Wednesday,
August 6, 2008
Professional Development
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Breakfast
& Registration
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Welcome
from IFVP President Rob Benn
Conference Opener
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Break |
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Graphic
Recording 101
Brandy Agerbeck & Lynn Carruthers
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Using
Art to Stimulate the Imagination: Case Studies from the Ancient
Greeks
Dr. Diane Cline
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Free
Networking Time |
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Lunch
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Graphic Recording 101 continued
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Clarifying
& Appreciating what Visual Practitioners bring to the World
Susan Kelly
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Free
Networking Time
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Day
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Dinner around
Chicago
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Chicago Pizza?
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Sushi?
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Ethiopian?
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Irish?
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Polish?
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Thai?
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Indian?
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Mexican?
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Soul
Food?
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Vegetarian?
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Thursday,
August 7, 2008
Tools: Processes and Technology
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Breakfast |
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Membership
Annual Meeting, 8:00-8:45,
working breakfast for members |
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Welcome
& Notes |
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Facilitating
Three Dimensional Image Making
John Ward
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more > |
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Break |
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Breakout 1,
Process focus
The Tools We Use: Visual Metaphors and Narrative Analysis
Robert
W. Barner, Ph.D
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more >
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Breakout 2,
Technology Focus
The 2008 Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies
Rachel S. Smith
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more >
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Lunch
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Convene
for Afternoon Open Interest Space
Exploring new tools and processes for Visual Practitioners |
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Report
Out from Groups
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Day
Closing |
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Sponsored
by IFVP Member Christine
Valenza:
Jam and Cash Bar Happy Hour
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Friday, August 8, 2008
People
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Breakfast
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Welcome
& Notes |
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Cultural
Dimensions in Visual Representations
Regina Rowland & Tomi Nagai-Rothe
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Break |
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Breakout 1
Building Capacity to Tackle Complex Challenges: A visual
approach to collective meaningmaking and action
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
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more >
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Breakout 2
Visual Thinking Tools for Change Management
Virginia Hamilton
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Lunch
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Convene
for Afternoon Open Interest Space
Exploring the types of people we as Visual Practitioners
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Conference
Closing, The
Tipping Point
Nancy Margulies & Julie
Gieseke
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Closing
Remarks from President Rob Benn |
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Day
1, Professional Development
Wednesday, August 6th, 10:30 AM
to 4:30
Graphic Recording 101
Brandy Agerbeck, graphic facilitator,
Loosetooth.com
& Lynn Carruthers,
graphic recorder, Global Business Network
Brandy
Agerbeck and Lynn Carruthers are back with an updated version of their
day-long comprehensive look into the wonderful world of capturing
big ideas on big sheets of paper. Designed for all levels of skill
and experience, GR101 v.2 provides a basic understanding of the craft,
the tools and techniques, with real life stories and 'aha!' moments
presented by two practitioners with very different working styles
and clientele. Graphic Recording 101 was designed for beginners and
as a great refresher for seasoned recorders who want to get back to
basics. GR 101 v.1 was a big success at last
year's IFVP annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with rave
reviews from people who had never touched marker to paper and seasoned
recorders alike. Spaces are limited to 30 so sign up soon!
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Graphic
facilitator Brandy Agerbeck, Loosetooth.com,
creates conceptual maps of conversations. Since 1996, her drawing
and thinking skills have facilitated groups in finding clarity
and understanding their work. Brandys favorite work as
a graphic facilitator is with corporate clients with big, complex,
abstract issues and messy conversations. Her
work tends to be very diagrammatic and colorful.
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Lynn
Carruthers has been the in-house graphic recorder at Global
Business Network for 6 years. "Graphic Recording
combines all the things I'm best at: writing neatly and
clearly, listening intently, lots of color, making messes with
art supplies, and being involved with a group - though comfortably
to the side.
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Wednesday, August 6th, 10:30 AM
to Noon, Breakout 1
Using Art to Stimulate the Imagination: Case Studies
from the Ancient Greeks
Dr. Diane Cline,
Graphic Recorder and Thinking Partner, Over
The Horizon Consulting LLC
The ancient Greeks, who were
very aware of the power of viewing, used artwork as a means of stimulating
the imagination in order to find their "flow," which would
lead them to a higher order of thinking. Diane Cline will take the
audience through case studies of vase paintings from Ancient Greece
that will explore the similarities of Ancient Greek communication
forms to today's graphic recording.
| Attendees
will learn: |
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Graphic Recording
take-away lesson: Less truly is more |
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Visual imagery as
a catalyst for meaningful conversation |
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Sensory stimulation
through color, light, musical sounds, fragrances, and tastes is
a catalyst for creative thinking |
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Diane
Cline holds a B.A. in Classics from Stanford University
and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department
of Art and Archaeology. She has excavated in Israel, Greece,
and Cyprus. She taught Greek and Roman History and Archaeology
for 13 years, winning tenure in the History Department at California
State University Fresno, and then in the Classics Department
at the University of Cincinnati. After nearly 5 years of serving
as a civilian in the DoD after 9/1, she has started her own
consulting firm and teaches Greek and Roman civilization courses
at the George Washington University.
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Emily
Shepard will be recording Diane's session. Emily attended
her first IFVP Conference in 1999. She's been on the conference
planning team multiple times, and so tips her hat to this year's
excellent team!
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Clarifying
& Appreciating what Visual Practitioners bring to the World
Susan Kelly
Description to come...
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Avril
Orloff will be recording Susan's session. Avril is
a new member to the IFVP and will be joining us in Chicago for
her first IFVP conference.
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WEDNESDAY
EVENING, conference organizers are planning 'Dine Around
Chicago' - local Chicago friends of Brandy's will be guiding you and
a small group of like-minded individuals to your restaurant of choice
where you will be able to purchase your evening meal and visit with
each other. (Restaurant options will be posted Wednesday morning)

Day
2, Tools: Processes & Technology
Thursday, August 7, 2008 from 9am to 10:30am
Facilitating Three Dimensional Image Making
John Ward, Visual Thinker, Many Minds, Breakthrough Facilitation
Most people express themselves
far more spontaneously and skillfully in three dimensions than two.
To draw well you have to flatten out your experience. A facilitator
who wants to involve clients in the process of image making should
consider leading them spatially. Everyone who feels an idea bubbling
up in their mind waves their hands about and enthusiastically, unselfconsciously,
rearranges the silverware on the table to explain themselves. This
is pre-graphic kinesthetic modeling. It is also pre-verbal; and it
is a great way to draw out original ideas in individuals and groups.
Using this process most people can discover and articulate concepts
they didn't know they had. They can fashion images and ideas that
are hidden behind intellectual blocks, business as usual chatter,
and social protocols.
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Hear stories
about the evolution and applications of Kinesthetic Modeling (KM) |
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Observe
a spontaneous demonstration of KM. |
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Have plenty
of opportunity to dialog with John about how KM can be applied
to visual practice. |
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John
Ward has been an active participant in IFVP conferences
for over 10 years. He is a graphic facilitator who embraces
a variety of arts based methods to help people in organizations
think and work better together. His clientele includes Fortune
500 corporations, the US Government, numerous non-profits and
small businesses. His recent work has focused on leadership
development and the cultivation of visual literacy. This year,
John and his wife Suzanne da Rosa, have moved to a home they
built in San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico.
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Rob
Benn will be recording John's session. Rob joined us
in IFVP conferences in 2001 and is currently our Board President.
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008,
11:00 am - 12:30pm, Breakout 1
The Tools We
Use: Visual Metaphors and Narrative Analysis
Robert W. Barner, Ph.D, Professor, Dispute Resolution and Counseling,
Southern Methodist University
Using group self-generated
metaphors as a tool for assessing team and organizational change:
The idea behind this topic is that much of what has been written and
taught on the subject of visual facilitation is based on the idea
of having a third-party facilitator construct visual images or metaphors
to help teams envision goals, needs, and potential constraints. What
happens when team members are encouraged to work together to arrive
at a visual metaphor that gives voice to their needs and concerns?
A team's iterative development of a metaphor can be treated as a type
of "group narrative" which tells the story of how the team
discovers its collective voice. This approach has power in helping
teams express issues or concerns that they would otherwise have difficulty
expressing.
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When it
is important to use visual metaphors as a facilitation tool |
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The unique
perspectives provided by the use of visual metaphors |
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How to
interpret visual metaphors |
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Robert
Barner holds the position of Associate Director of Executive
Education and Lecturer with Southern Methodist University's
Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution and Counseling., within
the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.
He is the author of five business texts, which have been translated
into German, Norwegian, and Estonian, and has been a contributor
to seven other texts, including The Handbook of Adult Development
and Learning (2006, Carol Hoare, Ed.; Oxford University Press).
His articles have appeared in such journals as Team Performance
Management, Career Development International, The OD Practitioner,
and The Journal of Management Development.
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Nick
Payne will be recording Robert's session. Nick became
a IFVP member in 2006 and joined us in Santa Fe last year.
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008,
11:00 am - 12:30pm, Breakout 2
The 2008 Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies
Rachel S. Smith, New Media Consortium
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New
Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that
seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have
considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression
within higher education. This session will introduce the six technologies
covered in the 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in the series. Participants
will explore examples in each category and contribute to the ongoing
Call to Scholarship with their own ideas and suggestions. The 2008
Horizon Report is available online at no cost at http://horizon.nmc.org.
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The 6
emerging technologies identified in this year's report |
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Explore
examples in each category |
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How to
contribute to the ongoing Call to Scholarship |
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Rachel
S. Smith is the Vice President, NMC Services for the New
Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of more
than 260 world-class universities, colleges, museums, research
centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies
to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative
expression. She is recognized for her work in making new technologies
approachable for higher education faculty and staff through talks,
trainings, and written materials. A specialist in project coordination,
user interface design, and visual facilitation, Rachel leads the
NMC's fee-based services units, directs the NMC's involvement
in projects such as the open source Pachyderm project, and directs
all NMC internal and external publications. She serves as an interorganizational
liaison, bringing together NMC members from around the globe to
develop new projects. Rachel authors instructional materials,
guides, and monographs on the creative and technical aspects of
teaching with technology.
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Jim
Nuttle will be recording Rachel's session. Jim joined
the IFVP this year and we welcome Jim to his first IFVP conference
this August.
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THURSDAY
EVENING,
IFVP Member
Christine Valenza is generously sponsoring a room at the Club
Quarters Hotel where conference organizers are planning this year's
'Graphics Jam and Cash Bar Happy Hour' - at the end of the conference
day on Thursday, Rob Benn, IFVP President, will be inviting all conference
participants across the street to the Club Quarters Hotel where the
annual 'Graphics Jam event' will take place for one hour followed
by a cash bar 'Happy Hour' time to visit, network, exchange business
cards and make plans with friends (old and new) for dinner. There
is an Italian Restaurant on street level of the Hotel for ease of
decision-making OR folks are invited to checkout their handy-dandy
'Visitor's Guide to Chicago' booklets in their conference package
for more ideas.


Day
3, People
Friday, August 8, 2008 from
9:00 to 10:30am
Cultural Dimensions in Visual Representations
Tomi Nagai-Rothe, Senior
Consultant, The Grove
Consultants International
& Regina Rowland, MGD, MPNLP, PhD (ABD)
Thinking big
includes working globally and across cultures. This requires growing
and nurturing cultural sensitivity in the work we do as visual practitioners.
This session is framed around four leading questions the participants
can keep in mind during their work with diverse audiences: Audience
Analysis; Needs Analysis; Methods Analysis; Involvement of Participants.
This session is designed to include a short intro, group practice
sessions, and large-group call out.
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Information
and resources for learning about cultural dimensions and their
relevance to visual facilitation |
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Practice
in culturally sensitive ways of visual mapping |
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Reflective
question frame to keep in mind when approaching projects with
culturally diverse participants |
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Both
Tomi and Regina
are biculturals who work internationally as consultants, facilitators,
and visual practitioners. They both have been exploring options
for culturally sensitive visual facilitation. Tomi has lived and
worked in Japan and was deeply involved in the development of
Globalwork: Bridging Distance, Culture and Time (Jossey-Bass).
She has worked with clients in India and South Africa and is currently
interested in bringing cultural awareness to intra-national work
settings where cultural diversity is largely unseen. Regina just
completed her dissertation research bringing together the disciplines
of intercultural communication and visual communication through
group dialogue,collaborative mapping and interactive graphic facilitation.
Her experience includes facilitating in the Middle East, Africa,
East Asia, and Europe, as well as teaching at one of the most
diverse campuses in the country, City College of San Francisco. |
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Bruce
Flye will be recording Tomi and Regina's session. Bruce
joined the IFVP in 2007 and contributes to this year's conference
by organizing our speakers.
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Friday,
August 8, 2008, 11:00 am- 12:30pm
Building
Capacity to Tackle Complex Challenges: A visual approach to collective
meaningmaking and action
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
In an increasing complex
work co-created clarity is needed in order to act in a meaningful
way. As visual practitioners we have a unique contribution to many
of these present day challenges. One specific challenge: The Climate
Changes - is becoming increasingly relevant to find "shared pictures"
and understanding.
This session focuses on
what we in the visual community can do / must do with our skills.
The presentation includes concrete examples of work done in Europe
and specific invitation from international stakeholders. The session
is an highly interactive workshop.
Following cases will be
introduced:
Working towards a global Climate Agreement in Copenhagen (the next
Kyoto Protocol).
Bigger Picture is involved in building a visual language and
facilitation training using visual techniques and tools which can
support the process leading up to the COP 15 in Copenhagen Nov 2009.
Bigger Picture has been involved in the Tällberg Forum
a recent conference
Bigger Picture is in the process of designing community tools
to take action.
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Why visuals
play a key role to finding the solutions to complex challenges. |
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Who are
already working intensely with to tackle present complex challenges
and why they need the visual community to support their work. |
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How
you - in your family, local community, organization/ business
and country - can build a visual language to address complex challenges.
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Ole
Qvist-Sørensen
In 2003, I founded Bigger Picture - a Scandinavian based consulting
company. BP provides visual design, learning and dialogue tools,
training and consulting services enabling ongoing sustainable
organisational and personal change.
Presently
working with change projects in Copenhagen Climate Council,
Novozymes (R&D), Vestas (P&O) and Shell (Complex Challenges
Group).
Normally
I do not write this
but in this context it is probably
suitable: I believe visual language, visual thinking and graphic
facilitation is more needed than ever in an increasingly complex
world.
I consider
it my mission to accelerate the constructive use of visual language,
thinking, communication and facilitation in all sectors of society.
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Brandy
Agerbeck will be recording Ole's session. Brandy started
attending IFVP conferences in 2000. She is currently the Ex-Officio
board member.
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Friday, August 8, 2008,
11:00 am- 12:30pm
Visual
Thinking Tools for Change Management
Virginia Hamilton, Conversations
Waiting to Happen
People tightly hold images
of themselves and their organizations in ways that can slow down or
even stop change. By using visual tools to explicitly uncover these
images and their underlying values, we can more easily help individuals
and groups change their behavior. Images have an extraordinary power
in communication and facilitation because they instantly reveal relationships
while tapping into memory. They are key to releasing intention and
will.
This session will focus on the use of visual tools in working with
groups to accelerate change. Participants will review how to use images
to tap into right brain thinking and into a bias for action. They
will learn how change is deeply rooted to visual thinking, and how
image shifts are at the heart of individual and organizational change.
Participants will draw on a personal behavior they want to change,
and learn a method to uncover images and the values and messages that
hold these images in place and methods for creating new images. This
highly interactive session will include some theory, training in the
use of a specific method/tool, drawing and lots of interaction with
others.
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will learn: |
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Practical
methods facilitators and individuals interested in change management
can use |
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Training
in a specific image shift tool |
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Virginia
Hamilton has over 20 years of facilitation experience,
working with groups in strategic planning, change management,
and large scale system change. She works with post cards, images,
drawing, and Technology of Participation tools as key
elements of her methods and practice. She has worked with groups
throughout the United States and is based in California.
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Friday, August 8, 2008 from 3:30 to 4:30pm
The Tipping Point
Nancy Margulies, Mindscapes
& Julie Gieseke, map
the mind
In the final session of the
conference Nancy and Julie will lead a highly interactive game that
will enable us to identify the ways in which the future of our profession
might evolve or "Tip" to become more widespread, more integrated
into group experiences, have a greater impact on our world. We will
explore the possibilities and then deepen the exploration via small
group conversation and group graphics. The result will be a vision
of our possible future and a sense of next steps for each of us.
| Attendees
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Understand the concept
and potential of "Tipping Points" |
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Uncover together
the ways in which our profession can meet the needs of the world. |
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Explore
specific actions we can take to grow our careers and move closer
to a desired future. |
Related links:
Tipping_Point
on Wikipedia
The_Tipping_Point_(book)
on Wikipedia
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Nancy
developed her own style of graphic recording (Mindscaping) in
the mid 1980's and has since worked in corporations and communities
worldwide. She authored several books on the subject and now teaches
graphic recording for companies such as Google and HP. She is
one of the original developers of The World Café hosts
Cafés on topics such as Climate Change and Multigenerational
Collaboration. |
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Julie
is a graduate student in Organizational Management and Development
at the Fielding Graduate University. She was introduced to visual
mapping two years ago and has since transitioned full-time into
a professional practice. She is compelled to explore the ways
in which visual mapping can reach an even broader market.
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Friday, August 8, 2008
from 4:30 to 5:00pm
Conference Closing
Rob Benn

FRIDAY
EVENING, many of us MAY be planning on staying in
Chicago on Friday night. That's right! Chicago on a Friday Night!!
Once we've packed up the conference at the Summit, we can turn our
attention to deciding if we'd like to do something as a group
dining?
dancing? other?