A step towards graphic facilitation: Micheline Chartrand
June 20, 2007
For a while I had been thinking about using some graphic facilitation but I kept shying away from it because I am not much of a graphic artist. Well , in her workshop, Nancy managed to “liberate me from my censor”. I found out that to practice graphic facilitation you didn’t need to be a talented artist, that with just a few tips in your pocket you could start experimenting with it.
Among the many tips that Nancy shared here are a few I found particularly useful: 1)Precise your intent: record the discussion or stimulate creative thinking? 2) Use a global metaphore as the background structure (mandala, tree, mountain) 3) Use words as art 4) Draw simple shapes 5) Tie up the pieces together with lines, arrows 6) Draw shadows to emphasize the important stuff…
The beauty of graphics is that, because of their relative imprecision, they leave more space than text for negociation of common meaning. The tips I gathered today will also be useful to enhance my mindmapping repertoire (I use mind mapping to sort out my thoughts when I get confused).
In this workshop, I definitely learned something that I will apply. Thanks Nancy,
Micheline
