The Center for Graphic Facilitation

SHIFT-IT Central® Curriculum Fall Classes

with Christina Merkley http://www.shift-it-coach.com/

SHIFT-IT Central®
Mondays, 5pm Pacific (weekly drop-in coaching)
Join our growing SHIFT-IT Community! Weekly drop-in coaching to SHIFT your work and life for the better. Laser coaching, expert guests and leading-edge sharing — all with like-minded people from around the globe (you are in good company). Open to seasoned SHIFTers and newbies alike

Fundamentals of Interactive-Graphics
The Biz and Life Accelerator (9-Month Elite Mastermind)
Oct. 18 -June 20, 2011 (1st & 3rd Mondays at 2:30-4pm pacific) Plus 2 In-person Retreats (Nov. 19-20 Redondo Beach with THEO and May 6-7 Victoria, BC) … …wonderful global cohort

This new 9-month mastermind is for solo practices and small businesses at or desiring the 50-300K range. Take a quantum leap in your biz and life development, not to mention your bottom line! Biz building instruction coupled with deep inner alignment and spirituality (the unique one-two combo that has resulted in my own success). Accelerate your Biz and Life to Become Your Next Self!

SHIFT-IT COACH CERTIFICATION
Online: April 5 – June 7, 2011
Pre-requisites: SHIFT-IT Online & Fundamentals of Interactive-Graphics

Calling all coaches, therapists and other helping professionals! Easily and expertly learn how to work visually with your own coaching and therapy clients using my proven, highly effective SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process® and suite of 17 visual maps. This ready made system gives you professional and polished materials and marketing support to rapidly enhance your new or existing professional practice – plus membership in a growing global community of practitioners committed to individual and societal change. Next cohort forming now – apply today!

MORE at http://www.shift-it-coach.com/

Networked non-profits: changing the world with Twitter

From Rob Cunningham via BlogWorld:

I’ve learned that you can never go wrong by going to a Beth Kanter panel. The co-author ofThe Networked Nonprofit (I’m halfway through it on my iPad, and it’s terrific) has a gift for bringing out the audience’s shared wisdom and experience while keeping the panel conversation lively and valuable.

Not that panellists Danielle Brigida, social media outreach coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation, and Claire Williams, who leads social innovation at Twitter, needed any prodding. Each could have easily filled the hour with anecdotes, advice and recommendations. (Thanks to Williams, my new Twitter mantra is “WWKD: What Would Kanye Do?”)

Here are notes from Brigida’s and Williams’ presentations:

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WSJ: In the digital age, use your digits!

Via Twitter from Austin Kleon: The @wsj on why handwriting is good for you:

Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can improve idea composition and expression, and may aid fine motor-skill development.

It's not just children who benefit. Adults studying new symbols, such as Chinese characters, might enhance recognition by writing the characters by hand, researchers say. Some physicians say handwriting could be a good cognitive exercise for baby boomers working to keep their minds sharp as they age.

FULL ARTICLE >>

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The White House White Board: US Gov't Uses Visual Learning, Needs GF Training!

Inspired by Dan Roam, author of "Back of the Napkin", CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee Explains the Tax Cut Fight

September 30, 2010 | 1:56 | Public Domain | http://bit.ly/Tax-Cut-White-Board

Introducing White House Whiteboard. In this first edition, Austan Goolsbee, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers here at the White House, tackles the tax cut fight and what it means that Congressional Republicans are "holding middle class tax cuts hostage" as the President has said.

Remarkably similar to the opening from Andrew Park's RSA Animate series! More to appear at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/whiteboard

(Thanks to Rob Benn of http://positiveculture.ca)

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Gavin Blake's live scribe of "What's Mine Is Yours: Collaborative Consumption"

Gavin Blake recently collaborated with Rachel Botsman, author of What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption .

She read the book aloud and Gavin Graphic Recorded. It was truly an epic in terms of graphic recording. They read and drew for 14 or so hours over 2 days. The coloured Graphic Recording will soon be available on Gavin's site: www.feverpicture.com.au

Music by Michael Chin of Tokyo Love-in http://tokyolovein.tumblr.com/