Level 1- Fundamentals of Visual Facilitation for Everyone!
Overview
Did you know that humans retain only 15% of what we HEAR, but can recall 60% of what we SEE? Skillful facilitators use all six senses to stimulate individual and group engagement in a classroom or in a boardroom.
Facilitators who incorporate visual approaches report significantly increased participation in their sessions; Visual Facilitation helps participants achieve “big picture” thinking more easily, and it creates a visual record of analysis, ideas and agreements to serve as group memory.
Perhaps you’ve read David Sibbet’s Visual Meetings, Nancy Duarte’s Slideology, or Robert Horn’s Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. You may have even tried a few of Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin graphics yourself, but likely found it challenging to make the leap from reading to doing. If you are ready to dive into Visual Facilitation fully, this is the workshop for you!
Leanna Murphy uses a discovery-based learning approach for Visual Facilitation instruction: you will learn by doing. Leanna will interweave theory & concepts with demonstrations but you will spend 75% of your time at the easel, experimenting, creating, and trying out Visual Facilitation for yourself. Leanna will share best practices & examples, give you time to adapt ideas, and create opportunities for peer feedback and offer coaching suggestions.
Outcomes
On a practical level, you will:
Did you know that humans retain only 15% of what we HEAR, but can recall 60% of what we SEE? Skillful facilitators use all six senses to stimulate individual and group engagement in a classroom or in a boardroom.
Facilitators who incorporate visual approaches report significantly increased participation in their sessions; Visual Facilitation helps participants achieve “big picture” thinking more easily, and it creates a visual record of analysis, ideas and agreements to serve as group memory.
Perhaps you’ve read David Sibbet’s Visual Meetings, Nancy Duarte’s Slideology, or Robert Horn’s Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. You may have even tried a few of Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin graphics yourself, but likely found it challenging to make the leap from reading to doing. If you are ready to dive into Visual Facilitation fully, this is the workshop for you!
Leanna Murphy uses a discovery-based learning approach for Visual Facilitation instruction: you will learn by doing. Leanna will interweave theory & concepts with demonstrations but you will spend 75% of your time at the easel, experimenting, creating, and trying out Visual Facilitation for yourself. Leanna will share best practices & examples, give you time to adapt ideas, and create opportunities for peer feedback and offer coaching suggestions.
Outcomes
On a practical level, you will:
- learn practical lettering styles that you can adapt to fit your style
- add simple graphics for emphasis in ways that fit with the priority of communication
- build muscle memory using a visual vocabulary
- put all of the basics together in agendas, posters, lists, diagrams, templates and metaphors for your own visual facilitation practice.
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$450 including breakfast, lunch, snacks, workshop materials and visual facilitation kit.
Save $50 per workshop if you ALSO register for Level 2- At Ease with Visual Facilitation.
Save $50 per workshop if you ALSO register for Level 2- At Ease with Visual Facilitation.