Graphic facilitation – Communicating visually

Do you want to capture attention and make a lasting impression in your presentations, workshops, training courses or meetings? Learn how to turn your thoughts into simple, effective drawings, even if you think you can’t draw.

Training objectives

• Develop your ability to convey ideas pictorially
• Gain confidence with your drawing skills
• Unleash your creativity
• Recognize the uses of visual communication

What you will learn

• Explore different formats: sketchnote, scribing, modeling, speaking/drawing
• “Capture and express ideas visually, individually or in a group
• Create your own graphics library
• Master live graphics capture techniques
• Improve your meeting facilitation methods with drawing

Content

DAY 1

• Preparing for graphic facilitation
• Writing
• Basic drawing shapes
• Building your graphics library
• Mixing text and images
• Colorize your drawings
• Enrich your drawings with shadows and perspectives
• Connecting/separating ideas on a drawing
• Visual simplicity
• Sketchnote, graphic facilitation for yourself
• Visual frames
• Personal filters and listening biases
• Flow management, managing stage fright, stress and learning to breathe
• Space management
• Scribing, visually recording a meeting or conference
• Conversational models

DAY 2

• Visual weather
• Feedback
• Characters, actions, emotions, movements
• Modeling, summarizing known information
• Visual improvisation, acceptance and letting go
• Work outlines and metaphors
• Talk/draw: make a presentation and draw it live
• Other uses of graphic facilitation and the position of the graphic facilitator
• Developing visual listening skills
• Post-processing your drawings
• The graphic facilitator’s equipment
• Preparing for autonomy

Bonus

🎁 When you register for the face-to-face course, you also receive free, unlimited access to the online course. If you wish, you can pursue your learning over the long term, either on your own or by joining us for our weekly live sessions.