Preparing to Write—Visual Consulting

Aug 04, 2016

Preparing to Write—Visual Consulting

Aug 04, 2016h in Cognition & Communications, Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Visual Leadership books by David Sibbet 1 Comment

I am preparing to write a new book called Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change, potentially as a fourth in the Wiley visual leadership series. This one will be co-authored by The Grove’s VP of Global Learning, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., an expert on personal and organizational transformation. It seems right that after so many changes in our own lives, that we focus now on our learning about change, and engage the exploding global network of visual practitioners about how to become skilled consultants with this orientation. Our leading of The Grove’s new Designing & Leading Change workshop the past two years is fueling this new project.

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Jun 11, 2015

Business Models & Mental Models

Jun 11, 2015h in Cognition & Communications, Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Mental Models, Organization Development, Visualizing by David Sibbet 2 Comments

I’m just back from Amsterdam doing some workshops with our Grove partners, Business Models, Inc. Gisela Wendling, The Grove’s Director of Global Learning, and I conducted a public workshop on Visualizing Change for 25 consultants and an internal workshop on Mental Models & Mindsets for BMI as the kickoff to their International Week. I want to share this experience of teaching systems thinking through drawing practice, which echoed my first meeting with Patrick Van Der Pijl, BMI’s founder, at a VizThink conference in Berlin 3-4 years ago.
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Feb 08, 2015

What’s the Future of the Visual Facilitation Field?

Feb 08, 2015h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Systems Theory, Visualizing by David Sibbet 1 Comment

'75EarlySibbetPhoto - What's the Future of the Visual Facilitation Field? Recently I was interviewed by a bright, young reporter from Communication Arts about The Grove’s work in visual facilitation. “I’m talking to a lot of different people and really wanted to talk with you, an acknowledged leader in this field,” she said. “I want to get to some of the underlying theory and structure of what is happening.”

This opening triggered an immediate cascade of memories back to the 1970s when Interaction Associates, Geoff Ball, Fred Lakin, and I were on fire about Group Graphics, the future of technology, facilitation, and organizations. After all, we were in the curl of the massive wave of rethinking that all of my generation was doing about established institutions. Why not take on knowledge work and how we know what we know?

Oct 07, 2014

Stepping Up to Big Questions

Oct 07, 2014h in Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Personal Transformation, Sustainability by David Sibbet 0 Comments

I’m on my way to Germany with Gisela Wendling, The Grove’s Director of Global Learning, to conduct a new kind of workshop for me and The Grove. Called a Visual Interventions LAB, it is moving into the space long held by the National Training LABS that have been so instrumental in developing the professional field of organizational development.

A LAB isn’t a training in skill and content, but a deep inquiry and exploration, where the group process and its knowledge is the primary content. We came up with some big questions that will drive our inquiry.
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