Last month I had the pleasure of co-graphic-recording with the amazing Mariah Howard at the ASI Agriculture Sustainability Symposium in Davis, California. When Tom said I could bring in a second person, I said “A Graphic Recorder!” 8221; I had done some recording as I facilitated last year, but this time the content would be so dense and coming so fast, there was no way I could do I have some of the pictures here and am attempting a slideshow embed below!

Tags: graphic facilitation northernvoice09 visual thinking event Nice photos Derek, aka,  Penmachine !You You really captured the energy and the vibrancy of the people and the beautiful images people made together today at Northern Voice. Yes we CAN draw!

Today I put up a page on the workshops I’ve been doing, as well as outing my own graphic practices page . Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording and facilitation. Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW. After doing it on the side, teaching it to others, I realized it was time to declare this part of my practice on my website.

It was in “helping” “save” the community after Howard lost funding that I had my first big online facilitation failure. It was my urgency to figure this out that set me on my professional path as a practitioner and learner about online facilitation. This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

Ever since I was turned on to this thing called “Graphic Recording” or “ Graphic Facilitation ” my work has changed. When I facilitate F2F I have my paper, pens and chalk and try at some point to use visuals to focus, capture or catalyze what is going on in the room. graphic recording with I have amazed myself at what I have been able to produce - and I make that same claim “I don’t know how to draw!”

Recently she posted about a facilitation challenge that I related to: going to a gathering venue and not being allowed to post things on the way. As I’m fully into flip charts and graphic recording/facilitation, I always ask in advance if I can put stuff on the wall, and if not, I arrange for pin boards or some alternative. The “problem” isn’t just the facilitators’. I love reading Gillian Martin Mehers’s blog, You Learn Something New Every Day . Now there is my kind of person!

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