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. [...]
I’m going to be doing graphic recording for a Youth Suicide Prevention Community Forum, put on by NEED Crisis Line and UVic’s School of Child and Youth Care tonight. I thought I’d share my preparation process as a blog post, and then I can share the post-event process and the images. Doing this blog post [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 received an invitation to attend a Sales and Marketing Bootcamp put on by Geoff Affleck of Leader Consulting. Rather than using their prepared workbook for participants, I brought along a sketchbook and a “mini-recorder” kit: a set of 12 kids felt pens and 10 Prang chalk crayons. I sat in the front row so [...]
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