Art of Awakening

How do you bring different community partners together, hear many perspectives and turn a room full of conversations into insights people can actually see and use? Art of Awakening partnered with the People’s Association to support a series of community conversations focused on healthy ageing, connection and stronger neighbourhoods. Our role was more than recording what was said. We listened. We facilitated. We helped make meaning visible. How the Sessions Work Participants g

Every Senior Matters. Every Neighbour Cares. Healthy Ageing Conversations across our communities Across Singapore, people are coming together to explore a simple but important question: How might we create communities where our seniors can live well, stay connected and continue to contribute? These conversations bring together grassroots leaders, community partners, healthcare organisations, volunteers and residents to listen, share and imagine what more is possible. Through

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“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile” This is an introduction by Mihály Csikszentmihalyi, in his ground-breaking book on Flow, from 1990. Proud presenter posing with her graphic recording on “Flow” Yesterday, I had the opportunity to flow more into this topic by Experience De

Put a Bench in Your Garden for Reflection: How Visual Tools & Metaphors can Boost Your Coaching Practice Perhaps the greatest skill a coach can bring to their practice is listening. When you add drawing to your listening, you give your client a tangible tool which reflects your collective listening and sense-making I have always had an appreciation and admiration of coaches. They remind me of a skillful gardener with a great bag of seeds for planting ideas, and a bountiful ba

You’ve done all of your planning and preparation for your upcoming conference, meeting or learning event. You’ve engaged a graphic recorder to support with creating engaging live visual summaries for each of the sessions for your client. But then there’s a change of plans. Perhaps using live graphic recording is no longer a feasible option. You still would like to create engagement and collaborative learning opportunities through individual or group visual work. Here are 3 al

We are all looking for new and meaningful ways to bring more engagement to our meetings. How about a visual card deck with the key points from your workshop or presentation? Here’s a case study of how we did this with one client who teaches “financial storytelling”. “Accounting in a Box” began as live scribing in James Leong C Foo excellent workshop: “finance for non-financial people”. After the workshop, we debriefed with the client, decided on content re-structuring and ord

Question: How do you get a book to sprint? Answer: Give it wings! “The Visual Facilitation Field Guide” is a comprehensive resource of tools, stories, and strategies, to support facilitators, coaches, trainers, communication designers who want to bring more visual mojo into their practice. Shaped by over 50 leading visual facilitators from around the world, and a team of 3 co-editors, this project, which started out as one person’s vision, has moved to catalyze a good percent