Bruce Flye, a newbie graphic
facilitator with a day job at East Carolina University, is introducing
the potential of images to the Society for College and University Planning,
otherwise known as SCUP. As a new faculty member for SCUP’s Planning
Institute, Flye began shadowing faculty during last year’s sessions,
just months after taking The Grove workshop on graphic facilitation.
The use of large-scale images, both as posters made ahead of time and
as facilitation tools, has been so well-received that the methods used
in his portion of the Institute have been modified to take advantage
of the new possibilities.
Traditionally, workshops of
this nature are conducted with a series of short lectures, followed
by hands-on group work and subsequent presentations. Flye and his co-presenter,
Phyllis Grummon of SCUP, discovered that the participants all had experiences
in the content worth sharing, and that personal discoveries increased
as the participants exchanged and built on their experiences. The workshop
has now evolved into much more of a facilitated session, and the use
of the large graphics has clearly energized the exchanges.
Flye’s session of the Planning Institute, Step III, will be offered in Tempe and Minneapolis during the Spring, and more information is available at http://www.scup.org/profdev/pi/. In June, Flye will also conduct a 5-day Planning Institute on behalf of SCUP for the National Association of College and University Food Service.
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