Category: graphic facilitation

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Setting goals…

Aaron

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’”  Dylan Moran I love thinking about how people set goals.   I love how some people walk into a room and know exactly what they want, and how some of their supporters knew that would happen, and others are shocked and delighted…  And I love how some people, and some groups of people, walk in so tentatively, not quite sure what they might want, not sure how to say what they want, not sure if it’s “realistic.”   A while ago, … Continue reading Setting goals…

aaron johannes, art, community mapping, disability, facilitation, graphic facilitation, research, shelley nessman1 Comment

fun video of our Victoria community mapping session and some time-lapse graphic facilitation

Aaron

Video by Hayley Glossop of Rainbow Notations.  You can check out more posts about this project on our project blog.   The Community Mapping sessions were sponsored by an award from the BC Ideas folks, in Community Living Innovation.   In this project Shelley Nessman and I are going to three communities to ask  self advocates with intellectual disabilities: where do you make a contribution?  where would you be missed?  where are you welcomed in the ways you want to be?  After a day together, and a lot of drawing and talking, we clean up the room and they host … Continue reading fun video of our Victoria community mapping session and some time-lapse graphic facilitation

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“Let’s Call her Rachel.”

Aaron

Edit: Realized that this link had changed, so I’ve edited it so it works now.  It’s not the best story-telling delivery in the world – I was way too nervous – but I like this story and had such a good time after being so fearful 🙂 Click on the picture to go to the site! I’ve been lucky enough to spend time with graphic facilitator Brandy Agerbeck and get to see how she challenges herself, and was amazed by her talk, “Shape Your Thinking: Brandy Agerbeck at TEDxWindyCity,” so when, just a few days later, I was asked to participate in … Continue reading “Let’s Call her Rachel.”