GRAPHIC EXPRESS: First steps to graphic facilitation in youth work (facebook.com/joonmeedia)

Welcome to Graphic Express! Our aim is to guide you through some elementary introductions and
experiences for Graphic Facilitation with ideas, tools and methods for developing your visual literacy
and competence.
There are 4 main sections:
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facilitation is a great source of learning;
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graphic facilitation;
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Joonmedia – the two creatives with wide experience and expertise of delivering Graphic Facilitation;
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a team last year to develop, plan, and deliver a Graphic Facilitation training course as a precursor for
the 2013 edition of the SALTO EuroMed Tool Fair in Delphi, Greece. The training allowed us to test
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Graphic Facilitation and the annual Tool Fair
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national agencies of the Youth in Action Programme – has
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agency to follow the Tool Fair in Tallinn in 2011 and caught
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and cartoons to highlight events. And it was there that the idea
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Greece. Twelve participants were empowered to attend all
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of graphic snapshots and recordings which were added to an
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28 Graphic Facilitation
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32 How And When To Involve Others
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21 Metaphors And More
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23 Templates
34 Using The Results After An Event
36 More Fun With A Pen
37 Reference
4 Reasons For Using Graphic Facilitation For
Learning Support
5 Drawing For Sharing A Message Through
History
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8 Having And Growing That Inner Readiness
10 A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
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training, or conference for example. One
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essence of a meeting, what people said
and what people have agreed on, as well
as the outcomes and agreed actions.
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has happened, or a concept,
or a result. To use more poetic
language: a drop of water
representing the ocean!
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which includes drawings and
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or shading in order to pass a
clear message.
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ensure we are touching the needs of the wide range of learners we come into contact with.
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to convey a message.
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encompasses all that we are trying to do in this arena.
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terms used in the world of drawing for recording and transmitting messages. Of course
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form found in language today in China
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depicting around 50 different scenes
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for thousands of years, some claiming
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using visualisations to explain their
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drawings of a telephone device.
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Simple images that portray
life, such as hunting and the
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in caves around the world.

memorising some facts
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in doing something
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class during the Industrial
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example: the list of the lowest scores
in the Eurovision Song Contest
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example: different sources of
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intercultural learning in a
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from others
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try new ways, choosing
what to draw and having the
courage to let other people
see your drawings. And it
gets even more important to
strengthen inner readiness
when participants have to
draw in front of others!
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the topic,
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this third part of competence really is. We prefer to use the term “inner readiness²
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a real challenge! Facilitators have to pay special attention to
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supportive learning environment and many opportunities to
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fear of criticism – internally from ourselves and externally
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that they are also open to different
interpretations!
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graphic facilitation
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From the materials
listed here, all you really
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Got all you need?
Then here is the
invitation – let’s start!!
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1 – drawing with a black line
(using markers) – VISIBILITY
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communicate the idea easily and do it
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you have more time you could turn your
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in with colours, for example. Try not to
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images – SPEED EASE OF
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images very simple. The most important
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is that they communicate ideas which are
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way to start creating your own style. We explore
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Here are some examples which we have used.
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You might draw
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There are loads of
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invent a new one.
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these are: Preparing, Delivering and Documenting. And
we introduce some of the graphic activities you might
use here.
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They usually start from the middle
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to which you start to add the
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