The Grove Thoughts from and for The Grove Worldwide Network

David Sibbet will be presenting a workshop at Viz Think in San Jose this February 24 at 2:00-3:30 called “Facilitating On-line With Graphics.” The workshop will cover the following:

Demonstration and exploration of how to guide Visual Planning meetings on web conferences using interactive visualization on tablet PCs and templates. This workshop will also share a case from TED where David worked with Autodesk to record the entire conference on Wacom tablets for multi-touch displays. Participants would:

* Experience a tablet recording demonstration
* Review principles for facilitating virtual meetings visually
* Get tips on types of tablets and software
* Best practices for guiding the meeting and getting convergence
* Use of Grove Graphic Guides® as templates for business planning
* Use of Grove’s Visual Planning Systems for designing your meetings

Check out the full conference schedule and registration at Viz Think.com.

Much of the complexity of working with groups graphically and especially working with groups as a graphic facilitator where one is writing and drawing down what people say, is learning to understand analogy and metaphor and fly easily through them without getting stuck and confused. (Notice the “fly” metaphor?)

Here is one showing the Four Flows of facilitation as a Mandala of choices surrounding a musical conductor.

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