Graphic Facilitation
Is Note-Taking for the 21st Century

I’m not surprised if you haven’t heard about graphic facilitation. Yet. Big corporations, the United Nations, and universities have been doing it for years. But now, smaller and medium sized businesses are catching on to its benefits.

Do you check out when the lights go down and another Power Point presentation begins? You’re not alone!

What makes a meeting memorable is the collaborative and spontaneous exchange of ideas. Participants engage in a meeting when they are part of it. Ideas come alive and ideas bounce off the walls in a free-flow of creative energy.

If you’ve spent the time and money to bring people together in a meeting, you want to make it memorable. You want people to connect with the material. And with each other.

Is There A Cure For the Common Meeting?
Yes!

With Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording, meetings are:

People who are exposed to vivid images (even as many as 10,000 images being flashed at the rate of 1 per second!) have a recall rate averaging 99%! How does this compare with all those scintillating bullet points spelled out in white Arial type on yet another blue background? How many key points can you remember from the last meeting you attended?

When people help create solutions and are invested in them, they are more likely to take ownership and “run with the ball” after the meeting is over.

Modern life is complex and fast-paced. Business and personal communications occur at warp speed. Information is available to us in astonishing volume.  Each new generation is more visual and less language dependent. To be effective, you’ve got to use a method that captures and sustains attention.

Cut Through The Noise
Using Graphic Facilitation
To Grab Attention
And Make a Vivid Impression

The way information is sent and received is constantly evolving. Competition for our attention is fierce and most people can’t process all the messages being sent their way.

Major corporations such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, eBay, Wells Fargo, InfoSys, Peet’s Coffee, HP and hundreds of others are hiring visual practitioners to facilitate meetings using simple, playful sketches that help turn complicated concepts into easily shared, easily remembered nuggets. Images transcend language barriers and break through the mental clutter of information overload.

I can help you make your next board retreat, product brainstorming session, or training event something truly memorable and productive. Watch people become truly inspired and creative in ways you never imagined.

I will capture the essence of the gathering and the key points that need to be remembered.

[Caption for photo of Tania with “holster”]

I show up with canvases of butcher paper and giant sticky notes. Using colorful pens and chalk pastels, drawing skills, and deep listening, i pulls ideas out of you and your team and capture big ideas on big paper.

I am a member of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) and trained in the subtle yet effective art of making the abstract concrete.

In addition to graphic facilitation and recording, I have put my unique illustration style to use in book illustrations, cartoons, and illustrating key concepts for meeting facilitators and trainers.

[Click here for portfolio of illustrations.]