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Visual Facilitation: How to use drawing and imagination to live a bold, playful and meaningful life
This book was born from a dream
The dream that all people in the world can and dare to use drawing again as a tool for thinking and communicating. At the heart of the book is the technique of visual facilitation, which is the use of shapes, symbols, and keywords to create meaning. It is a technique that relies on our imagination and is based on simple drawing and writing.
Visual facilitation is the key to deep thinking, reasoning, understanding and communicating.
One of the biggest challenges in today’s society is that technology does so much for us. It’s like we don’t have to think deeply or look into each other’s eyes anymore. In an increasingly digital and visual world, we are becoming apathetic consumers. We don’t have to remember so many things anymore; we don’t have to create anymore. But the human brain is designed for both thinking and creating – the brain needs to make an effort just as the body needs to exercise. We have to leave the screens and meet face to face, and be creative.
This book also talks about being human.
It explains why drawing and imagination are so important to us and how to use them to rediscover and nurture the courage and playfulness we have to live a meaningful life.
Having learned, practiced, researched and taught visual facilitation for more than a decade, I am increasingly convinced that this technique can help us solve many of today’s challenges in education, mental health and innovation. I believe that even if it fails to save the entire world, it will definitely save some people, companies and initiatives. With this book, I want to show you why I think so.
The book is written for everyone who wants to bring more courage and playfulness into their lives. This is for you if you dream of a more meaningful life. You can find out here what it means that we all can draw and how simple drawing can help improve our lives. In addition, you will learn a specific technique that will help you be a better thinker, planner, and doer.
This book offers something for every reader. Both for someone hearing about visual facilitation for the first time and for someone already a long-time practitioner. I’ve built it up through exercises, from learning the ABCs to creating more complex structures. However, all of this is connected by popular scientific approaches to various topics, which form the basis of visual facilitation and ways to use it. At the same time, this book is suitable for self-development, self-help, for boosting creativity, learning, teaching, and cooperation. The topics covered here are relevant for everyone, whether you want to use them with visual facilitation or not.
The dream that all people in the world can and dare to use drawing again as a tool for thinking and communicating. At the heart of the book is the technique of visual facilitation, which is the use of shapes, symbols, and keywords to create meaning. It is a technique that relies on our imagination and is based on simple drawing and writing.
Visual facilitation is the key to deep thinking, reasoning, understanding and communicating.
One of the biggest challenges in today’s society is that technology does so much for us. It’s like we don’t have to think deeply or look into each other’s eyes anymore. In an increasingly digital and visual world, we are becoming apathetic consumers. We don’t have to remember so many things anymore; we don’t have to create anymore. But the human brain is designed for both thinking and creating – the brain needs to make an effort just as the body needs to exercise. We have to leave the screens and meet face to face, and be creative.
This book also talks about being human.
It explains why drawing and imagination are so important to us and how to use them to rediscover and nurture the courage and playfulness we have to live a meaningful life.
Having learned, practiced, researched and taught visual facilitation for more than a decade, I am increasingly convinced that this technique can help us solve many of today’s challenges in education, mental health and innovation. I believe that even if it fails to save the entire world, it will definitely save some people, companies and initiatives. With this book, I want to show you why I think so.
The book is written for everyone who wants to bring more courage and playfulness into their lives. This is for you if you dream of a more meaningful life. You can find out here what it means that we all can draw and how simple drawing can help improve our lives. In addition, you will learn a specific technique that will help you be a better thinker, planner, and doer.
This book offers something for every reader. Both for someone hearing about visual facilitation for the first time and for someone already a long-time practitioner. I’ve built it up through exercises, from learning the ABCs to creating more complex structures. However, all of this is connected by popular scientific approaches to various topics, which form the basis of visual facilitation and ways to use it. At the same time, this book is suitable for self-development, self-help, for boosting creativity, learning, teaching, and cooperation. The topics covered here are relevant for everyone, whether you want to use them with visual facilitation or not.
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2024
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About the author
Kati Orav
4 books1 followerI am a visual practitioner and teacher passionate about thinking with a pencil. Visual facilitation helps us think deeply and see the big picture, which means being more successful in learning, collaborating, leading, and whatever else life takes us.
I dream of a world where everyone can and dares to use drawing again as a tool for thinking and communication. Drawing and imagination are part of being human and help us rediscover and maintain the courage and playfulness to live meaningful lives. Therefore, I have made it my mission to promote the field of visual practices and bring it to as many people as possible.
With visual facilitation, I help people regain faith in their creative abilities to be bold and playful (self) leaders and to bring playful cooperation and bold leadership into organizations. I help people understand complex information and make thoughts and conversations visible.
I dream of a world where everyone can and dares to use drawing again as a tool for thinking and communication. Drawing and imagination are part of being human and help us rediscover and maintain the courage and playfulness to live meaningful lives. Therefore, I have made it my mission to promote the field of visual practices and bring it to as many people as possible.
With visual facilitation, I help people regain faith in their creative abilities to be bold and playful (self) leaders and to bring playful cooperation and bold leadership into organizations. I help people understand complex information and make thoughts and conversations visible.
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