A picture is
        worth a
thousand words:
the art of graphic facilitation


       For SIKM, September 18, 2102
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sikmleaders/
                             Nancy White
                    Full Circle Associates
                         www.fullcirc.com
                             @nancywhite
This is a chart by the French civil engineer, Charles Joseph
Minard , drawn 50 years after Napoleon's Russian campaign
of 1812. He wanted to show the impact and true cost of war
upon men’s lives.
http://flickr.com/photos/leelefever/2243219038/in/set-72157603857270660
Theoretical Basis
   (from Sibbet and Margulies and the work of Arthur
       Young, noted in The Change Handbook, )




http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781576753798
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…invite storytelling
               and   meaning-making
… somehow more NEGOTIABLE…
We can “write   on the table” together.
… the power of
making our
mark…
share
identity
Organize our thoughts
What happens when we organize our words visually?




http://www.kstoolkit.org/Mindmapping
Capture and share
artifacts from F2F
events
http://www.flickr.com/photos/choconancy/sets/72157605091310649/
Social reporting
Supporting Specific Large
      Group Methods
• The World Café
• Open Space
• Appreciative Inquiry (dream and design
  phases)
• Strategic planning (timelines, journey
  maps, “river of life”)
• Kinesthetic modeling, collage, “building
  things together”
Image:
Avril Orloff
In doing F2F
graphic work,
new worlds
open up. What
do they look like
online?
Learning how to not screw up communicating together online all the time….
http://bgblogging.com/
http://www.commoncraft.com/blog
http://xkcd.com/382/
http://palojono.blogspot.com/2008/01/story-behind-product.html
Enhancing
 Telephone
Conferences
On phone calls,
a simple visual
practice can help
us “see” each
other in new
ways…
Enhancing Web
   Meetings
Welcome! Write your
                                        name beneath a chair
                                        and get comfortable!




Choconancy’s chairs http://www.fullcirc.com
Draw together online
Visual harvest from in “in world” World Café in Second Life – February 2008
We can use images to help us
establish context, make
meaning and create
memories to continue our
experience…
More
   https://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Visual+Work+
    and+Thinking
   http://www.fullcirc.com (my blog)
   http://del.icio.us/choconancy/visual_thinking
   Flickr Graphic facilitation tag http://bit.ly/UIpjTx
   http://www.ifvp.org
    (International Forum of Visual Practitioners)
   Brandy Agerbeck’s book http://amzn.to/UIoWbN
   More books! http://bit.ly/UIp4I5

Graphic Facilitation for SIKM Presentation

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Visuals have changed our understanding of the world, as in this graphic that represents the immense loss of life in war. This is a chart by the French civil engineer, Charles Joseph Minard , drawn 50 years after Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. He wanted to show the impact and true cost of war upon men’s lives.
  • #4 Visuals pique our interest and curiosity…
  • #5 David Sibbet, Nancy Margulies and others have helped us understand both the theoretical ideas behind visual practices as well as HOW to do it. See the great work of the Grove and the International Forum of Visual Practitioners.
  • #6 Doodling helps us listen. In fact these days, doodling is down right popular with articles in the Wall Street Journal! Sketchnoting has become all the rage. Look at the work of Dan Roan and Mike Rhode!
  • #7 We well tell and remember our stories with pictures.
  • #8 While working overseas, even in meetings supposedly in English, pictures change things.
  • #10 Invite each other to make our marks
  • #11 Beyond photos, what happens when we represent ourselves individually? Share our identity
  • #12 I have a brain that is always overflowing with ideas. It gets so busy. When presenting, I can get incoherent. Some of you can testify!
  • #13 http://www.kstoolkit.org/Mindmapping
  • #21 All these changes I noticed as I began to get more involved in drawing on walls changed my practices. They changed me. So now I’m wondering how they are going to change my online practices. How these online practices might be useful to more than me. Like maybe, to YOU!
  • #22 We fatigue with a stream of text, as near and dear as it is to our hearts and minds…
  • #25 What happens when a visual just makes everything click?
  • #26 Why is humor experienced differently when it is visual?
  • #27 I love the blogger who summarizes an idea with a quick sketch.