“HEAD, HEART and HANDS: Catalyzing Powerful High-Touch Communication”
October 26 – 29, 2006
Granlibakken Resort & Conference Center,
Tahoe City, California [see map]
Whether an old-timer with 30+ years of scrbing under your belt, or a newcomer eager to learn about the trade secrets, skills and practioners in this field, this gathering is well worth the journey.
Details at http://www.ifvp.org/
This year’s theme is all about exploring what it means to be professionals who truly integrate head, heart and hands in our work.
Those of us working in this field embody a sensibility and capability
that is contemporary and needed. As communication becomes more digital,
fragmented and reactive, the need for a balancing practice that is
analogic, integrated, and responsive is growing. Remote work teams need
excellent, productive face-to-face experiences through which to get to
know each other and then sustain their connection when working at a
distance. Organizations trying to conduct business by PowerPoint truly
need alternatives that support big picture thinking, deep dialogue, and
true alignment. We provide these alternatives.
Digital
natives are already fluid in word, image, and sound, and think in terms
of multiple intelligences and multi-media. Graphic facilitation is this
kind of intelligence applied to professional group work, and could
become the preferred medium as the younger generation finds out about
us, and we become more able to work across the line between
face-to-face and digital communications.
This conference will provide experiences across the spectrum of head,
heart & hands and directly engage the question of how we
communicate the value of this kind of integration. In the main part of
the conference we will engage the key elements separately and together.
For the head we will consider the underpinnings and structure behind
various types of recording; we will explore the role of visual metaphor
in providing a portal into systems level thinking; we will look at
strategies for marketing our work and our value proposition to clients,
and we will share best practices for organizing text/graphic
information.
For the heart we will enjoy the beauty of the Lake Tahoe area through a
metaphor walk in the woods, have circle dialogues, social times, and
storytelling about our practices. In the evenings we will gather to
enjoy each other’s company – making new friends and reconnecting with
old ones.
For the hand we will have a new practitioner’s workshop focusing on quickdraw skills and recording, a digital workshop actually making presentations, a cartooning section, and many opportunities to record. We will also have opportunities to deeply engage in sessions on visualizing and drawing. In addition, drummer, Marlin Boisen has also agreed to attend with his drums and lead us in whatever ways we would like to engage him.
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