Learn Graphic Recording & Visual Facilitation online
Practical online courses to harness your creativity and transform your communication
Years of experience training people to work visually
%
students who feel more confident working visually after a course
countries in the Academy SO FAR
pens we've used in our lifetime*
*ok, maybe not. But it’s a lot…
Who are you here for?
Just me
Join like-minded aspiring visual thinkers learning practical visual facilitation or graphic recording in our Academy courses
My team
Want to work more visually as a team? If you have 3+ people you can train cost-effectively with a Group Rate
My organisation
Get whole organisation benefits of learning a common visual language together with a Team Licence or Tailored Training
Don't want to do it yourself?
You can hire Cara Holland to do a Live Illustration for you over at the Graphic Change Studio
Graphic Change Academy online Visual Thinking courses
At the Graphic Change Academy we don’t do mass online training. We don’t think tickbox video training gives you the practice you need for visual thinking. So instead we built a visually pleasing online learning platform that focuses on practical skills training. Each bite-size lesson within a course gives you background text to read, images to inspire you with examples, how-to videos to show technique, and hands-on exercises to try out and embed your learning.
We didn’t stop there, because we want you to actually complete your online course! Each paid course is supported by a tutor who is an expert graphic recording practitioner, Cara Holland, who can give you valuable written feedback on your assignments, giving you inspiration, encouragement and accountability. We want you to finish the course you invested in and get back out into your workplace with well-practised skills that help you engage people, interact with humans better and deliver more tangible outcomes for businesses. So you can ask for that wage rise or charge your clients more!
Tutor-supported Visual Thinking courses
These 12-module online courses have been devised from over a decade of in-person training, and will equip you with practical visual thinking skills, tools and ideas to implement in your work. You can try things out IRL even whilst you’re learning how to be a Graphic Recorder or Visual Facilitator!
These are practical learning courses, with hands-on lessons in the Graphic Change Academy for you to do at your convenience, alongside access to a supportive private Class Community for the year for you to share coursework or ask practical questions for tutor feedback. It’s the best of all online learning experiences, and super cost-effective compared to in-person training! (If you are interested in in-person training for your team, then take a look at our Team Training page.)
Registration is open from February to September each year. You can join us online for your own 12 weeks to suit you any time within these dates – start as soon as you register!
GRAPHIC FACILITATION TRAINING
Enhance your existing facilitation skills with visual tools, techniques and templates. Get results and deliver better meetings, training sessions or events, even whilst training. A practical online Programme with tutor feedback and support.
Registration closes 15th September 2026!
12 week course
Start when you want
20 people max
Annual Class Community
Tutor feedback
GRAPHIC RECORDING TRAINING
Improve your Graphic Recording, Sketchnoting or Graphic Translation skills, for both analogue and digital mediums. A practical online Live Illustration Programme full of hands-on exercises with tutor feedback and support.
Registration closes 15th September 2026!
12 week course
Start when you want
20 people max
Annual Class Community
Tutor feedback
Prefer to do a shorter Visual Thinking course?
If you don’t feel quite ready to commit to a 12-week course, we’ve built some small but perfectly formed online practical visual thinking courses for you to start when you want, pick the lesson you fancy, and do at your own pace.
Be inspired by our Mini Courses if you want to learn to draw more at work, do visual journalling, improve your meeting facilitation, tell a story to captivate an audience or plan your work better using visual tools and templates.
Like our flagship online courses, our mini courses are practical, with tried and tested step-by-step methods that will encourage you to put your new visual thinking skills into practice in real life, even whilst you’re doing the course!
Bespoke Visual Thinking team training packages
Whether you want a bespoke training module or to have 1-to-1 coaching, we can put together a real world and online Academy blended learning combination to support your team to take your visual facilitation or graphic recording skills to the next level. If you’d prefer a bespoke team graphic facilitation training experience, get in touch to discuss your requirements, or take a look at our teams info first.
At the Graphic Change Academy we believe that…
You don’t have to use AI to engage humans
People can tell when you use AI, and not in a good way.
AI is useful for many things, but if you really want to connect with groups of people in your work, hand-drawn images with human made templates is a powerful way to show people you value them, and to cut through the slop. At Graphic Change we’ve used 100% human creativity to build our Academy platform and lesson content. All tutor feedback and Academy support is also 100% human, and always will be. See our AI policy.
You don’t have to be in a creative organization to work more creatively
Working visually gives you the edge, whatever your industry.
Visual working sets individuals and organisations apart across all sorts of sectors and industries. Working creatively in a non-creative organisation gives you the edge over your competitors and helps engage your customers, clients and workforce better.
You don’t have to be artistic to draw at work
Everyone can draw well enough to work visually.
One of the best kept secrets of working visually is that anyone can do it, most people think they can’t, and almost everyone will be impressed with you when you do. We call it Functional Drawing. You can join our Draw More Boot Camp for free to overcome your fear of drawing again.
You don’t have to be in a classroom to learn
The best place for you to learn is where you are.
You don’t need to travel to course venues or spend whole days on courses. The Graphic Change Academy is the best of all learning experiences, with access to practical lessons at a time and place to suit you, to fit in between work. And ideally to put into practice in between lessons.
You don’t have to be on your own when you learn online
Just because you’re online doesn’t mean you’re alone.
The Graphic Change Academy gives you the benefits of online learning with the enhanced experience of access to a real tutor for feedback and questions. This means you can grow your confidence to put your learning into action. You’re also more likely to finish your course.
What people say about our online courses
Our Mission
is to help you get the benefits of working visually. We help you share ideas, connect with others, change thinking into doing and clarify the complex, by helping you draw more.
Why work visually?
There are lots of proven reasons why your business will benefit from working visually. Better engagement, effective problem solving, and increased alignment to name a few. Here’s some more examples.
But I can't draw...
Working visually is not about art. It’s about working, thinking and connecting differently. Don’t worry if you think you can’t draw – we teach you enough Functional Drawing to make an impact. Start here.