The Artful Visual Facilitator
Bringing Meeting Results to Life with Graphics
Want to make your meetings more impactful?
Looking for effective facilitation process templates?
Keen to make group work more visible?
Description
The Artful Visual Facilitator is a fun, easy, hands-on introductory program on using basic visuals, graphics and images in your facilitation to encourage interactive and productive meetings. Designed to build confidence in incorporating graphics and visuals into the meetings you facilitate, the session is chock-full of opportunities to put your knowledge into practice.
"Loved Avril's style. The course was fun, informative and skill-building, and very realistic! I truly enjoyed her approach and dedication to ensuring participants gained knowledge and practice in adding visuals and graphics. Well done!" -- Lisa Homer, December 2010 Participant
Learning Objectives
In this interactive two-day course led by graphic recorder Avril Orloff, you will learn the basics of graphic language and its potential to enhance your facilitation effectiveness. You will:
- Understand the core principles of visual thinking and of visual learners and participants
- Acquire basic techniques for drawing simple shapes, icons and people
- Learn the effective use of colour and graphic metaphors
- Translate abstract concepts into concrete images
- Walk away with your own inventory of ready-made graphics
- Acquire a dashboard of standard formats for a variety of facilitation processes
- Create illustrative posters and charts for standard meeting visuals like agendas, norms, and group instructions
- Capture "live" meeting results such as lists, brainstorming and action plans in more memorable ways, with powerful titles and meaningful conceptual images
- Put it all together to create templates for different meeting outcomes
Read more about benefits of graphics and visuals...
Ideal for:
This program is for group facilitators interested in enhancing their skill and effectiveness by developing a repertoire of useful images, icons, lettering conventions, visual metaphors and much more! Perfect for anyone wishing to learn the essentials of graphic recording. Drawing experience is not required.
"Participants receive a great understanding of what facilitation is and lots of opportunities for hands-on experience. I am leaving excited about my next opportunity to try my new skills.'
- TL, The Confident Facilitator
Our Courses
- The Confident Facilitator: Essential Facilitation Skills - Guiding Groups / Effective Meetings more...
- The Confident Facilitator Methods: Applying the Core Facilitation Tools more...
- The Facilitative Instructor: Best Facilitative Practices for Active Learning more...
- The Strategic Facilitator: Aligning Around Shared Vision and Plans more...