Graphic Recording 5W1H

What is Graphic Recording?

Visual Tool fo Effective Buisness Communication

Concept Map:

 Large Scale:

 Live: Real Time:
Hand drawn: Words and Images

And its cousins:
Back of a napkin
Sketch notes
A6, A5, A4, A3
Poster/ Flip chart
Templates
Mood-o-meter
Introduction picture cards

WHY?

BECAUSE Man has been drawing on the wall since prehistoric time

BECAUSE Children naturally think in pictures before they learn words

BECAUSE We want to make complex ideas simple

BECAUSE We can only focus
 on up to 7 things at a time

BECAUSE We want effective business communication

Graphic Recording is like

Catching important ideas and throwing them on the wall

Sweeping leaves into piles

Highlighting stars in the sky so you can join the dots

Boiling and distilling the truth

Scooping fish into different buckets

TOOLBOX
SOFTWARE
FONTS
ICONS
BORDERS, BANNERS, ARROWS

HARDWARE
PENS, PASTELS, COLOURS, PENCIL, ERASER, RULER
WALL, EASEL, BACKING, UNDERWEAR, PAPER, STICKIES
STRING, BULLDOG CLAMP, MASKING TAPE, DUCT TAPE, BLUE TACK

HOW?

CONTENT IS KING:

 LISTEN & LOOK

What is being said (Speaker, participants)
Speaker notes, slides
Reaction of participants

PROCESS
Synthesise, Analyse, Summarise, Translate, Visualise

PLAN,
Sketch, Write

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SGGR June 27 Meetup

Door gifts for early birds

Clothes peg style paper clips from Copenhagen

Nyonya cake moulds from Penang

Agenda for 27 June 2015 SGGR: created by open space technology

Ticket sales were via eventbrite, with attractive early bird discount.

Electronic ticketing and booking helps with logistics and catering.

First item was a demo of my Z-fold  portable 3x6 foot graphic wall.

It was an interactive demo where participants were guided to unfold and assemble the 13 mm foam core board.

and mount it on my extended easels

And clip the 3x6 foot chart on it.

Then the open space

Participants were invited to create A5 size tickets with topics they wanted to discuss.

9 tickets were generated.

each creator outlined what the topic was about.

The 9 topics were clustered into four groups.

There was general consensus that the whole group was interested in all 4 clusters.

The four clusters were each allocated a time slot

1) TeKaTiNi

2) on logistics and portable boards

3) a cluster of visual recording tips

4) Icon jam

And a timekeeper was allocated

How do you hold your marker?

Do you only use BigOne?

Generate a list of what we need

Different names or types of paper we can use....

Foam core boards....

Through thick and thin....

Looking at the nine OST topics

Icon Jammed!

GR for the session: name tags hung up, ready to go home

The gang

Wild ones

Participants comments:

Great to hear everyone's experiences: 

Teketini especially great as a reminder and opener - would love kinesthetic activities/warm up for each session.

It was very helpful to see, feel and use the z-fold board setup!

Thanks for the generous sharing of ideas and tips!

I learn something new every time I attend the SgGR meetup session. 

Really great!  A fruitful learning session!

DIY portable 8x4 foot board

End product 

Foldable board made of 3 pieces of 3x 4 feet foam core boards: 

with 8.3 cm x4 feet strip trimmed off the width, the three taped together span 8 feet.

Foldable

Two faces: black or white

Packable

Portable

My foldable 4x8 board was mounted on a 3x6 board hybrid with a 4x6 board:

I brought it along just in case.

Event manager failed to come up with 4x8 board.

Three flip chart easels bound together with duct tape: 

3M hooks, twine: whatever it takes; 

it worked.

Addendum

In response to question on duct tape

I used 13 mm thick foam core board and very happy with it: 5 mm might work, but more flimsy: my 13 mm gives a good support.

Use fabric based 2 inch wide duct tape.

The duct tape has to be on the inside of the fold: imagine three pieces of foam core board : each three foot by two foot: name them A, B,C: and for easy reference consider they have different color on each face, one side black, one side white.

Assemble ABC in front of you, black face facing you: if you tape a

A and B together on the black surface,  they can fold upon each other. To Zfold, B must be taped  to C on the white surface. 

(If B and C are also taped on the black surface , then your device can not Z fold)

The story of Anwar

The visiting team from Makassar was brought to pray with Anwar:

This is his story:

Anwar was a homeless jobless vagrant: divorced, 

with high blood pressure and diabetes and heart disease.

He often spends the night under Merdeka bridge.

The mercy team came and brought him an evening meal as the do their "Street people" outreach, every Monday night and Wednesday night. And they would pray for him "In Jesus name".

He became  interested in this "Jesus" and wanted to know more about him.

Then Anwar began to pray "That I would meet Jesus in my dreams".

He prayed this for many months.

Then one night, Anwar dreamt that he was in a place of great darkness.

Then he saw a light that was twinkling and became very bright.

Then he saw a man: he could see the body, arms, legs, feet and sandals.

But he could not see the face: It was singing to bright to be seen.

"Who are you?" Anwar asked .

But the person remained silent and did not reply.

Over the next few months, Anwar prayed again and again that he would see Jesus.

One night Anwar dreamt of an old man.

Old man asked Anwar "Why do you always call to see Jesus?"

Anwar answered "Why not?"

Old man said "If you really want to know Jesus you must follow him"

"Give me a few days to think" said Anwar.

Anwar shared with us:

"I had been having a terrible life: 

Divorced, jobless, homeless, poor health....

Maybe this Jesus might change my life."

The mercy team continued to share with Anwar.

One of them showed Anwar a "picture" of Jesus in their iPad.

"Yes that is what I saw in my dream," Anwar confirmed.

" But I could not see the face, it was shining too brightly".

Anwar was baptised on Christmas day 2014.

One day he was reading his bible.

He was feeling hungry, when someone came and gave him some barbecued mutton.

Somehow Anwar did not eat that food.

Then that old man appeared and took the food from Anwar but did not say anything, then disappeared.

Anwar's third encounter with that old man is when Anwar was trying to relieve himself against a wall behind Raffles Hospital: He felt a tap on his shoulder. It was that old man. "You can not pass urine here. You will get fined", the old man said. Then the old man said "God will give you a big family, and a place to stay." Then the old man disappeared .

Not long after, Anwar was found to have a cancer in his colon. 

He was brought to stay with the Mercy team. Now he has "family" and a place to stay!

The second half of the chart documents pastor Hendrick's sharing

4-5 months ago my father was a Muslim but is now a church minister.

4 months ago he found he had stage 4 lung cancer.

He saw doctors in Malaysia and Singapore

"can not help him"

"Maximum  2 months to live"

He was very uncomfortable

Every day could not sleep

Whole body itchy 

this is the chart I sketched on a flip chart taped to Anwar's cupboard.

IAF SG Connect #1

IAF SG 2015 Connect #1

Standing for a minutes silence in memory of the late MM Lee Kuan Yew.

My post-its plan for icebreaker. 

Had to complete in minus seven minutes because of time overrun.

Noel had led the group in an activity that had covered past: 

sharing in groups of three: "What did Lee Kuan Yew mean to me."

For present: I planned for participants to think positive thoughts for the bereaved family as they folded paper cranes.

Slight problem:

When I asked "Those who do not know how to fold paper crane please raise your hand",

the vast majority put up a hand!

You can literally see my consternation!

Plan B improvised on the spot, and called into action.

"Fold any paper design you like, 

and think positive thoughts for the bereaved family as you fold your paper"

Coloured origami squares were distributed.

Intense concentration as positive thoughts exude.

Some of the origami offerings.

Next I had the choir sing as they planned to emulate the positive aspirations of Lee Kuan Yew.

The tunes were Singapura O Singapura, and Rasa Sayang Eh.

The lyrics were "do do do do"

Romey introduced the role and function of IAF SG, 

spanning member care, development and connectivity.

Noel was sharing on the core competencies of a process facilitator.

He identified Neutrality as an important one.

Participants in all groups discussed situations where neutality was seen and others where it was not exhibited:

After some sharing the groups were clustered into  two bigger groups for further discussion. 

Noel popped into the groups to "facilitate" some of the discussion.

Part of the session was identifying how Noel had demonstrated neutrality (or not).

POSITIVE stories

Same Language

eg SG Conversation

     Facilitator listen/ guide the conversation

    Impact was good

NEGATIVE stories

Poor facilitation

Barrier

Steering

Push agenda

Yen Kai later identified his place on the flying fox/ spectrum as a facilitator in experiential learning.

Take home message
What does neutrality look like?
Why is it important?
How can we grow it?

F&B landed on my desk, largely outsourced to the wife of my youth. 

The spontaneous help by willing hands who stepped up to the plate (pun intended)

 without being asked, is gratefully acknowledged.

The CPF certification process was shared by a few victims/ and a torturer.

Jerlyn shared on the mentoring process.

SBL on undergoing certification with a mentor 

Rani as mentor

Su Min and Yen Kai on their experiences

NCS as assessor

There was a bunch of minions who were scribbling on the wall.

Me!

Teck Kwang adding pan-pastels

Happy minions

Minions four: King of spades, Ace of hearts, Queen of diamonds, Knave of clubs!

Minions

Photo credits:
 a few were mine:
 many from Seow Bee Leng and "borrowed" from Facebook:
 THANKS!