About this Event
Intro to Graphic Facilitation: IN PERSON with Drawing Change
Spend a lot time in meetings wondering, “What’s happening? Is this the best use of our time?” Drawing Change can show you a better way. Create meetings that matter using graphic facilitation and graphic recording. This workshop has 9 participants and is in Vancouver BC, Canada. We've trained hundreds of people and love teaching.
What will I learn in this graphic facilitation training?
- Hone your listening and drawing skills to make meaning, increase collaboration, and solve problems
- Expand your leadership tool-box
- Develop your capacity to distill information
- Energize your creativity
- Have deep conversations about working wisely with visuals, organizational development, and power
- Curious about specific learning outcomes? Here’s a work-in-progress document
Who should attend?
This workshop is for facilitators, educators, managers, and innovators – anyone who finds themselves working with groups (isn’t that everyone?). We’ve trained people from young adults to people making a career shift in retirement. You don’t need to be a super-sketcher to be able to communicate visually. If you’ve ever drawn two overlapping circles to explain something, you’re already using visual thinking. This workshop will enhance how you connect ideas, listen and create visual summaries for meetings and events. Our workshops generally attract people who want a unique approach to using visuals with a lens of diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well. Participants have come to in-person trainings from 6 countries – and all sorts of educational and professional backgrounds.
What's the agenda?
Before Day 1: Short evening social
- Friday night optional evening social, at a nearby restaurant from 5-630pm. Sam buys appetizers for everyone, and it's a low-key way to socialize before we jump in the next morning
Day 1: Focus on Graphic Recording 9:00 -4:00 pm
- Building your visual vocabulary (even if you think you “can’t draw”)
- Lettering five ways: bring your flip charts to the next level
- Layouts and how to structure the blank page
- Hands on-practice
- Overview of the field
- Resources for your success
Day 2: Focus on Graphic Facilitation 9:00 - 4:00 pm
- Visual tools for facilitating meetings – when you’re drawing and talking
- Choosing the right tools / approaches
- Special topics (technology, ipads, etc)
- Conversations about power and responsibilities
Day 3: Putting it all together 9:00 -2:00 pm
- You'll see a big leap on Day 3 from where we start on Day 1. We have a unique setup for a supportive environment – and a chance to integrate your learning
- Practice graphic recording in a slow paced way with scaffolding an support
- Create action plans and next steps for your practice
Meet the trainer, Sam Bradd
Hi! I’m Sam Bradd (he/him). I’m Italian and Scottish, and live on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver). I’m a graphic facilitator, meeting facilitator, and the Principal of Drawing Change. I combine 25 years’ facilitation experience with visuals to help groups unlock their creativity and lead. Since 2010, I’ve taught hundreds of people how to do graphic recording and graphic facilitation. For the last four years, I've also taught an online cohort of Indigenous graphic recorders in partnership with CIER.
My formal education includes an MEd in Educational Studies (UBC) and I bring a strengths-based, intersectional, and anti-racism lens. As a graphic recorder, I’ve worked in 11 countries and edited two books. Ask me about my new side project, opening up a new wool mill in Saskatchewan called Tailwinds Fibre Mill with some great friends, too.
What’s included? Supplies and snacks, of course
FULL KIT of professional graphic recording drawing supplies valued at over $200 (it used to be $100 and we just keep adding to it). I’m a Neuland® Ambassador and their tools make a huge difference – we’ll set you up with a generous kit of markers and supplies. You can bring an ipad / tablet if you like.
Light breakfast, lunch and snacks provided
200-page Drawing Change resource book and printed materials to support your visual practice
Recap of what’s included:
- Low key social Friday night
- Workshop Saturday and Sunday 9am to 4pm, Monday 9-2pm
- Light breakfast, lunch, drinks, snacks
- Custom training resources created by Drawing Change
- Two exclusive Neuland® Ambassador gifts
- and a new network of visual practitioners to support you after the course!
What does the 2027 Intro training cost?
In person course: $3000 CAD (plus GST, and Eventbrite fees)
Payment options:
- buy Eventbrite tickets here with a credit card
- Canada: e-transfer, cheque or invoice
- US: wire transfer, invoice or check
Payment plans are available, we just ask that it be paid by the time the course starts.
Cancellation policy:
60 days before: You can cancel with full refund minus any processing fees up to 59 days before the course
Cancellation 30-59 days: 30-59 days before the course is a refund minus 20%, unless you transfer it to someone else.
Cancellation up to 29 days: no refund possible (unless you transfer it to someone else.)
Venue information:
Venue has single -stall washrooms, huge windows, ground floor accessible entrance. It's centrally located in Vancouver, BC Canada at Carousel Theater on Granville Island. For people travelling from out of town, it's not really an island but an arts hub, and we'll send great recommendations about places to stay in Vancouver and other fun things to see.
Event venue & nearby stays
Carousel Theatre for Young People, 1411 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, Canada
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