t started two years ago when we made our first youth exchange on street activism and communication by visual tools, which was called “Imaginarium”. Then a year ago we continued with a training course in media literacy which was called “Literarium” and this week we carry out the “Facilitarium”, which is about visual facilitation.
And why we wanted to make “Facilitarium” as a training course on visual facilitation, was because there is a trend in youth work and youth education and training to become more visual and more kind of image oriented. There are many people already involved in that and there was also interest from our partners towards this topic. So this is how we elaborated the idea and this is how we found trainers this is how we came up with agenda.
Visual facilitation as a topic. Well the first of all it interests me personally because since I’ve been recently involved into arts and design education, I can see the influence of image on the flow of the learning process. It was also interesting for me to combine something that I discovered in formal education to put it into the non-formal education – to see which things might work and which things might not work.
For some of the topics it was very essential to work exactly in small groups because some things, especially including hands-on approach, they are not quite well maintained in the big group. So that’s why you need a group of 6-7 people so you can approach everyone and help everyone to show once again how is it going.
Mind map is an entrance to visual facilitation. It’s a way how to group your ideas and how to record the flow of the process, but if you add some more images to it, it can perfectly look as a graphic recording as well. It’s something which looks very similar to visual facilitation because these are all the same principles. It’s kind of splitting information efficiently to have kind of one picture for time, to have a glance and to understand where is the most important thing and how less important things are allocated and so on.
Skill of drawing and skill of visual facilitation is not the same thing. It is also interesting to see how people evolved. Especially, in case of “Facilitarium” when everybody was so critical about their own drawing skills and actually in three days have proven the opposite to themselves. This is the most exciting thing about approaching the development of new skills, hard skills really, right here, right now, all together, changing the whole idea about yourself as a learner.
Originally the workshop was about flipchart paper folding, but when I started doing that, I found out that sometimes you need to make a choice which way to unfold the paper and making a choice for me it’s like a game. So I decided to make an interactive commix called “Follow the rabbit”.
In “Facilitarium” one of the workshops that I really enjoyed and found very useful was about making zines – the way of folding the paper. This books is called “Who are they?” and I am really thinking to use in training courses or maybe in conferences where people need to get to know each other better or improve their cooperation or simply start the conversation. So how it works, everybody will get this book and there are 8 questions and the idea is to find a person and write this person’s name here and ask him one of the questions.
To become a visual facilitator you have to simplify everything. Or once it said? Simplify to amplify, right?
And why we wanted to make “Facilitarium” as a training course on visual facilitation, was because there is a trend in youth work and youth education and training to become more visual and more kind of image oriented. There are many people already involved in that and there was also interest from our partners towards this topic. So this is how we elaborated the idea and this is how we found trainers this is how we came up with agenda.
Visual facilitation as a topic. Well the first of all it interests me personally because since I’ve been recently involved into arts and design education, I can see the influence of image on the flow of the learning process. It was also interesting for me to combine something that I discovered in formal education to put it into the non-formal education – to see which things might work and which things might not work.
For some of the topics it was very essential to work exactly in small groups because some things, especially including hands-on approach, they are not quite well maintained in the big group. So that’s why you need a group of 6-7 people so you can approach everyone and help everyone to show once again how is it going.
Mind map is an entrance to visual facilitation. It’s a way how to group your ideas and how to record the flow of the process, but if you add some more images to it, it can perfectly look as a graphic recording as well. It’s something which looks very similar to visual facilitation because these are all the same principles. It’s kind of splitting information efficiently to have kind of one picture for time, to have a glance and to understand where is the most important thing and how less important things are allocated and so on.
Skill of drawing and skill of visual facilitation is not the same thing. It is also interesting to see how people evolved. Especially, in case of “Facilitarium” when everybody was so critical about their own drawing skills and actually in three days have proven the opposite to themselves. This is the most exciting thing about approaching the development of new skills, hard skills really, right here, right now, all together, changing the whole idea about yourself as a learner.
Originally the workshop was about flipchart paper folding, but when I started doing that, I found out that sometimes you need to make a choice which way to unfold the paper and making a choice for me it’s like a game. So I decided to make an interactive commix called “Follow the rabbit”.
In “Facilitarium” one of the workshops that I really enjoyed and found very useful was about making zines – the way of folding the paper. This books is called “Who are they?” and I am really thinking to use in training courses or maybe in conferences where people need to get to know each other better or improve their cooperation or simply start the conversation. So how it works, everybody will get this book and there are 8 questions and the idea is to find a person and write this person’s name here and ask him one of the questions.
To become a visual facilitator you have to simplify everything. Or once it said? Simplify to amplify, right?
Facilitarium: Enhancing Learning Process by Visual Tools - Erasmus+
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