Nancy White Full Circle Associates
www.fullcirc.com@nancywhite
April 2010
A picture is worth a thousand words
This is a chart by the French civil engineer, Charles Joseph Minard , drawn 50 years after Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. He wanted to show the impact and true cost of war upon men’s lives.
http://flickr.com/photos/leelefever/2246194618/in/set-72157603857270660
http://flickr.com/photos/leelefever/2243219038/in/set-72157603857270660
But you know this….
LISTEN
…invite storytelling and meaning-making
… somehow more NEGOTIABLE…
We can “write on the table” together.
… the power of
making our mark…
share
identity
Organize our thoughts
Supporting Specific Large Group Methods
• The World Café
• Open Space
• Appreciative Inquiry
Theoretical Basis(from Sibbet and Margulies and the work of Arthur
Young, noted in The Change Handbook, )
http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781576753798
In doing F2F graphic work, new worlds have been opened up to me.
What would they look like online?
Learning how to not screw up communicating together online all the time….
http://bgblogging.com/
http://www.commoncraft.com/blog
http://www.scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/
http://xkcd.com/382/
http://palojono.blogspot.com/2008/01/story-behind-product.html
Enhancing Telephone
Conferences
On phone calls, a simple visual practice can help us “see” each other in new ways…
Enhancing Web Meetings
Welcome! Write yourname beneath a chair and get comfortable!
Choconancy’s chairs http://www.fullcirc.com
Thinking and organizing ideas
together
What happens when we organize our words visually?
http://www.kstoolkit.org/Mindmapping
Visual harvest from in “in world” World Café in Second Life – February 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/choconancy/sets/72157605091310649/
Capture and share artifacts from F2F events
We can use images online to
help us establish context, make meaning and create
memories to continue our experience?
Can we draw together online?
Did you say draw? Me draw?
Yeah, you!
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso
Using existing images… like FLICKR! Or Video like YouTube?
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.youtube.com
So what?
Be obviousAccept offers
Fail cheerfully
http://palojono.blogspot.com/2008/02/lessons-from-improv-for-design-be.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Johnstone
But you knew that.
More, More, More
• http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Graphic+Recording+and+Facilitation• http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Online+Visual+Tools+and+Methods• http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/blogging+to+drawing• http://del.icio.us/choconancy/visual_blogs• http://del.icio.us/choconancy/visual_thinking• http://www.fullcirc.com (my blog)