The 2004 Visual Practitioner Conference is offers three ways for you to engage, share, learn, and relax aka Serious Play. Mix and match the levels of play to meet your interests and needs. Self-Direction is the key to a rich conference experience. Come prepared to offer something to others AND to choose from what others offer.

The "My Favorites" Library replaces the bookstore this year. Participants are asked to bring one book which they would highly recommend or feel has really had an impact or usefulness to their work. Yes, you can bring more than one! A booklist will be compiled and made available after the conference.

Graphic Recording - for practice, demonstration, and website documenation - will occur for all sessions where there is a volunteer! Bring your recording kit, and come play on the walls.

Come Play CD with Jim Channon
Watch your mail box the week of September 27 for Jim Channon's auditory start to our gathering. Throughout this fifteen minute audio over music story we will experience life as a new recorder, see people come to life when their ideas are recognized, and will be asked to sharpen our intentions for a meeting in the dunes among dear friends and allies.

Drawing on Improv
Led by Theatresports coach, Brad Cooreman (with assistance from Emily Shepard)
Join us to explore the creative, spontaineous side of our work as we seriously play with Improve Theater techniques. Gain insights into group dynamics, individual motives, and your own creative process. Theater games will be introduced and played by volunteers. Theories, ideas and relevancy will flow from playing the games, observing others in the games, and reflecting on our personal experience as visual practitioners.

Evening Dialogue with David Sibbet
David will explore his experiences in recent years with dialogic approaches, and how that has shaped his thinking and work.

• offer a session
• attend one of the organized sessions (see agenda and descriptions)
• opt out and have your own Free Play

To the degree we can via the list serve, Open Play sessions will be announced and formed throughout the month of September. Sessions will also be offered spontaineously at the Conference. Look for the Open Play announcement wall on site.

Consider offering something yourself!

Play outside the box! All ideas for an Open Play session all welcome. You need not be an expert or a seasoned visual practitioner to host or lead an Open Play session. Your session can be planned in advance, or completely spontaineous. It can be as simple as a "walk and talk" on the beach with a specific focus question or sharing a recent project. Speak with Emcee's Tom and Emily to announce a session, or post it on the board in our meeting room.

OPEN PLAY Organized Sessions

Friday Afternoon

• Newbie Burning Q's (led by Leslie Salmon-Zhu) Explore the basics and the burning questions about graphic recording as a field.
• Oldies Burning Q's. For those new who have been around a few years, what is currently on your mind?

Saturday Morning

• The Business Aspects of Graphic Recording (led by Michelle Boos Stone). How and what to charge based on experience, how to manage your finances, how to get paid, how to market yourself, keeping your invoice and accounting records, confidentiality and contractual agreements.
• Watercolor (hosted by Jennifer Landau). Work with watercolor, as well as watercolor pencil and crayons. Techniques will be shared as needed, but mainly this will be creative, restorative time in nature or while listening to other sessions. Some supplies and resources books will be available; bring your own as well.
• Roles & Relationships in Graphic Recording and Facilitation (led by Tom Benthin). We will be looking at the perspective and skills of the facilitator and the recorder, and how they interact.

Saturday Afternoon

• Visual Learning (led by Christine Valenza and Tom Benthin). How is it that we learn and think, and what does it have to do with our work….
• Crosscultural Facilitation ( led by Gabriela Melano). ? Explore the experience and considerations needed when facilitating in a cultural setting or language which is not your own, or mixes people of diverse cultures.

Sunday Morning

• Graphic Recording and Info Design: Challenges from Tufte (led by Tom Benthin). An overview of Tufte concepts and principles, and their significance to our work. This session builds on various conversations in the community, including the IFVP list serve.

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