Knowledge walls aren’t just about creating a beautiful artifact. They are also research tools. Learn how we used knowledge walls to support the Better Bus initiative to improve Metrobus for the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region.

Taking the risk to start a company is a feat few are fully equipped for. Any business owner knows that the first few years in business are anything but glamorous. Building a successful business takes time, lessons learned, and most importantly, enormous growth as a business owner. In this interview with Doug Noll, Lauren Green shares the lessons she’s learned since starting her business.

In this episode of Beltway Broadcast, your Metro DC Chapter of ATD hosts Lauren Green. Lauren shares how to capture key insights and takeaways during meetings and events with words and images and discusses the benefits of creating an illustrative record of the session.

Drawing as an adult is different than as a kid or an artist. Drawing as an adult can, of course, be something that you do just for fun, but it can also be purposeful and valuable in the workplace.

Facilitators are not illustrators, nor do they need to be; however, basic drawing skills are an essential tool to be able to quickly draw models and create engaging and informative meeting visuals.

Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. Energizers should always have a purpose, whether building connections, testing the technology or modeling the behavior.

In this episode of Control the Room, Lauren Green joined Douglas Ferguson to discuss her facilitation journey, incorporating movement into meetings and the importance of facilitation training for leaders.

I hear it all the time. What’s the difference between graphic recording and graphic facilitation? There’s a lot of industry debate about this term, but no one is more qualified to make this distinction than David Sibbet.

Coffee Chats are an opportunity to practice virtual facilitation and connect with the facilitation community during the transition to online meetings. Almost by accident, it became an excellent tool for marketing our offers and workshopping new content.

Mural (and Miro) take time to feel comfortable with. We’re not saying don’t use it, we’re saying use it with intention. Start with your design and your participants in mind.

During this podcast “Meetings, Movement, and Change”, Joran, Geoffrey and Lauren belly laugh their way through early hybrid meeting facilitation experiences, the trials of a Pandemic year and bringing movement into facilitation.

During this podcast, Emily and Lauren discuss how Lauren got started in the field of visual facilitation, her tips for receiving feedback, the tools she uses, and what inspires her.

In this episode, we discuss how facilitators can become more confident in the nascent world of virtual facilitation, how dance and facilitation have more in common than many would think, and why we should strive for silence, not conversation.

Facilitating online is different but it doesn't have to be worse. In this 18 minutes "campfire" session, we breakdown virtual facilitation essentials.

Work with people the way they are, not as the way we wish them to be. Instead of trying to control how people act, turn attention to the structure of the meeting.

SessionLab takes the guesswork out of manipulating times and blocks of content to create an easy-to-follow agenda for facilitating virtually online or in person.

During this 90 minute session held live on October 16, 2020, we practiced with virtual visual templates to support strategic communications.

You don't have to be an expert in communications planning to remind your groups to take this key step in informing all who are impacted by the change.

Watch Lauren's origin story of discovering and creating a career in visual notetaking. Then read on to learn ways you might build your origin story today.

With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging on, we give some essential tips for facilitating collaborative creativity on Zoom.