Visual Facilitation Lab

You will learn the fundamentals of working with visuals and by the end of the day will be able to present your ideas visually.

This includes the following outcomes:

• development of visual vocabulary and ability to generate ideas rapidly with visuals
• Creation of visual flipcharts for your training or meetings
• Practice in clear lettering and layout
• Making Ideas Stick will provide you with a foundation of the tools, and techniques of working and thinking visually, as well as hands-on practise in using visual tools for group learning & facilitation.

In this session we will:

• create a foundation in the tools of Visual Thinking & Visual Recording
• build a framework for listening, synthesizing, and presenting ideas to support any communication objective.
• build core skills of Visual Recording in listening, synthesizing, drawing, writing quickly and legibly, combining images and words to create meaning and use colours effectively
• Create a “whole-brain friendly” language of visual elements, icons and metaphors to energize your business communications
• Learn how to communicate concepts and structures using simple visuals through a series of simple questions and perceptual frameworks
• Learn how to create more “Wow’s” in your programs with specialized templates and tools for group learning processes
• Visual Workshop Activity Session

DAY 2

Facilitation is the art of creatively moving a group forward to the desired objective, with full ownership of the outcomes. This interactive workshop will give you a working foundation on the tools, skills and strategies to energize group processes, improve decision making and boost engagement using visuals.

Equipped with Module 1 core skills and visual thinking tools, Module 2 will support program facilitators in creating more engaging and dynamic learning environments, processes and outcomes.You will learn to use visual tools to facilitate a variety of individual and group communication objectives, including case studies on corporate visioning, branding, customer engagement, and your individual client facilitation work.

In this session we will:

• Apply Visual Recording skills to Visual Facilitation
• Design a meeting or training with visuals
• Expand and integrate visual tools into your facilitator's toolkit using visuals for a variety of business setting including agenda design, participant check-in, action planning, decision making, strategic visioning, idea mapping, brainstorming
• Create engaging flipcharts and facilitation templates
• Develop and use metaphors, visuals to support facilitation objectives
• Boost problem solving and idea generation by getting groups to draw collaboratively
• Facilitate groups and teams with visual