Looking for ways to spice up your meetings? Consider adding some visual skills to your palette! On December 5-6, 2012, I’ll be teaching The Artful Visual Facilitator - a fun, hands-on introduction to graphic recording and graphic facilitation. Why should you take this course? Well, if you’re a facilitator – or really, anyone who convenes meetings, dialogues, conferences and so [...]
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Last year the Delta School District underwent a district-wide visioning process, designed and facilitated by my friend and colleague Myriam Laberge. I was hired to create some visual templates for the schools to work with, and to graphically record the large group sessions. At the end of the process, the key themes were distilled from [...]
Major excitement! After I mapped Karen Armstrong’s talk in Vancouver I got a call from Kristin Miller, editor of the Charter for Compassion website in New York, saying she’d like to use my images on their site and write a little profile about me to go with them. Well, who’s going to say no to [...]
Karen Armstrong has been in Vancouver for much of the past two weeks, as a key figure at SFU’s 12 Days of Compassion. I’ve been a big fan of Karen Armstrong since I read her books “A History of God” and “The Gospel According to Woman” some years ago. And I was privileged to hear [...]
What you’re seeing above is a mural that was co-created over 3 days by Mariah Howard, Mary Corrigan and myself at a splendid event in July called the Mount Madonna Chautauqua. (Click on the image to see a larger version, and go here to see close-ups of different sections.) The Chautauqua is the brainchild of [...]
Research is definitively showing that visualization fosters knowledge-sharing in teams and dramatically improves the productivity of meetings. Hey, we knew that! But it’s nice to have hard evidence to back us up. Thank you to the University of St. Gallen in Lugano, Switzerland and Prof. Martin Eppler.
In my last post, I included 3 of the charts Mariah Howard & I did for the Connecting for Change event in September, and provided a link to the C4C website for the rest. I’ve decided to post the other 3 charts here … but you should still visit the C4C site for our little [...]
It’s a good thing I don’t try to make my living from blogging, otherwise I’d be broke! But never mind. I’ll just restyle myself as the Quarterly Blogger, and all will be well. It’s all in the framing, right? Well, lots of fun since the last time I posted. The Big News this fall was [...]
I love the word “stuff” – it just encompasses so many things! Once I met a person who had a business card whose tagline said, “We do stuff for folks”. I thought that was one of the best taglines I’d ever seen! Pretty much says it all, no? Anyway, here’s some more of my stuff. [...]
Summer in Vancouver, and the livin’ is easy – aaahhh! I don’t care what all those Canadian writers and composers say about “Winters R Us” – my seasons are spring and summer, and I come into bloom with the sun and warmth. Spring is also a time when everyone wants to get all their work [...]