This Thursday at Community Breakfast, we met Wioletta, who works with corporate communications and also hosts tarot workshops and readings through her Copenhagen studio, Third Place Copenhagen.
Wioletta came to Denmark from Poland eight years ago to do her master’s degree, with a background in science. Since then, her work has moved through biotech, tech, corporate communications, and now into a more creative and human field: using tarot as a tool for empathy, conversation, and connection.
But what stood out most was not the mystery of tarot. It was Wioletta’s thoughtful way of using images, archetypes, and curiosity to help people understand themselves and each other better.
From Science to Communication
Wioletta’s background is not what many people might expect from someone working with tarot.
She comes from science and has spent much of her career working with companies full of technical people, especially within biotech and tech. Through that work, she noticed something important: many people struggle with communication, networking, and building new connections.
For Wioletta, this opened a question.
What if words do not always have to be the first way we connect?
That question eventually became part of her work. By combining her communication background with her long-standing interest in tarot, astrology, and spiritual subjects, she began creating workshops where people could meet through something visual, neutral, and open to interpretation.
Tarot as a Conversation Tool
For many people, tarot is associated with fortune telling, prediction, or something mystical.
Wioletta works with that side too, but it is not the core of what she does.
In her workshops, tarot becomes a tool for reflection and communication. The cards are full of images, symbols, people, situations, and themes. Wioletta connects these to archetypes, which are universal patterns and qualities that people can recognise across cultures and backgrounds.
This makes the cards useful as a starting point for conversation.
Instead of asking people to immediately share something personal, the discussion can begin with an image. What do you see? What does it make you think of? Which card feels familiar? Which one feels completely different from you?
From there, people begin to explain, listen, ask questions, and understand each other from new angles.
Building Empathy and Confidence
One of the most interesting parts of Wioletta’s talk was how practical the workshops actually are.
In some sessions, people are asked to choose an image or archetype they feel connected to. Afterwards, they may be paired with someone who chose something very different. This creates a chance to practise understanding another perspective.
For companies, this can become a way to strengthen relationships, support networking, and help teams have conversations that feel different from the usual work setting.
Wioletta also explained how tarot can help people who find networking difficult.
The goal is not to give people the perfect thing to say. It is to help them become curious. To notice details. To ask better questions. To shift attention away from themselves and towards the person they are speaking with.
In that sense, tarot becomes a way to practise a very human skill: being present with another person.
Between Skepticism and Curiosity
Of course, tarot can also bring skepticism.
Wioletta spoke openly about this and shared that people who are skeptical in the beginning often become some of the most engaged participants by the end. Not necessarily because they suddenly become believers, but because they discover a new way to look, think, and talk.
That balance is part of what makes Wioletta’s work interesting.
She does not present tarot only as magic or prediction. She also presents it as a psychological and creative tool. A deck of 78 cards can become a mirror for reflection, a structure for conversation, or simply a playful way for people to spend meaningful time together.
And depending on the setting, the workshops can be light and fun, focused on self-development, or designed around confidence, empathy, and communication.
A Growing Practice
Since 2021, Wioletta has hosted monthly tarot workshops for people who want to learn, connect, and have more meaningful conversations.
She also works with companies and events, where tarot becomes a fresh and unexpected way to bring people together.
The business is still growing, and Wioletta shared that most of her clients come through recommendations. She is also exploring how the concept could scale, whether through more events, new formats, or future products.
For now, it is very much built around her own presence, knowledge, and ability to create a safe and curious space.
Why It Matters
Wioletta’s story was a reminder that communication does not always begin with the right words.
Sometimes it begins with an image, a question, a symbol, or a moment of curiosity.
It was also a reminder that meaningful connection can come from unexpected places. Between science and spirituality. Between corporate communication and tarot. Between skepticism and openness.
We are very happy to have Wioletta in the Republikken community and look forward to seeing how Third Place Copenhagen continues to grow.
Thank you for sharing your story, Wioletta, and for giving us a thoughtful, surprising, and inspiring look into tarot as a tool for empathy, communication, and human connection.