You’re planning an important meeting/event/training session/retreat/world cafe/strategic planning, etc. and you need this meeting to be extremely effective. Moreover, you need this meeting to fully engage your group, deliver on outcomes, create a positive experience and generate some kind of useful record of the event that people will actually look at after the meeting (unlike a typed-up word document or a powerpoint presentation).
You need a seasoned Graphic Recorder.
So, what is the process to hire Stina as a Graphic Recorder?
An introduction meeting, a proposed outline of your meeting/event/process, and a quick conversation about how Stina’s services can maximize your meeting’s effectiveness. This could include co-design of the process or add-on graphic recording to your existing agenda. Stina also provides custom graphics or templates for your meetings, to orient and engage your group, and/or allow you to “fill in the blank” to be the graphic facilitator yourself. Every meeting includes materials, physical paper charts produced and high resolution digital photos of the outcome.
Graphic Recording Services Details:
Pre-Meeting:
Design Stage: Stina will work with her client to inform the design of the meeting process to deliver maximum visual learning, increase creative thinking and participation, and capture the knowledge and commitment generated. This will occur during 2-3 phone meetings leading up to the event. During these calls she will also receive any info on the logistics of the room and supplies needed.
Meeting Prep: If it is determined that graphic templates are required, Stina will create custom graphic templates to support the meeting.
Meeting Day:
Graphic Recording
Stina will arrive 1 hour early to set up the room, check in with the client, greet participants, answer any questions about why there is large blank paper on the walls. She will create live large scale graphics (2′x3′ up to 3.5′x12′) of the meeting dialogue/outcomes.
Types of Graphic Recording:
This could include sitting to draw a 2′x3′ graphic of a keynote (so as not to distract the group with the drawing “show”) and then post it above the coffee area for participants to revisit throughout the day. Larger graphic records (on the wall) include panels, history maps, context maps, story sharing, vision journeys, world cafe’s, strategic plans etc. All materials Stina produces at the meetings belong to the client and are rolled up, labeled and given to the client on-site.
Stina takes high resolution photographs of her work as it unfolds during meeting day, and can also take photos of the participants and facilitators as they work, if requested.
Post-Meeting:
Stina will clean up and email these photos to the client within 1-2 weeks of the meeting for the clients’ use. Sometimes she will request the use of the images for future client education or self promotion.
You come away with: Teams infused with fresh energy, highly engaging visuals that both serve to anchor the memory of the group and are ready to be used to articulate complex messages to staff and constituents. This is not marketing… this is visual communication. It turns out most of us learn *best* with visuals incorporated into our learning.
Stina’s Training:
Stina trained in Graphic Recording/Facilitation with Christina Merkley, (who worked with Dave Sibbett for 15 years) shift-it-coach.com in 2008, and began offering her services in Vancouver building live-recording skills in all kinds of groups. Today, she provides this professional service to a wide variety of clients. Stina’s Graphic Recording/Facilitation integrates deep listening, objectively drawing concepts and capturing the energy of the meeting in a visual form, to provide her clients with a high quality product and a better meeting. Stina has 13+ years as a graphic designer and illustrator, communications and marketing consultant and business owner. She offers graphic tools to open new energy, organization and creativity for her clients and community, for individuals, groups or large events.
See below for examples. Contact Stina today to chat about your meeting/project/event, 604-612-8563 or email stinaillustrates at gmail.com
There are many names for this dynamic meeting tool, and it has a long history, starting in the 1970′s with a small group of practitioners. Very quickly, in summary: In 1977, Dave Sibbet started a consulting firm with his trademarked graphical system as a primary focus (now called grove.com.) At about the same time, an architect named Joe Brunon developed a similar graphic approach for working with groups, called Generative Graphics. “Geoff Ball, in the early 1980s, gave a number of workshops on graphic facilitation, including several at the National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution.” (Mediate.com) And the industry was born…
Geoff Ball defines Graphic Facilitation as “a type of “explicit group memory” – a way of capturing the thoughts of group members in real time and making those thoughts available to the whole group. (Mediate.com)
