Category: Training

Whew, busy week – four training days and a wedding … my feet hurt!  Hosted Meeting Graphics 101 on Wed and Thursday, followed by The Graphics Bootcamp on Friday and Saturday (then off to join the celebrations for Lisa and Gautaum’s wedding on Saturday night).  That was a lot of standing around in boots and then heels for these… Read more »

My trip to Santa Fe to present at the International Forum of Visual Practitioners is right around the corner.  I’m very excited to have been asked to come and speak to my colleagues from around the world who will be gathering for this cool event.  And I’m also very much looking forward to seeing Santa… Read more »

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of welcoming Yuko Matsumoto from Japan to my studio here in Victoria, British Columbia.  One of the benefits of having unique skills and being a teacher in such a rare field as graphic recording and graphic faciliation – is that I get to meet interesting people from all over… Read more »

[Additional Update (added Oct 12): As of today, there is one space left for someone who can take both courses … MG 101 and The Bootcamp). ] Just a note to let you know that my two fall public trainings on graphic recording and graphic facilitation, Meeting Graphics 101 and The Graphic Bootcamp are right around the corner (October… Read more »

Originally uploaded by graphiccoach   As this field of Visual Practitioners grows, I’m finding it increasingly necessary with potential clients and with folks who attend my trainings to begin our conversation with a definition of terms. What exactly is it that my client is wanting when they use the terms ‘graphic facilitation’ or ‘graphic recording’,… Read more »

About three or four years ago I wrote an article on the History and Evolution of the Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording Fields. In May, at the last Meeting Graphics 101 workshop, I finally got around to creating a visual to accompany the article.  It’s a large, 12 foot mural, the sketches out the main… Read more »

Besides my coaching and facilitation practices, about a third of my work these days is in training other professionals (trainers, consultants, facilitators, coaches, project managers, mediators, etc) on the basic graphic skills that can be used with groups and individuals.  You see, this graphic way of working is rare, and even more rare is finding someone… Read more »

Tomorrow I lead my Graphic Bootcamp here in Victoria, British Columbia.  Its an advance skill development and marketing / business development workshop for graphic recorders and graphic facilitators – people who want to further improve their ability to graphically record and facilitate business meetings, community events, conferences and the like.  Who want some help boosting… Read more »

At long last the Graphics Bootcamp is here! Advance training in the rare skills of Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation. One of the few places in the world (I’m not kidding!), where one can get personalized, mastermind-group type attention to build competency and confidence in these unique and effective group methods. I was lucky enough… Read more »

Talking of passing the baton (see previous post) … several of my ‘mentees’ are really pushing the envelope in terms of their graphic skills. Strategy consultant Doug T from Virginia is doing history and vision maps with his architecturial design firm clients – and using graphics to explain globalization/flatworld concepts in presentations. HR Coach Shannan… Read more »