The Center for Graphic Facilitation

Pop-Up XPLANE Detroit

Pop-Up XPLANE Detroit

XPLANE will be calling Michigan our home at the Detroit Creative Corridor Center from June 20-24, 2016 with a week of events focused on visual problem solving.

Upcoming GF Training Opportunities

Here are some GF training opportunities coming up in August:

August 12 (Denmark)
Brandy Agerbeck : The Lab, a workshop in visual thinking and graphic facilitation
https://www.facebook.com/events/606441709483149/

August 14-15 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Alphachimp: Become a Rockstar Scribe at School or Work
One-and-a-half day workshop on basic and advanced graphic facilitation skills.
http://www.alphachimp.com/chimp-learn-good-workshops/

August 26-28 (Washington, DC)
Crowley & Co. Workshop : Intro to Graphic Facilitation
http://crowleyandco.us/introduction-to-graphic-facilitation/

Aug 26-28 (NYC)
ImageThink & The Innovation Loft
A combination of 1, 2, and 3 day packages covering scribing basics and advanced facilitation techniques.
http://innovationloft.com/events/teamstorming-training/

Aug 26–28 (San Francisco)
Grove Consultants: Designing & Leading Change Intensive
http://www.grove.com/site/wkshp_pcd.html

Join Dan Roam in San Francisco for 2 full days of visual thinking!

Pictures are our best tool for leadership, sales, training, communications, and problem-solving. Over the past 7 years, Dan's personally trained thousands of professionals like you to become master visual-thinkers. Now he'd like to invite you to join him in San Francisco for his full two-day training conference. Discover for yourself the problem-solving power of your own visual mind. This is your chance to experience the same training he's delivered at Microsoft, Google, Boeing, Gap, Siemens, Philips, the United States Senate, and the White House.

The workshop includes: 

• 16 hours of intense, hands-on visual training.
• Dan's new SHOW & TELL book.
• Dan's UNFOLDING THE NAPKIN workbook.
• Personal whiteboard, pen, & eraser.
• 2 excellent breakfasts and lunches.
• True insight, useful tools, & real-world exercises.

This two-day workshop normally costs $1,295, but if you sign up now (before May 15, 2015) you'll get $200 off!

Register now and save $200!

The Doodle Institute Offering a Mini-Session

 

The Doodle Institute is back with another installment of drawing instruction for the working world. Diane Durand of Discovery Doodles, LLC will build on the basics of doodling to teach more about the history of drawing. Once you know the history, you can define, build, enhance or create your own personal style.

 

The session will be held Thursday, October 9, 2014  6:00pm - 8:30pm at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago.

Click HERE to register now!

Visual ebook is now available on iTunes for FREE

 

 

143 Visuals To Inspire You to Take Action 

Scott Torrance, Founder of Flux Insights, is offering his NEW visual ebook on Apple iBooks via iTunes! And it will stay there FOREVER....

 

Get a free sample or buy 143 Visuals To Inspire You to Take Action by Scott Torrance on the iTunes Store. You can read this book with iBooks on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

 

 

 

Free Download of Diane Durand Bleck's New Book

 

For the launch of The Doodle Institute, Diane Durand Bleck is giving away 100 free downloads of her new book, You Can Doodle, available now on Amazon.

 

Download your FREE PDF version here.

Get your own paperback book here.

 

Merkley's SHIFT-IT Starting Tomorrow!

The much-anticipated SHIFT-IT course from Christina Merkley is beginning TOMORROW (9-20)!

Christina explains her course:

This leading-edge Visual Coaching experience is for people who are ready to Become Your Next Self... in whatever area or combo of areas you want to SHIFT (right livelihood/business, abundance, relationship, body, emotional fulfillment, etc).

 

Last-minute students are completely welcome! Just follow this link, register, and you'll have everything you need to begin the course tomorrow!

To see Christina's other offerings, click here. 

Michelle Laurie Offers an Extra Workshop!

Direct from michellelaurie.com:

We had a fabulous time hosting 22 people for our 5th annual graphic facilitation workshop in Rossland [British Columbia, Canada] this July. So much fun and learning took place that I’m doing a second workshop for those who couldn’t join!

Please come out to Rossland Sept 29-30 and let your creativity fly.

 

Check out Laurie's site for all the details!

 

Christina Merkley Offers Interactive-Visuals Course

 

Fundamentals in Interactive Visuals® Course Begins SOON!

 

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"Interactive-Visuals" is the umbrella term I use to sum up the four main ways of working visually with groups and individuals: Studio Work Graphic Recording Graphic Facilitation Graphic Coaching /Therapy

Working visually is a POWERFUL method to boost your process work with groups and/or individuals. If you aren't working at least somewhat visually with your clients you are missing out on an important and strategic professional edge...”

 

Christina Merkley's Fundamentals in Interactive-Visuals ® course is beginning on October 6th! Early Bird pricing ends on Monday, September 8th.

 

Make sure you don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to learn how to create and use visuals in individual and group settings!

Here's Why, How, and What You Should Doodle to Boost Your Memory and Creativity

 

Author Jennifer Miller talks with Sunni Brown about the amazing creative power of something we've always been told is a “distraction” or a “waste of time”: Doodling! 

Did your boss ever catch you covering an important memo with Escher-like scribbles? In high school, did your teacher call you out for drawing on the desk, your sneakers, your skin? Today, the doodle nay-sayers are being drowned out by a growing body of research and opinion that indicates that connects that seemingly distracted scribbling with greater info retention and creativity. Companies like Dell, and Zappos, and Disney are eager for employees to doodle on the job--they even pay consultants to help them.

 

Check out the full article here.