54 - Cornel Stefanache

Sunni Brown and Dave Mastronardi

Listen to this special episode where we are lucky interview the two legends while they are sitting in the same physical room talking about facilitation and what makes it so tricky and beautiful, how facilitation changed in the post-covid era. Can Gamestorming work offline? :D Can you do hybrid workshops? How to prepare for when something goes wrong during a workshop? Tune in to get inspired from the two stars of facilitation, both in physical and remote environments.

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With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

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Sunni Brown

Sunni Brown is a social entrepreneur who has been named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company.

She is the best-selling author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution, a keynote speaker, expert meeting facilitator, book coach, and dedicated Zen student.

Her TED Talk has drawn more than 1.6 million views and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and WIRED, as well as being featured twice on CBS Sunday Morning and on The TODAY Show.

Her forthcoming book is called Being Confident: In Any Situation and When it Matters Most.

Watch the TED talk and learn more about Sunni's work on her website and Instagram account:

https://youtu.be/7fx0QcHyrFk 

https://sunnibrown.com/

https://www.instagram.com/deepselfdesign/

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

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Draw to change your life and grow

We spoke about Patti's performance artist background, how drawing is essential but it must not be beautiful and can just be basic to be effective, how pictures can inspire change in our life via small daily steps, how ugly fonts (and maybe ugly pictures too) attract more attention, why disruption and turmoil can be good for your development, how to get off the hook with having to draw very as an artist, how to deal with limiting beliefs and much more.

Here is the link to Patti's TED talk 'Draw Your Future' - https://youtu.be/zESeeaFDVSw In that video you can find the description of the '3 Bold Steps' visual template.

Patti  Dobrowolski

Patti Dobrowolski is a nationally acclaimed comic performer, high-performance business consultant, 3-time TEDx speaker, and the author of 9 Tips to Up Your Creative Genius and Drawing Solutions: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life.

Patti works with teams at all levels to up their creative genius and capture their vision and strategy into huge, beautiful visuals with everyone from small business owners to global clients Nike, Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon and the Gates Foundation, and S/MB owners. She is known for her high energy, quick wit, and commitment to helping people and businesses achieve their goals.

Check out Patti's website to learn more about her work:  

https://www.upyourcreativegenius.com/ 

and her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/upyourcreativegenius/ 

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

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Innovation

We spoke about innovation and its challenges and how visual thinking can help, we spoke about facilitation and the method of the world cafe, the novelty of visual thinking and whether it is going to wear off over time or is it here to stay, and how we could innovate in the field of visual thinking itself. We have mentioned the Squiggle Bird exercise that is credited to Chris Glynn, find the mention here: https://gamestorming.com/squiggle-birds/ 

Summer Koide

Summer Koide is a retail, innovation, and technology leader specializing in graphic recording and visual facilitation. Currently, Summer leads a team of innovators and design thinkers in a large Fortune 50 retailer in the US.  She uses her love of clear communication and visual skills to create group alignment and energize teams and individuals through creative and fulfilling workshop experiences.

Find more about Summer on her Linkedin  profile  https://www.linkedin.com/in/summer/ 

and her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/letssummerize 

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

https://www.udemy.com/course/visual-thinking-and-sketchnoting-boot-camp/?

Virtual Collaboration

Covid pandemics saw a lot of people in shock trying to figure out how to work remotely and what does it take to solve complex problems collaborating virtually. In this episode, Andres Bayertz explores the aspects of virtual collaboration and shares his secrets of effective collaboration with impact in the virtual setting. Tune in to get inspired and learn a thing or two to improve the way you communicate and collaborate when working from home.

Andres Bayertz

It is a great privilege to find your “WHY” in your work. This has happened to Andres early in his consulting career when he joined the Master's Program: “Leadership in Digital Communication” at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Arts in Berlin.

There, he pushed his visual facilitation skills and also transferred the processes to the virtual environment where he discovered the great possibilities within virtual events and workshops. This journey has led to a successful Master's Thesis in the discipline of collaborative sensemaking and to a lot of new business in remotely facilitated events.

The story has only just begun. The great opportunities for visual facilitation in the online world will grow extensively. It is a skill that promises employability in our VUCA future since it covers all the great benefits of creative problem solving, effective communication, and unique forms of expression.

Get in contact and follow Andres Bayertz on LinkedIn to stay tuned about what comes next.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/f-andres-bayertz-8a6a8b112/ 

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

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Graphic Facilitation in Formal Education

This episode is an announcement of the first-ever course on graphic facilitation as formal education. Jimi Holstebro has been working for years to introduce the skill into the program for bachelor in pedagogy. Together with Mia Søiberg and Frank Høedt, they have made a dream come true - visual thinking is officially taught in a university! Read more about the course here: https://hoedtholstebro.dk/uddannelse/ The first course starts after the summer break later in this year. We will talk about Jimi's journey and learn more about his ideas about how this big event for the community of visual thinkers is going to affect the world. Tune in!

Jimi Holstebro

Jimi is from the northern parts of Denmark but is now situated in Viborg with his wife, their three kids, dog, and cat.

For the past eight years, Jimi has been working full time as a Visual Storyteller, filling his days with visual recordings, illustrating strategies/visions, making explainer videos, and making fine art. Jimi has with his partner Frank Høedt the company HoedtHolstebro (https://hoedtholstebro.dk/), where those skills are set to use.

Before that Jimi worked 10 years with management in educational institutions for kids and youth with cognitive disabilities.

He comes from a background in the fine and conceptual arts. Has a Master of Fine Arts from DJK a Master of Communications from RUC, a bachelor in management, and a diploma as a trained process facilitator.

Competencies that Jimi has been attuning in the pursuit of making Visual Facilitation common knowledge. A goal that now has been reached with the coming of Visual Facilitation as a diploma as part of the pedagogic bachelor education in the established educational system in Denmark.

Find more about Jimi on his website https://jimiholstebro.dk/

and follow his activity on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimiholstebro/

https://www.instagram.com/hoedtholstebro/

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

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Linguist's Perspective on Drawing

In this episode, we are exploring visual thinking and drawing in particular from the scientific point of view - Dr. Neil Cohn helps us use insights from linguistics and cognitive science to demystify misconceptions about drawing. Such misconceptions like drawing is rooted in talent, being a copycat is bad and similar - all of these are brilliantly debunked by Neil. Neil is very passionate and knowledgeable about comics and how they work and in his recent book he is challenging the idea of the universality of comics understanding and we talk about that too. Tune in to indulge your inner nerd!

Dr. Neil Cohn

Neil Cohn Ph.D. is an American cognitive scientist internationally recognized for his pioneering research on the relationship between visual communication and language.

He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology at Tufts University, and he is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

Having originally started working for Image Comics as a teenager, his creative work includes illustrating We the People (with Thom Hartmann, 2004), a non-fiction graphic novel about American history and politics.

His academic monograph, The Visual Language of Comics (Bloomsbury, 2013), introduced a broad framework for studying the cognition of drawing and comics, and Who Understands Comics? (Bloomsbury, 2020) integrated 40 years of disparate scientific research to challenge conventional knowledge about the “universality” of sequential image comprehension.

His theories provided the foundation for BBC News Labs’ automatically generated news comics, and several of his proposed emoji will be integrated into keyboards in 2021.

He is on Twitter at @visual_linguist, and his work can be found on his website, www.visuallanguagelab.com 

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

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Drawify - The Visual Storytelling Platform

https://drawify.com/ is a web-based platform for visual storytellers and it allows its users to tell their unique stories by weaving together drawings contributed by numerous visual practitioners - the drawifiers. I had the pleasure to interview Axelle Vanquaillie - one of the Drawify founders and we spoke about what problem does this platform promise to solve, who are its users, and what are plans and challenges that the product team is dealing with at the moment.

Axelle Vanquaillie

Hi, Nice to meet you. I’m Axelle, living in Belgium but feeling at home pretty much anywhere in the world. My visual story started in 2010. I had been an HR and communications professional for 18 years when I discovered the power of (live) visual storytelling for corporate purposes. Since then, I’ve been traveling around the world helping companies to translate their stories into drawings. I love to combine my passion for drawing with my strategic skills. In an age of information overload, my mission is to create drawings that have the almost magical capacity to clarify the most complex strategic content in a way that transforms the viewer’s perspective.

My mission is to enable anyone in the world to convey a message with a drawing, which has driven me to write a book, ‘Start to draw’. For those who prefer not to draw themselves, I founded Drawify in 2020.

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

In this episode, Tanya Gadsby of Fuselight Creative introduces us to how she uses augmented reality and virtual reality to create immersive experiences for her clients and explore the potential of the technology to communicate ideas and tell stories. Listen to the episode in full and find out how to get a taste of augmented reality to experiment with it.

Tanya Gadsby

Tanya Gadsby is the founder of Fuselight (https://thefuselight.com), a graphic facilitation & animation company. She has sixteen years of experience working in event design and audience engagement. Tanya specializes in interactive use of graphic facilitation & graphic recording to deepen dialogue and understanding, and is passionate about exploring innovative uses of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in conjunction with graphic facilitation. 

Tanya has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Victoria, and a certificate in public engagement from the International Association of Public Participation.

Learn more about AR & VR!

How AR and Graphic Facilitation can work together:  https://thefuselight.com/augmented-reality-graphic-recording/

Follow Fuselight online:

Website: https://thefuselight.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/thefuselight

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefuselight

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thefuselight-tanya-gadsby/ 

Apps mentioned in this episode, to get a “taste” of AR / VR:

MergeCube: https://wakelet.com/wake/dfe475a9-8b99-4b93-aba2-40924fc9b47a

World Brush: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/world-brush/id1277410449
LightSpace AR Painting: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lightspace-3d-painting-in-ar/id1274597316 

WarpAR: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/warpar/id1557413470

Adobe Aero: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/aero.html

Virtual Meeting Environment: https://Spatial.io 

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

You can sign up for the course here:

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Visual Thinking  Luftwaffe Style

In this episode, we are exploring Lars Bartschat's journey from a serviceman with the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force to a visual thinker in the defense industry and his learning from his years of military service. Lars shares how the OODA loop can be applied anywhere tells us about how visual thinking is in fact an integrated practice in the military and his war stories of applying visual thinking in the collaborative context.

Lars Bartschat

Lars is a visual thinker with a very diverse background. After finishing his training as an IT specialist he joined the German Air Force as an officer candidate. He acquired his diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich. During his time in the Air Force, his jobs were platoon leader, teacher, and air space manager, always working in multi-national settings.

Leaving the military as Captain (retired) and having acquired his MBA at the University of Muenster, he joined the defense industry in Germany, where he took up a job as program manager and is now employing visual thinking tools in various settings: analyzing and developing business strategies, facilitating workshops or the development of concepts for new products and services. Lars is the co-author of the lernOS Sketchnoting guide, available in English and German as an open-source (CC-BY) self-organized way into visual thinking and sketchnoting.

His side business is a niche consulting agency where he teaches the idea of visual thinking or acts as a visual consultant.

You can contact Lars via his website at https://lars-bartschat.de (German), LinkedIn, or Email.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-bartschat/

lars@lars-bartschat.de 

http://lernos-sketchnoting.de/ (German guide)

http://lernos-sketchnoting.org/ (English guide)

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This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!

With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.

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