At an Art For Change workshop, participants learn to:

1. Understand basic graphic principles and practices

• Think through your own group processes, to see where graphic support can have the most impact.
• Think through the use of templates for gathering and sorting information.
• Look at how to adjust your meeting plans to include visual thinking.
• Further explore why graphic support is important.
• Practice group process layered with graphic tools.
• Learn how to present information in a visual way.
• Review the basics (colors, sizes).
• Practice your graphic recording skills.
• Develop a personalized pictorial / graphic vocabulary.
• Learn where to find, and how to use various materials.

2. Understand basic meeting design principles and practices

3. Understand the stages of work

4. Link and integrate 1, 2 and 3

The second day of a workshop is generally based on requests from participants and will be relevant to the work they are doing. There will be real time practice of recording meeting processes, with plenty of time to answer questions and explore options in meeting planning and facilitation methods.

The 50+ page workbook includes sections on:

• The Benefits of Using Graphic Facilitation
• Core Competencies of a Graphic Facilitator
• Symbols and Colors
• Tools of the Trade
• Lettering Styles / Bullets
• Template Ideas
• Reduced Charts from Community-Building Retreats and Meeting Planning Sessions, as well as other Reduced Chart Examples.

The course is designed for 10-20 participants.

Please contact Christine for further information about customizing a course for your organization.

Rave Reviews!!

"Christine Valenza and Helen Spector's Graphic Facilitation workshop was just what we needed to take our team of UC-ANR facilitators to a higher skill level. Christine focused on using our teams' own experiences which made the workshop very engaging and relevant for our group. Many of our facilitator team members are using the techniques they learned in the workshop on a regular basis in their meetings and educational workshops. They report that individuals attending their meetings are more engaged, focused and thoughtful in their participation with the use of the great graphic facilitation techniques they learned from Christine and Helen. Graphic facilitation really has added value to our UC-ANR meetings. I was also very impressed with the systematic advance planning that Christine did to make sure the workshop filled the needs we had for increasing our facilitators' knowledge and skill in the use of graphic language. Christine and Helen are a great team, providing an invigorating "one-two" punch approach of seamless process facilitation with real-time graphic capture to effectively transfer workshop content and build capability."