On July 8, I co-facilitated a session at the Victoria Foundation with Marg Rose, Director of Community Initiatives with the Foundation. The attendees were a mix of community advisors (professionals who volunteer their services to charitable organizations) and agencies/organizations who have received service from a Community Advisor, as well as some folks from other Victoria [...]
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This afternoon I booked off a block of time to go to work on the charts from my graphic recording of the NEED Forum, last Monday (see also: my post about preparing for this event). My task today was to complete the charts and photograph them so the client can use the images in reports. [...]
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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David Cooperrider is one of the founders of the Appreciative Inquiry school of change, if that’s what I may call it. This morning he gave a conference call on MaestroConference to discuss where AI is going now. The major theme was that AI is moving towards empowering/enabling change “on the scale of the whole”. He [...]
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This morning I participated in a teleconference call hosted on Maestro Conference, a very nifty telephone and web technology that allows for very large-scale groups to come together for presentations and discussions. I’ll let you head on over to their website to check it out in detail, but in a nutshell you can use a [...]
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On Tuesday I led a brainstorming session for a group of store managers of a travel agency company. It was part of their monthly “team leaders” meeting, held at the area manager’s house. Here are the charts… this demonstrates how a simple graphic exercise can help a group with “divergent” work – coming up with [...]
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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 [...]
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This gigantic white foamcore board stuck to my office wall is a dominating feature of my workspace. From where I sit at my computer it is a constant looming presence, in a good way. It reminds me when I am working on day to day tasks that I can work in a visual mode whenever [...]
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It’s nice to get client testimonials like this! Our Board of Directors needed to get a firm plan to rebuild our organization after a major funding loss. Susan planned and led a strategic planning session using graphic facilitation. Her style of moderating gave us the opportunity we needed to discuss the concepts and vision at [...]
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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 [...]
