Graphic Facilitation Gallery by Catherine Bachy

Graphic Facilitation Gallery by Catherine Bachy

GROUP MEMORY:PROJECT OR ORGANIZATION

HISTORY

A key step in a team’s or organization's strategic planning is having a clear picture of the group’s history. It is key to be able to answer the questions: How did we get to where we are? What did we learn along the way? Visual facilitation can assist a team or board to review the agreements they made and to see the trajectory of their project over time. They can quickly identify why, what, where and when and what their key learnings were at every step of the way.

HARVESTING GROUP WISDOM

Taking time to gather the group’s thinking in a day long strategic planning meeting before moving on to the next activity helps the group reflect on what they’ve learned and what they want to capture for further conversation or action.

VISUAL THOUGHT PARTNER

Teams seek clarity and alignment on the purpose and value of their work so they can powerfully tell their story to key stakeholders and funders. I can guide your team through an iterative, visual conversation to get focus and clarity on the outcomes you want for the important work you do.

CAPTURING NEXT STEPS FOR ACTION

Groups brainstorm next steps in how to move their work forward. Here I captured the meeting on post it notes and we grouped the notes to create a future action panel. Graphic displays such as this one help the group create a memory for the meeting, something they can go back to build on for future work and action

CREATING COMMITMENTS AND CLOSURE

Participants’ contributions to the panel with their words and images create a powerful display that fosters the group’s on going ownership of the meeting outcomes. This panel now hangs in the organization’s main conference room as a living reminder of the commitments made at the end of a strategic retreat.

DIGITAL MEDIA

Digital media works for graphically recording a virtual meeting or a keynote at a conference where the participants don’t need to see what I’m recording in the moment. They benefit from the graphic image as a reminder of the essence of the speaker’s message.

Keynote by Thomas Crum at the 2011 Pegasus Systems Thinking in Action Conference

Pegasus Systems Thinking Conference, Keynote

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CONCEPTS

A digital media platform works well to capture the essence of a coaching session with a client or to render a concept in a visual way. Rather than getting typed notes from sessions, my clients receive a digital image they can refer to as a reminder of what they took away from the session and want to integrate into next steps.

To honor my clients’ confidentiality, I am not sharing any of their images. Here is an image I created for myself after a coaching session with my long time coach and colleague. It helps me to remember how to get back to what’s really important to me: listening to my inner knowing and wisdom and taking five minutes every now and then to do so!

A blog post of colleague, Erica Mills of Claxon Marketing, inspired this graphic that captures the main points and flow of her article. This helped her to communicate her thinking in a visual manner.