What’s the Future of the Visual Facilitation Field?

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.
Images - Stepping Up to Big Questions

Dec 18, 2012

How to Be a Buoy in a Sea of Possibilities

Dec 18, 2012h in Cognition & Communications, Collaboration Strategies, Leading Change, Organization Development by David Sibbet 0 Comments

Fast Company excerpted my new book Visual Leaders in their recent on-line edition. The article features my observations about how to deal with social media by thinking about messages as being buoys in a foggy sea of possibilities. I shared a set of principles that are elaborated on in the article. Click here to read.

Aug 08, 2012

Visual Leaders is Happening

Aug 08, 2012h in Cognition & Communications, Innovation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Systems Theory, Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 5 Comments

A third book in my Wiley & Sons trilogy on visualization is nearing completion of its first draft. Wiley agreed to print the book in full color, and I am having a terrific time loading it with examples of how leaders of all kinds can take advantage of what I’m calling the visualization revolution.

VisualLeadersCover8-3D - Visual Leaders is Happening

This cover image illustrates the big picture focus of the book. It’s written to help leaders and managers increase their visual IQ, learn to work with visual practitioners, and guide their organizations in become more literate visually, in both face-to-face and virtual environments. I am making sure there are lots of practice exercises and suggestions for new leaders.

As with Visual Meetings and Visual Teams, I have been able to not only write the book and do the drawings, but design it myself in InDesign. I’ve actually moved to doing the writing in InDesign, so that from the very first drafts I can see what I’m getting on each page. It’s a thrilling process to be able finally to create in both text and graphics. If you want to read the TOC, click on the images and they will expand.