Use the power of real-time graphics to make your meetings more effective and memorable!

Graphic Facilitation

Leaders everywhere are discovering the power of graphic facilitation to harvest the richness of diverse views and create a shared understanding and alignment for action while stimulating and engaging meeting participants. Graphic Facilitator Paula Hansen combines business knowledge, artistic skill, a well-honed capacity to listen, and a wealth of facilitation experience to infuse vitality, effectiveness and creativity into meetings of all kinds.

Paula creates colorful large-scale visual charts, using words and pictures, to capture meeting content. As a graphic recorder, Paula partners with a facilitator to provide graphics to support and enhance meeting processes and outcomes. As a graphic facilitator, Paula facilitates the meeting along with doing graphic recording.

Graphic recording promotes learning, participation and creativity, and makes meetings more engaging, memorable and effective.

Charts

Here are examples of charts from an Appreciative Inquiry Team Retreat of a major hi-tech company.

Here are examples of charts from a Leadership Conference form a major international aid organization.

"Graphic Recording in the News"

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Graphic recording captures people's attention and imagination. The Sarasota County Economic Development Summit was attended by the local press in Sarasota, Florida and the next day the front page of the Business Section of the Sarasota-Herald Tribune carried a photo of me and a participant working on the 'desired future' chart.

At the Sarasota County Economic Development business and community leaders gathered to study the current state of the local economy and generate a desired vision and strategies for moving forward. I recorded presentations made by a team of economic consultants. In addition, I created a 'current' map of the existing industry clusters, and participants then discussed their vision for Sarasota County and drew on the chart to make a 'desired future' map. This created a colorful diagram that incorporated the views of over 150 local business leaders, and was used by the consulting team as a touchstone image for the remainder of the project. It reflected the energy of the group and served as a vivid reminder of the commitment and enthusiasm present on the day of the meeting.

Client Quote

"It was amazing to see the energy and enthusiasm generated in the room as the group participants could actually see their ideas take on life through the graphic recording. It definitely added to and enhanced the dynamics of the planning sessions."

Visual Learning

Graphic facilitation engages visual perception, which studies have shown increases retention by 40% over the spoken word alone.

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