The very talented Avril Orloff
The best educational experiences leave me feeling excited and a little bit nervous about what comes next. I felt both after a creative and challenging 2-day The Artful Facilitator workshop taught by graphic recorder Avril Orloff.
For me, artful facilitation is a combination of techniques that invite creativity into the room. Graphic recording, preparing templates or agendas, and designing activities that engage visual learners help participants engage to their fullest. Here’s some of our photos:
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- by Avril Orloff
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- The very talented Avril Orloff
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- a simple ‘welcome’ is fun
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- designing agendas
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- group work: templates
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- getting into concepts
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- using circles/ squares for people
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- using circles/squares to draw shapes
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- group work
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- template work for groups
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- trying out refillable water based pens
Sometimes, doing the basics for a meeting is just fine. But have you been to a meeting that generated a list of flip charts – that live on a shelf? Yearned for a summary of a exciting planning retreat that captured the feeling in the room? Working with populations with different literacy levels? Want art to communicate across different backgrounds, literacy levels, ages, experiences? Artful facilitation techniques can help. I’m a visual learner, and as a facilitator I also want to welcome participants into my meetings – and now I have more tools to do just that.
Can’t wait for more opportunities to bring these out in 2012.
Thanks for writing about your experience, Sam! It was an absolute joy to have you in the class, and I’m completely blown away by how intuitively you absorbed everything and put it together to create elegant and inviting graphics.
great summary of the event, Sam – good to meet you!