Every so often a client will tell me about a bad graphic recording experience: it wasn’t readable or it didn’t make sense to them, so they didn’t see the value. It doesn’t need to be this way! Clients, participants and graphic recorders all need great layouts to provide a flow of information, elevate decisions, and … Read more Graphic Recording: free sample layouts and planning for success
A Free Visual Planning Tool Need to make a decision, a change, or reach a goal? Don’t feel stuck! Grab a pen and this What, So What, Now What planning exercise to bring new perspectives. This is a visual planning tool for many seasons, featuring cedar, cranberry, hellebore, salal and sunflowers. Instructions Write down your … Read more Free Visual Planning Tool for all Seasons – What, So What, Now What and Graphic Facilitation
I was a student in a multi-day online courses recently, and I noticed that I hadn’t said anything out loud in front of the full group by the end of Day 1. So it was much harder for me to speak up by Day 2. Wait, suddenly I was that student who hadn’t spoken up … Read more 15 ways to increase participation online – free resource
Graphic Recording and Group Work Go Together Are you planning a highly participatory meeting with lots of small group work, and wondering how a graphic recorder could work in this setup? Need an easy-to-read, and visually appealing, way of theming and synthesizing many small group discussions? Unsure if this meeting should be online or in … Read more Graphic Recording and Group Work Go Together: Free Facilitation Agenda
Next Generation Meetings: 8 Wise Practices and Creative Tools Here’s my webinar for Tech Soup Canada: Improve online gatherings and foster connection. Click below for a cheat sheet to download for your phone, with the 8 Wise Practices and Creative Tools I use most. This far into a pandemic, we’ve all changed our perspectives on … Read more A new, free facilitation resource for creative meetings in 2022
I got an email this week that gave me goosebumps. My graphic recordings were part of a final report, and it turns out that when the Big Decision Maker saw the images, she was moved to tears – saying she could “see” the voices in the meeting talking about the impact their sector is making. Yes! … Read more Starting Your Graphic Recorder Career: first projects and wise practices
Need a visual way to find your team’s superpowers? Use this free graphic facilitation poster to engage your group in a fun, and meaningful activity. Leadership and Team Superpowers At the core, it’s two key questions: what’s your Superpower? what’s your Kryptonite? (aka, what stops your superpower?) Graphic Facilitation poster – a free download If … Read more What are your Team Superpowers? Free Superhero graphic recording for you to use
I made this Creativity Planner for my Creative Mornings Vancouver talk and want to share it with you. This free, visual template can help you with creative goal setting. Because let me guess — you’re fantastic at brainstorming for your clients, friends, and others. But when it’s time for you to focus on your goals, you find … Read more A free Creative Planning visual template for you
What do we get when we combine text and drawing … and learning? Sketchnotes! I recently gave a webinar for Wacom Canada called Drawing on the Right Side of Learning: Sketchnoting, Visual Thinking and Making Learning Connect, and here’s free resources for educators from that talk: webinar recording what’s a sketchnote? a free sketchnote template … Read more How to sketchnote – Free template and Wacom Canada webinar
Are you wondering how to edit paper-based graphic recording posters into digital files? You’re not alone. It’s very important that we provide files to our clients in a useful way, like JPG and PDF. When I teach graphic recording and graphic facilitation, new students always ask one specific question: “So we create these huge posters, … Read more how to edit graphic recording posters
The Question Well tool Hello! We’re Jennifer Shepherd and Sam Bradd. We’re visual practitioners, educators and facilitators. This tool below is an excerpt from a chapter you’ll find in our anthology Drawn Together Through Visual Practice, published in 2016. You can download this free reflection tool called Question Well at the link below. PDF Download: … Read more Question Well: A free Reflection Tool for Visual Practitioners
What if evaluation methodologies were about transformational systems change, and deepening social justice? An article in the free, new e-Anthology from the Developmental Evaluation Institute (DEI) features graphic facilitation as a tool for developmental evaluation. Written by Trilby Smith and Natalie Ord from the Vancouver Foundation and the Fostering Change Initiative, Trilby and Natalie shared their … Read more free ebook – Evaluation and Graphic Recording together for social justice
Graphic recording helps us see complex information in new ways. It creates more understanding, helps us hear each other and can connect us to purpose – while inviting in more creativity. After hundreds of online meetings during the pandemic, here’s 10 things I’ve learned about adapting graphic facilitation to an online world. Graphic facilitation can … Read more 10 Things I’ve Learned About Graphic Facilitation in a Virtual World
Wondering about a creative career and finding your own path? The UBC Department of Educational Studies brought together alumni of the EDST program (which included me as a graphic facilitator!) to talk about how we’ve forged our own way. All co-panelists shared their personal journeys – and our ups and downs of self-employment – and … Read more ICYMI – finding your own path and creative career
M.E in BC: How the Healthcare system for M.E Impacts Clinicians and Patients Recently, Drawing Change illustrated the results of this preliminary project examining the unmet needs of British Columbians living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). This patient led community inquiry project was conducted through a partnership between the ME/FM Society of BC, the Complex Chronic … Read more Healthcare System Research ME/FM Society of BC – visuals