career and college counselors across Oregon faced a significant problem: they lacked cohesive, consistent information about the 16 career clusters designated by the Career and Technical Institute. Career pathway information was fragmented across multiple sources, making it difficult for counselors to guide students
- [Reasonable Accommodations](https://deepcurrents.co/reasonable-accommodations/) - CASE STUDY Dept of Veterans Affairs HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN The Challenge Health profession trainees (HPTs) with disabilities seeking reasonable accommodations at the VA were navigating a confusing and often frustrating process. The Department of Veterans Affairs needed to understand the actual experience—not the documented process, but what trainees and their supervisors were really going through—so
- [Clackamas County Early Learning Hub](https://deepcurrents.co/clackamas-county-early-learning-hub/) - CASE STUDY CLACKAMAS COUNTY EARLY LEARNING HUB STRATEGIC CLARITY & ALIGNMENT The Challenge The Clackamas County Early Learning Hub’s Governing Council was entering a new two-year funding cycle (biennium) and needed to pause and assess: Were their vision and mission still relevant? What priorities should guide the next phase of work? How could they work
- [Art of Hosting](https://deepcurrents.co/art-of-hosting/) - CASE STUDY ART OF HOSTING PROGRAM DESIGN & CAPACITY BUILDING The Challenge After attending the Authentic Leadership in Action conference—a five-day experience that was the most engaged, conversational, artistic, and embodied conference ever encountered which utilized the Art of Hosting methodologies. The search began for who was practicing Art of Hosting methodologies in Portland, Oregon.
- [College Housing Northwest](https://deepcurrents.co/college-housing-northwest/) - CASE STUDY COLLEGE HOUSING NORTHWEST ORGANIZATIONAL & COLLABORATIVE DESIGN The Challenge College Housing Northwest, a student housing organization, needed to strengthen multiple aspects of their operations: marketing that resonated with students, board-staff alignment, operational clarity around roles and responsibilities, facilitating organizational conversations, building capacity for staff, and strategic planning that could adapt to rapidly changing
- [Oregon Department of Agriculture](https://deepcurrents.co/oregon-department-of-agriculture/) - CASE STUDY OREGON DEPT OF AGRICULTURE COLLABORATIVE DESIGN The Challenge The Oregon Department of Agriculture faced urgent invasive species threats—first Asian Gypsy Moth, then Japanese Beetle in the Portland Metro area – that required eradication to protect Oregon’s ecosystem and agricultural production. The challenge wasn’t just ecological; it was communicational. Without effective community engagement, court
- [Systems Scribing](https://deepcurrents.co/systems-scribing/) - CASE STUDY DRAWING SYSTEMS | SYSTEMS SCRIBING COLLABORATIVE DESIGN & PROGRAM DESIGN The Challenge While in graduate school, a gap became clear: drawing systems are incredibly hard. Drawing complex systems in real-time during conversations was complicated and challenging. Additionally, as knowledge of graphic recording increased, it was clear no methodology existed for graphic recorders to

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- [About Us](https://deepcurrents.co/?elementor_library=about-us-3) - About Jessica Jessica Riehl is an intrepid guide and curious explorer who journeys alongside mission-driven organizations through familiar yet ever-changing waters. Through Deep Current Studio, she helps teams discover what lies beneath the surface—uncovering hidden patterns, revealing unseen constraints, and charting courses through complexity together. Like the ocean itself, organizational challenges shift with seasons, currents,
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