This virtual facilitation thing? We’ve been doing it since 2013. We facilitate remote meetings and teams using webmeeting and collaboration software. If it can be done in the room, we can do it virtually. We train others in how to facilitate virtual meetings, too.
Screenshot from "The Virtual Facilitation Workshop" by Lizard Brain
Brian Tarallo facilitates a virtual energizer
Facilitation using webmeeting and group software
Brian Tarallo teaches virtual facilitation
Students learn virtual facilitation by doing
Translating in-person facilitation activities into virtual activities
Zoom is our preferred platform for virtual facilitation
Virtual facilitation is not just presenting; it is collaborative work
Translating in-person facilitation activities into virtual activities
Participants learning virtual facilitation leave with new tools
Vision Maps
Vision Maps are illustrations that show complex future states, current environments, or plans, projects, and proposals on a single sheet of paper.
Vision maps illustrate complex environments and strategies
Vision maps begin by mindmapping as much information as possible.
Volunteers of America used a vision map to illustrate its leadership development program
Participants work together to identify relevant information
Vision maps are non-linear, allowing viewers to follow their interest
Participants tell stories from draft vision maps to refine the message
A process map using a factory metaphor
Vision maps can contain sensitive information for new products and services
Vision maps tell a story with a visual metaphor
A vision map tells a story of growth and progress
Heather Martinez teaches vision mapping to the Mid Atlantic Facilitator Network
A vision map simplifies complex ideas
Rich visual metaphors help tell the story
Participants iterate on vision maps, adding and refining ideas
Vision maps identify trends and pressures facing an organization
The Mid Atlantic Facilitators' Network practices skills necessary to map visions
The Mid Atlantic Facilitators' Network practices skills necessary to map visions
The Mid Atlantic Facilitators' Network practices vision mapping
The Mid Atlantic Facilitators' Network practices the Six Thumbnails method
Whiteboard Animation
High-speed, time-lapsed illustration captured on video and voiced explanations to communicate messages quickly and effectively.
Scene from whiteboard animation for Nysmith School for the Gifted
Scene from whiteboard animation on early childhood education
Scene from whiteboard animation for Volunteers of America
Virtual reality explainer video
Training
Training in visual facilitation, virtual facilitation, graphic recording, strategic facilitation, design thinking, and traditional facilitation.
We’re not convening in person, but we are offering one-on-one remote visual facilitation training. Click here to schedule a free 30-min Zoom call to talk about your goals for learning.
You can also follow public online workshops through our partnership with NOVA Scribes.
Lizard Brain teaches visual facilitation at The Clearing in Washington, DC
Agenda from Think With Ink, Lizard Brain's visual facilitation workshop
