Bridging Rural Homelessness and Well-Being Summit: Personal Reflections and Graphic Recording

Graphic recording takes me into some of the most amazing rooms. I’ll be forever grateful for the opportunities that this work affords me, for sure. What follows here are my personal takeaways, not to be confused with official report out. This week I got to be a willing listener to 140 or so people as…

Engaging Beyond Words

We’re gearing up to do something interesting and new. . . a one-day hybrid workshop about visual processes! Michelle Laurie is leading the charge, with Amanda Fenton and I in support. Amanda is going to take care of the online spaces, I’ll be bridging between in-person and online while Michelle leads us in the physical…

Exciting developments – graphic facilitation trainings are returning!

I’m so excited! Michelle Laurie has started the wheels turning towards a new RosViz graphic facilitation and visual processes training workshop. . .and I get to play, too! We’re working out the details behind the scenes right now, but we’ll put out a large scale announcement once there’s more to tell. Yay! I can’t wait…

Universal Experiences -and graphic recording

I had the distinct pleasure this past few weeks to do a variety of graphic recording work for a few different groups – the most recent was a group in Castlegar looking to improve the supports in their area for breastfeeding parents. I got to work with my frequent collaborator, Jane Green, who facilitated the…

Website woes – working out the kinks and fixing up the links

I’ve spent a little time with my website here today, updating it to better reflect what’s going on. There’s work to be done yet, but it’s getting closer. The new website should be more responsive to different devices (waving to people reading from their phones, or from their tablets). I work with WordPress these days….

Thank you for taking time to talk.

Thank you so much to all of you who wrote to me to talk about my last post.  It made me realize how much I’ve missed the blogging world of over a decade ago when we’d have real discussions in the comments sections and through private messaging. I’m endeavoring to breathe life back into my…

Graphic recording in Trail – some thoughts

I’ve been busy these last couple weeks with all kinds of things, but most notably, working with the Poverty Reduction Summit – Striving to Thriving in Trail. We had our first part of the Summit last week, and are looking forward to some real ‘feet on the ground’ action next week. I can only hope…

New Experiments – sharpening my saw

We had a 4 day weekend here recently – something that I don’t often allow myself to embrace fully. This huge luxury of free time! What would I do with it all? I rolled out a new 4′ X 6′ paper on the wall of my working space and started looking at the next 3…

A little time with KCDS – Graphic Recording

I’m a very lucky person. I got to spend the morning yesterday working with Gary Ockenden and the Kootenay Career Development Society as part of their strategic planning processes.     This graphic recording thing is always an interesting gig, really. I get to meet so many different people, see many different ways that groups interact…

Recent work

Two weeks ago today I returned from Northern BC, where I had another amazing opportunity to work with Shared Care. We were doing something called ‘Family Journey Mapping’. It’s a process in which an individual (or family/ies) has the opportunity to tell their story – how they have navigated a piece of their life, sometimes spanning…