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Breakout Sessions

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Beyond the Basics of Lettering

Heather Martinez

In addition to learning tips that will boost your self-confidence and expand your lettering vocabulary, we will build on your already awesome ability to write fast, to writing consistently in your unique style.

We will explore:

  • The three levels of handwriting/lettering
  • Skeleton letters and foundational shapes (that you will use to recognize and build your own style)
  • Various styles of lettering for content capture, titles/sub-topics, and studio applications

We will make time to geek out on lettering beyond the wall to talk about digital applications and hand-lettering projects that will round out your portfolio which you can leverage to attract new types of work.

You will walk away with lettering tools and resources to inspire you in your lettering journey.

 

You are Your Business: How to Start Your Own Brand in 3 Steps

Jose Luis Anzizar

You are an awesome Visual Practitioner  and you are ready to start your own business, and what do you do? Is it enough with a logo and a website? What else should you consider to get your business started?

This workshop will explore the three pillars of your business:

  • the brand under which you will operate
  • the customer segments you are aiming to prospect
  • the value proposition you will offer.

For each pillar we will use a visual template to consider everything you need to explore. Additionally, each pillar will provide concrete tools to use right away, for instance: What is my mission? What problems do my customers have? How could I help solving them?  This highly visual,  practical and down to earth workshop  will help you start designing and implementing a successful business today!

 

Totes Sketchnotes

Bug Fawcett

Designed for those new to the field , this session will fire up your fingertips and have you sketchnoting like a pro!

We will cover:

  • Where and when to use sketchnoting & Visual thinking
  • The tools, techniques & hot drawing tips
  • Speedy ways to build up your visual vocab
  • How to synthesize and structure your thoughts
  • "Putting it all Together" - hands on practice
  • "Beyond the book" - how to get your Sketchnotes 'out there' (to a wider audience) as well as options for selling your Sketchnotes (yes, you heard right!)

You will leave this session armed with the tools and bursting with inspiration  to start visually capturing your world in an engaging and memorable way!

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Thinking Visually When it’s Thorny: Drawing Out Ideas When Situations are Inappropriate, Politically Dicey, and/or Outside our Own Cultural Lenses

Charlotte Young

Solving today’s intricate, multi-faceted problems requires methods and techniques that go beyond well-established, traditional thinking and discussion. As visual practitioners, we appreciate the value of graphic recording and visual rendering. However, what happens when one is visually rendering more than just complex information. Perhaps the information is sexually explicit, or politically inappropriate or outside of one’s own cultural sensitivity. How does one portray those types of images in ways that relate to participants? What if the mural is being created after-the-fact of a highly emotionally charged event – how does one capture the spirit of the session? In this session, we will share stories, work in small groups and, of course, draw out ideas to wrestle with these challenging situations.

 

Going Inside: Making the Choice to Go from External Consultant to Internal Graphic Facilitator

Jeannel King

What's not to love about your business as an external visual practitioner? You get to work on awesome projects of your choosing, your way. . . and we all know you have the best boss in the world (you!). So why would ANYONE choose to trade their external practice for becoming an internal facilitator for a company?! Whether you’re just curious or looking to make a similar transition, join us for a fascinating conversation and learn from real-world stories and experiences of professionals who are bringing the value of graphic facilitation inside as recognized (and hired) positions in business teams.

Random factoids about Jeannel:

  • Director of Business Development Communications and Strategy with McCarthy Holdings, Inc.
  • Owner and founder of Big Picture Solutions
  • Speaker and author of Draw Forth and What You Draw is Good Enough
  • The original Stick Figure Strategist
  • Past president of the IFVP
  • Native Californian
  • The Queen of What You Draw is Good Enough
  • Lives her life by four rules: Be positive, send love, have fun, kick ass.
  • Lives in San Diego with her guy and her kitten.
  • Is totally a naturally curly redhead.

 

How to USE Your Charts After A Visual Meeting – Smart, Creative Answers to the Question Everyone Asks!

Lisa Arora

“What should we do with our charts afterwards?” That is the million-dollar question among practitioners in the field of visual facilitation, and from clients! We know that the answer is NOT, “Roll them up and stick them on the shelf.” However, when the question is asked, many of us scratch our head, and our ideas stop short at one or two suggestions.

Come to this session to learn a strategic approach for helping clients find uniquely suited ways to USE their charts after a visual meeting to support objectives. With strategy, creativity and inspiration from colleagues, you’ll leave ready to help your clients leverage the value of working with you long after a meeting.

Participants will receive a free copy of the eGuide, How to USE Your Charts After a Visual Meeting.

About Lisa

Lisa Arora is Principal of Get The Picture, a leading firm devoted to bringing business strategy and organizational change meetings to life using innovative, interactive graphic facilitation and graphic recording methods. The rich, engaging visual meeting experiences she provides result in highly productive dialogue, shared understanding, alignment and high-quality decisions. With over 15 years in education, workplace training and facilitation, designing effective meeting process is second nature to Lisa. Her visual meeting strategies have helped executives in organizations all over the world across all industries tackle deep-rooted and emerging issues. Her methods boost participation, foster new insights and yes, believe it or not…make some of the most serious and important conversations shaping our world today FUN.

Lisa and her team also train workplace teams and individuals to use these powerful visual facilitation and communications methods in their own work processes. Learn more about live graphics and what visual thinking can do for your group at www.GetThePicture.ca.

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An Introduction to Organization Development and Visual Practice: Connecting To Rich Models

Philip Bakelaar

When we use visual practice in organizational work, what are we doing? In this session we will explore a variety of ways that organizational theorists explain what happens in change and intervention efforts. Looking at different models and frameworks allows us to have rich sources of insights to draw from in our work. We will spend time looking at history, theory and theorists, models, and doing work together to explore how different models provide new perspectives.

Philip Bakelaar has been an adjunct professor at Montclair State University since 1992 where he teaches in the School of Communication and Media. His PhD is from Temple University in Rhetoric and Communication. His teaching includes courses on communication theory, public speaking, rhetorical theory, conflict management, systems thinking and interpersonal communication. Most recently his teaching has focused on organizational and public relations, organizational consulting, and research methods. He has trained with the Grove and also participated in the graphic recording team at the NCDD Conference. Over the years he has served on many nonprofit community boards at the local, regional, national and international levels. He is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America and has pastored congregations since 1985. He and his wife Carol have three adult children, and live in South Jersey with their rescue pit, Petey.

 

Core Facilitator Skills: Using The 3 Primary Perspectives to Improve Communication and Listening

Rebecca Colwell & Lauren Tenney

In this breakout session, you will learn the 3 Primary Perspectives that shape our communications at all times. You will practice orienting and listening from each of the 3 Primary Perspectives, which will expand your skills as a facilitator and increase your ability to create more flex and flow in your conversations. You will practice naming and reflecting—two key skills for embodied listening.

  • Learn which of the 3 Perspectives you favor and how to grow in all three
  • Learn how all 3 Primary Perspectives shape communication
  • Learn how to use them (and other core skills) to enliven your group conversations and be more masterful

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Learn the Art & Science of Finding Your Ideal Clients

Jill Greenbaum

Join this session to dive into the work and play of crafting the conversation that will have just-the-right clients asking to work with you. Learn the model, see how it works through short real-life case studies, then transfer that learning to your unique situation. Come prepared to articulate what you do, how you do it, and how clients can invest in your services. We will use that foundation to develop your bespoke conversation. You will gain a new perspective on your business, use a simple and successful approach for choosing your ideal clients, and be ready to offer your first Strategy Session.

Watch a video introduction here!

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Co-Creation! – Steps into intuitive team building and becoming a purpose-driven organization

Mathias Weitbrecht and Malte von Tiesenhausen

Working as a team is fun! And it gives so much more value to clients and impact to your work as a visual practitioner.

Mathias Weitbrecht and Malte von Tiesenhausen from VISUAL FACILITATORS (Germany) tell about their experience in building a 20+ people associated team, grounded strongly on vision, intuition, purpose and the individual skills of its members.

How can you not only work but also develop together? How does everybody manage to find his or her most desired field of activity? How do you delegate and ensure that things will be done? How do we become a 'We-brand’? How do we lead with self-organization and purpose?

Let’s share the space and find out, how purposeful co-creation can not only support you but the whole field!

www.visualfacilitators.com

 

Your Money Mindset: Secrets + Tips to Clear Your Money Blocks and Earn Your Worth

Michelle Walker

Do you struggle with the money side of your business? Do you feel awkward in charging what you know your services are worth? Do you want to shift out of struggle into a sense of EASE and FLOW around your finances. Yes? Then this is the workshop for you! In this session, Michelle Walker will share with you the secrets and tips to get clear on the mindset you need around money to thrive and grow – material she normally only teaches in her coaching programs. You will explore old patterns of money programming that dictate ‘set points’ in your income and the biggest mistakes that might be holding you (and your business) back. You will discover the Mind/Body/Money connection and her ‘go-to’ tool for clearing money blocks so you can grow and expand the impact of your work.

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