Graphical Facilitation: Enabling Conversation And Learning Through Images

If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ this book provides an approach to help create professional pictures that productively and powerfully capture conversations and thinking for individual and collective learning. Individuals are bombarded by information, and organizations, managers, and teachers often lack a corresponding set of tools to make sense of this complexity―resulting in far too many “death by bullet-point” presentations. This is that toolkit, also offering invitations to readers to extend their thinking past these tools to enable the creation (and co-creation with teams, learners, and clients) of graphical depictions, models, and metaphors to help people make sense of their world. This accessible book is constructed as a visual reference so readers can quickly pick out the specific tool or strategy they need, whether working with individuals and teams to promote self-awareness, develop emotional intelligence, improve communication, or articulate vision and strategy.

This clear and adaptable guide will be a welcome resource for teachers, trainers, managers, and coaches to empower people to learn, think, and create in a powerful, memorable, and graphical way.

Dr. Curie Scott is an independent Education and Arts & Health consultant, coach, and artist. Qualified in medicine, science, and education, her knowledge and research span Arts and Health. She is an award-winning teacher, having taught hundreds of health professional students. Her thinking-through-drawing workshops help individuals and organizations within the Health and Education sectors navigate complexities and create meaningful narratives through drawing. Curie was the strategic lead for rolling out “Prosper”, an innovative career development tool for researchers at the University of Southampton.

Dr. Steve Hutchinson has spent over two decades at the forefront of training and development practice. As an independent consultant, using graphical approaches, he has worked as a coach, trainer and developer for Universities and research institutes all over the world, as well as leading acclaimed events and programmes in the public and private sectors. He has previously co-authored or edited six books about professional development, coaching, supervision, and leadership.