Nancy White Full Circle Associates

November 2009

A picture is worth a thousand words

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278643

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….

A story…

LISTEN

… somehow more NEGOTIABLE…

…invite storytelling and meaning-making

… the power of

making our mark…

share

identity

Organize our thoughts

Najwa Adel

We can “write on the table” together.

We can create wall-sized graphics

We create visual remixes and Collaborative collage

We can use images online to help us establish context, make meaning and create

memories to continue our experience?

Outcomes from Sibbet and Margulies,The Change Hanbook

• Increased participation & engagement

• Group-level, big picture (systems) thinking

• Increased memory & continuity

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

Poster- focus attention; differentiateList – find the flow; line upCluster – activate comparisons; spaceGrid – build combinations; crossDiagram – grow understanding; branchDrawing – animate meaning; analogizeMandala – show unity; center

Let’s draw together…..

Did you say draw? Me draw?

Yeah, you!

uh oh, the inner censor…

In doing F2F graphic work, new worlds have been opened up to me.

What would they look like online?

Well, it can’t quite be as sensual as eating together, eh?

Learning how to not screw up communicating together online all the time….

http://www.beautydialogues.com/

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…

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

Drawing online together

Can we draw together online?

Using existing images… like FLICKR! Or Video like YouTube?

http://www.flickr.comhttp://www.youtube.com

Go find a picture that expresses….

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.

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