Christian Nold thinks we should pay more attention to how our environment shapes our emotional and physiological states.
His work with Bio Mapping—which measures people’s responses to their environment and connects those feelings to their physical location—suggests that a map of emotional landscapes represents a powerful tool for analyzing the relationship between place and broader social issues.
"Top 10 Tasks - Quick Start Your Neighborhood Disaster Recovery" is a
simple and proven approach to a do-it-yourself relief center. This is
useful for anyone dealing with hurricane, fire, or other disaster
recovery. (from Joe and Rita Sterling of Sterling Insights)
Joe Sterling is a facilitator, strategist, graphic recorder and community organizer in the San Diego area. In 2003, his community outside Alpine, California was devastated by wildfires.
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Leah Silverman has been supporting facilitated events that use graphic facilitation since 2003.
But it was not until Fall of '07 that she strapped on the markers herself and stepped out as a Graphic Recorder. These are her reflections on her first International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference:
I had a wonderful time and felt welcomed into this generous community. I also had the great privilege of looking over the shoulders of some amazing graphic recorders. I primarily went to learn more about graphically documenting, and the Graphics 101 course led by Brandy Agerbeck and Lynn Carruthers was very helpful with the basics. I now have a good head start on this new phase of my work path. Next year I'd like to see a possible follow-up course with more emphasis on hands-on practice and more concentration on listening skills and clustering information.
(ABOVE: photo of Leah by Sunpanther. More photos and slideshow on Flickr, tag: IFVP2007 )
Thanks to Nancy White of Full Circle who did a fantastic job blogging the 2007 International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
... I have been immersed in a new tribe: the Visual Practitioners. People who listen with amazing depth and bring peoples words into a new life in images on the wall. Some are graphic recorders who focus on accurate capture of conversations. Some are graphic facilitators who use images as part of a group process. Some, like me, recognize and thirst for the ability to use image in our work - regardless of that work.
Read more of her reflections on the presenters and rich conversations on the Onfac Blog.
Visit Nancy's Flickr account where you can see photos and a slideshow of the talented participants and the mindmaps, illustrations and wall maps they created.
Thanks to Kelvy Bird in Massachusetts for establishing the Graphic Facilitators Group in the ever popular social networking site, Facebook.
Kelvy writes:
Maybe a way to share what's up - insights.. etc? banal stuff. I know we have a ton of ways in place to already do this. i seem to be addicted to Facebook and already more engaged in uploading things here than I have to other places.
As of July 2007, Facebook had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 30 million members worldwide (also from non-collegiate networks). It is also the seventh most visited site in the United States.
The group established by Bird is open to the public, so if you would like to join, register at http://facebook.com/ and search for the group "graphic facilitation".
COME GROW WITH US!
Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 12th Annual IFVP Conference on October 18-21, 2007 at the beautiful and serene Bishop's Lodge Resort and Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
THERE'S ONE OPPORTUNITY EACH YEAR TO…
Highlights include:
For pricing, logistics and registration, visit:
http://www.visualpractitioner.org/ivpc07/
Graphic facilitators Drew Dernavich and Matt Diffee, both established cartoonists for the New Yorker, participated in Cartoonists Unleashed, the first-ever cartoon variety show, for the New Yorker Festival.
In 2001, David Sibbet and Joan McIntosh of The Grove Consultants International facilitated the following workshop that traced the history of graphic facilitation at the International Association of Facilitators Conference 2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
A Graphic Facilitation Retrospective: Charting What We Learned
(Thanks to Dave Davidson for the link.)
As we attempt to create an atlas of graphic facilitators around the globe, we so many family trees of practitioners with multiple progenitors spawning communities of practice: David Sibbet's students and collaborators in the Bay Area; MG Taylor's US network; Cap Gemini's Accelerated Solutions Environments in Chicago, Cambridge, New York, Europe and Australia; and many more communities of practice of which we are ignorant.
Please help us to chart both the history and existing lineage of practitioners! If you or someone you know help individuals and groups make strategic decisions and solve problems through visual learning, please register with us. It's free and easy.
In launching this site, we aim to make graphic facilitators more aware of themselves as a community, more connected as professionals, and more accepted to both businesses and communities.
Let us know whom we should know about for our atlas!
Thanks.
In case you haven't read a local paper recently, pretty much all cities and towns across America are struggling with massive budget deficits.
They are suffering the ill effects caused by the chronic failure to invest in any quality, long-term planning (ex. inviting casinos to solve the crisis in public education?).
In pursuit of new models, many municipalities are calling on consultants and facilitators to help them re-think strategies for growth, sustainability and economic development.
Several emerging themes impact the thinking behind these initiatives: attracting and retaining talent, establishing knowledge-based economies, creating a place that your kids want to move back to after going of to college.
Oh yeah,... and jobs.
Many innovative solutions are afoot in rural Washington State, downtown Philly, Austin city limits and Basque Country.
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