Last week’s graphic recording engagement in Vancouver is complete; the charts have been photographed, edited and sent to the client. I’m going to steal a few moments from my next project to reflect on my process.
The TrainerMarkers were very fun to use, especially the light grey. It’s fantastic for adding shading and dimension to things. [...]
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I just received my first shipment from Neuland North America – I must be a “real” graphic facilitator now, because I’ve got Neuland products! These are my business’ Christmas present to itself. Here’s what Santa got Directis:
BIKABLO!
Bikablo is a pocket-sized coil-bound book containing hundreds of icons for use on flip charts / murals, depicting soft [...]
Working in large format (e.g., on a large white board or piece of paper) is a very different feeling from working in a notebook or even on flipchart paper. I find that it elicits more creativity, more expansive thinking, and frees the “thinkers” (either the artist or the client group, in a graphic facilitation session) [...]
Last Thursday and Friday I was in Vancouver at UBC, attending the IAF Canada Tour Workshops. (IAF stands for International Association of Facilitators). Below the cut there are reviews of the workshops and scans of my graphic notes from the sessions. Both sets of graphic notes are merely the “highlights” of the workshop since much [...]
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Today I did a visual planning session with Jeff Ward, the creative and technical mind behind Animikii and YikeSite. We were mapping out a shift in marketing focus/positioning for YikeSite, from targeting individuals who want their own websites to targeting independent web designers/developers who need simple hosted CMS’s for their clients.
Jeff was running a stop-time [...]
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For those of you still a little curious / taken aback by this whole visual thinking, allow me to point you over to Sunni Brown’s excellent article, “Why bother with visual thinking.”
Some of the testimonials on that page made the phrase “See it to believe it” ring around in my brain. Graphically presenting your company [...]
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Over the last weekend I completed two strategic planning sessions with non-profit boards, the Family Violence Project and Intrepid Theatre. I have piles and piles of charts to put the finishing touches on, but before I do that I wanted to do some reflection on how these sessions went.
Yesterday morning, I worked with Paul and Sheila in a Visual Life Planning session at my office. Paul and Sheila are warm, loving people who have travelled far and wide, and each of them is committed to leading a fully evolved and self-actualized life. They’ve been looking for a way to pull together the various [...]
Last Monday I recorded the strategic planning retreat for the South Island Partnership, a collaborative effort between Camosun College and five school districts in the area. Their mandate is to develop and operate programs that help students transition between secondary and post-secondary training. The session was facilitated by Mitchell Temkin of Associatus Consulting. The South [...]
I’ve completed three graphic facilitation/recording engagements in the past two weeks, and my ears are starting to pop from the vertical gain on this learning curve. Along with the lessons learned in on-the-fly visual listening, I’m starting to develop quite the little collection of paraphernalia for photographing my charts. In the past month I’ve acquired [...]
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