Sibbet's consulting firm continues to offer services, products, and training in graphic facilitation and recording and training. The number of skilled graphics practitioners has grown substantially over the years. Last year, more than 30 graphic facilitators and recorders gathered near San Francisco to celebrate the incredible richness of approaches that have grown from our early work. What we started as a set of creative strategies for increasing group productivity is now its own field. How graphic facilitation helps Graphic facilitation supports the resolution of conflicts by going beyond a solely verbal approach.
Graphic facilitation helps manage the complexity of group discussions.
It reflects back the expression of multiple perspectives, makes connections between thoughts, provides a way to store information, describes a complex flow of activity, energizes a group, helps a group maintain sufficient focus to work together, and provides an explicit structure for thinking. During the meeting, we used the icons to explain the mitigations and facilitate discussion about them. As a result, participants did not get hung up on the technical terms, and were able to use the icons to indicate their priorities and make suggestions for other mitigations. In one of the best workshops I can remember, small groups of eight to nine people created stunning and humorous graphics that presented their vision of the future of their movement. It was incredibly energizing and allowed a lot of insights to be shared quickly and powerfully.