We asked each Conservancy team to discuss its team’s vision and purpose. Then we invited all of the members to draw a symbol representing that purpose.  Here are the simple drawings that they came up with.  (I’m also adding a drawing of an axe, a hoe and a hut that came from discussion of symbols…

This article was written for the International Forum of Visual Practitioners by David Sibbet, and tells the history of how graphic facilitation developed in the 1970s in the SF Bay Area.

The Reflexive Universe is Arthur M. Young’s seminal book. Click here for a link to Amazon if you want to buy the book.

These are the graphic notes and partcipant pictures from Exchange #2.

This video integrates the Two-fold and Four-Fold operators to explain an overall theory of evolutionary process. The group this time used the Arc of Process Model to look at the current pandemic situation.

Here is a transcript of conversations about: (1) village symbols of manhood, security, success & status, and (2) the role of the Chief. I transcribed these statements of Hammer Simwinga and Allan Chungu in response to questions I asked seeking insights into the minds of indigenous farmers. (See below and attached Word document)     Signs of achievement,…

Here are the notes from zoom call in Session #1 of the Theory of Process.

These graphics notes are about theories of change and how to surface them. It also includes good chat notes for book references and such.

Here are some images of maps drawn by hand by local people of the region, nearby town, local chiefdom and village.  (Apologies for the poor image quality).  

This framework was developed over several decades in the 1980’s and 90s and has become a standard in the field. Many organizations large and small use it as their internal language of teaming. It is the core framework for a system of tools and assessments that allow process leaders to anticipate the success factors of…