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…
Tag: workshops
Engaging Beyond Words – Online Workshop
Amanda, Michelle and I had a meeting yesterday and have opted to push our Hybrid workshop fully online! The good news for you is that we’ve extended the early bird pricing – we’re cooking up some serious fun! You can learn more and register at Michelle’s website. Can’t wait to see you! It’s going to…
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…
Games and Community
I get to do something pretty cool next week alongside some people who matter a lot to me. My dear friend’s daughter is the speaker for an upcoming Mir Peace Cafe session called “Building Empowered Community through Play”. Avery Alder is the speaker and we will have an opportunity to co-create our own ad-hoc game…
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…
Taking SPECTRUM to HICE
Well. This has been a bit of a whirlwind of a month! I’m so excited to be talking about this. We have been working quietly in preparation (with our fingers crossed that it would all come together) of this: My colleague Jane and I will have the opportunity to share the SPECTRUM course on behalf…
Two more energizers
Further to last post, I thought I could include a couple more ways to get a group moving: Silvia‘s energizer was fun and got us moving. I don’t know what to call it and so name it: Silvia’s energizer The group stands. Starting with one arm, shake it vigorously while counting to 16. Switch to…
Two energizer activities from Stories We Tell
While we were in Bernay-en-Ponthieu we did a variety of different energizer-style activities at different times to perk us up or shift the energy of the room. It’s high time I put some here, wouldn’t you say? The first one was offered up by Meriç: ‘The sun shines on…’ This game is very similar to…
Sound Story
A new experience for me in Bernay was creating stories that had no words or images in them. On day 4 of the workshop experience we listened to a traditional/historical story of the Bernay region, and without speaking, we took a piece of paper and each drew our favorite part of the story. Still without…
Bernay Stories
This was one of my favorite writing activities while we were working together in Stories We Tell with Nomadways. We were released into the community in small groups to explore and collect ideas and inspiration for 3 different types of stories. Our group worked together to find sounds and sights for each other’s stories, and…
Scavenger Hunt Story
We did this workshop in the afternoon of the first day in Stories We Tell with Nomadways. It was on the schedule as ‘team building’ – it was, and so much more. The charm of this was being in a country that was not my own, in a sweet and bucolic small town steeped in…
Writing From The Future
We did a writing exercise while in Bernay-en-Ponthieu with Nomadways in which used our imaginations to look back on our career. We imagined that we were writing an introduction to our last collection of short stories. You can read mine here. Writing From The Future Materials needed: paper, pens/pencils Time: 1 hour Participants: work individually…
Looking out / Looking in
We used this exercise with Nomadways to jump-start our reflective processes and get us in the learning/analyzing/critical thinking mindset. Looking out / Looking in: Materials needed: paper, pens Time: 1 hour with a large group. Final discussion time can be shorter with a smaller group. Participants: pairs, sitting facing each other with writing/drawing surface between…
Update from the bucket brigade…
I’ve been back in Canada a little over a week now, settling in to regular life again with a few bumps along the way – the biggest one being that my basement has been taking on water for 8 days now. Crazy. I’ve got a sump-pump running down there to keep things as dry as…