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.

Attendees will learn:
	Practical methods facilitators and individuals interested in change management can use
	Training in a specific image shift tool

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.

	David Sibbet will be recording Virginia's session. David have been graphically recording for over 30 years and as been a leader in professionalizing graphic facilitation through his company The Grove Consultants International. He’s been attending IFVP since 1998, two years after it started.
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