Category: Training

Well, its October so we are thick into training season.  As this is the last year that I’m offering public and private training in the handy, fun and productive skills of graphic recording and graphic facilitation — my schedule is busy, busy, busy with folks getting in while they still can. Cynthia Miller made the… Read more »

Question: This is my first visit to your website. I am a certified professional facilitator (CPF) through IAF and would love to really get good at graphic facilitation. I’m a bit confused. Are you no longer doing graphic skills training, after 2008? Answer: Hi Karen. You aren’t confused at all – in fact, you are… Read more »

Whew. Last week was a whirlwind with the hosting of my graphics skill trainings: Meeting Graphics 101 (level 1) and The Graphic Bootcamp (level 2). We had a fantastic SOLD OUT group with attendees traveling from across the U.S. and Canada and from as far away as the U.K. and Australia! All women this time,… Read more »

Spent a very pleasant day last Friday with six members of the Heritage Branch / Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the Arts.  They commissioned me to do a private in-house training for them … an abbreviated one-day version of my Meeting Graphics 101 workshop.  We covered as much of the basics as we could in… Read more »

In addition to my coaching practice as The SHIFT-IT Coach, I am also a teacher of Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording (skills that I picked up during my consulting career down in the States). One of the pleasures of being a teacher is seeing your students really integrate and run with the skills you teach… Read more »

I’m proud as can be of my students from last fall’s graphic trainings. Susanne Hoogwater from Denver just sent our cohort this note and attached graphic to share her progress in using her skills. Great looking chart Suzanne and thanks for the resource for paper and other supplies! Hi Christina & crew, Just a quick… Read more »

It’s a brand new year.  And in January, the news media trots out the different experts to talk about goals, aspirations and new year resolutions.  I totally believe in the ability of people to change their lives (if I didn’t … it really wouldn’t sense for me to be called The SHIFT-IT Coach now would… Read more »

Here’s another interesting tidbit for some of you … My workshop series on Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation: Meeting Graphics 101 and The Graphics Bootcamp – always attracts REALLY great people. From varied backgrounds and walks of life. Last post I shared some exciting developments from Julie Stuart of Making Ideas Visible in Atlanta. Today… Read more »

Its been a few weeks since my last series of Graphic Recording / Graphic Facilitation trainings. News is starting to pour in from the learners about how they are applying their new and improved skills. This just in from Graphic Recorder, Julie Stuart in Atlanta, Georgia. Julie’s got her sights fixed on developing a graphic… Read more »

The Grove’s Strategic Visioning Process is one of my favorite graphic-related resources (I’ve lead sessions and retreats using this methodology since I was employed by The Grove Consultants Int’l  back in the mid 90s).  I touch on it in my own trainings – however I direct my mentees to go to Grove directly if they… Read more »