Graphic facilitation

Learn how to graphic even if you think that you cannot draw! This course offers participants the opportunity to develop their skills and confidence in using art and graphics to facilitate groups. This powerful method of communication is extremely useful for facilitating any type of meeting or event among communities, service users, colleagues, partnership meetings or in training situations. Graphicing can be particularly useful when facilitating groups of children and young people, people who engage better with the use of images and colour, or just to liven up your facilitation sessions!

By the end of the course participants will have built on their drawing skills and learned how to use colour and images to ensure that a group/individual feels ownership of the graphic. Participants will learn how to depict commonly occurring images using simple shapes, draw images to symbolise more abstract concepts relevant to their own work, develop confidence in their own abilities and, most importantly, have fun!

Duration 1 day

Target audience

Anyone who facilitates groups and is looking to develop use of art in their facilitation

Learning aim

To develop the skills and confidence to use graphic methods in meetings with groups or individuals.

Learning objectives

• Provide an opportunity for participants to build on their drawing skills through practical exercises
• Demonstrate how to use colour and images to ensure that a group/individual feels ownership of the graphic.
• Demonstrate the importance of how colour is used
• Present use of different media
• Demonstrate how to depict commonly occurring images
• Present ways to symbolise abstract concepts relating to individual’s areas of work using images

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course participants will:

• Have developed their drawing skills
• Know how to use colour and images to ensure that a group/individual feels ownership of the graphic.
• Understand the importance of how colour is used
• Learn about the use of different media
• Learn how to depict commonly occurring images using simple shapes
• Draw images to symbolise more abstract concepts relevant to their own work
• Develop confidence in their own abilities