The Graphic Facilitator's Guide:
How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning
Written and drawn by Brandy Agerbeck
Graphic facilitation is serving a group by writing and drawing their conversation live and large.
Done well, it helps people feel heard, builds shared understanding, and lets a team see and touch their thinking in a way they couldn't before.
But it's harder than it looks. No script, no second take.
The Graphic Facilitator's Guide is the foundational handbook for this work.
Brandy Agerbeck walks you through 25 principles organized around 3 vital skills:
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listening deeply
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thinking critically
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drawing swiftly
Chock full of concrete tips, relatable stories, and Brandy's own drawings, this book will sharpen how you serve any room.
2012
306 pages
6" x 9" trim size, black and white interior pages
ISBN-10:
0615591876
ISBN-13:
978-0615591872
Praise for The Graphic Facilitator's Guide
"Congratulations to Brandy Agerbeck, who captured all the key information, all the more subtle tacit knowledge and tons of helpful hints all in one clearly-presented book.
I predict that Agerbeck's book will eventually be referred to as the Graphic Facilitation Bible."
Nancy Margulies
Author of Visual Thinking and Mapping Inner Space
"The Graphic Facilitator's Guide is a wonderful reference book for anyone who wants to take capture notes visually.
From managers at a whiteboard in a meeting to professional graphic facilitators.
This book is a must-have."
Nancy Duarte
CEO of Duarte, Inc.
and best-selling author of
slide:ology and Resonate
Who is The Graphic Facilitator's Guide for?
While Brandy built the book off of her 16 years as a professional graphic facilitator, she wrote the book for a wider audience:
Meeting Mappers:
Graphic facilitators, graphic recorders and scribes
Meeting Makers:
Facilitators, Mediators, Managers, and Leaders
Your precious meeting time is golden. When Mappers and Makers do this work well, they foster a room full of —
Meaning Makers:
Your team, meeting participants and event attendees
What is in The Graphic Facilitator's Guide?
This is Your Guide.
This field of work is wide open. There's an enormous amount of unchartered territory and open, fertile fields. Most of us are solo adventurers, uncertain of where to go. I want this book to be your guide.
There are an infinite number of places to go in this work and ways to get there. This book is not about giving you a single path to one destination. It is not a step-by-step guide. I want you to make your own way.
To that end, this book is set up with 3 Powers and 25 Principles.
Think of the Powers as a set of lenses.
This is a short book excerpt,
pages 24-25.
Like a microscope, each lens brings meetings into sharper focus, showing what couldn’t be seen.
Like a telescope, each lens broadens our perspective and shows us the bigger picture.
Together, these lenses create a powerful instrument that you can use.
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Next, imagine the 25 Principles as stars in the sky.
Let them be your beacons, your reference points to navigate by. They shine above you, helping you navigate your own route. You can fix your attention on one star or gaze upon the whole night sky.
Clusters of these principles fit together in constellations. These stars are constant. They are always there for reference and direction.
Every Principle gets to the Why behind What we do.
Most Principles end with a section called In Practice, which will help guide you toward developing your own How.
Use these tips to make these concepts take hold through action.
Each star on the map above represents one guiding principles to navigate yourself in your work — each star is a chapter.
These chapters create the following constellations, or sections in the guide:
Overview
Be Seen
It’s Not About You
Content is King
Quick Like a Bunny
Process Over Product
Right Tools for the Job
Listening Skills
Stop & Listen
Listen with Outsider Ears
Not All Speakers are Created Equal
Distill
Thinking Skills
Size of Ideas
Chunk
Connect
Think in Levels
Shape of Conversation
Step Back & Look
Drawing Skills
Every Mark Has Meaning
The Essential Eight
Putting It Together
Practicing
Practice Makes Progress
Build Your Visual Vocabulary
Challenge Yourself
In the Room
Your Presence is Powerful
Partner Up
Give Them the Markers
About Author Brandy Agerbeck
As a graphic facilitator, Brandy creates conceptual maps of conversations. Her images help clients navigate the complex territory of their meetings, workshops, and conferences. She works in a large scale format and in real time, visually synthesizing the discussions. She loves getting clients' ideas out of their heads and onto paper – so they can see what the heck they are saying.
Spatial superstar, her strength is seeing connections between thoughts and organizing them into the bigger picture.
Since 1996, she has facilitated groups from two to one thousand in the biotechnology, consulting, education, finance, food, medical, technology, transportation and utilities industries.
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