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.

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.

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.

Lauren and I dive into laughing and winding conversation about getting into visual notetaking, plus starting and pivoting a visual facilitation business.

The following is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Publishing article by Rae Ringel, Brian Tarallo, and Lauren Green.

A big part of making your meetings virtual is re-learning things that you already know in a new setting or environment. Here are five quick skills that ANYONE can do.

A whole systems approach assumes that “the knowledge is the room”; participants already have everything they need in order to create a successful solution, idea or initiative.

Having come from the performing arts, I am fascinated by all the ways that performance shows up in my work as a facilitator. How is this room like a stage?