Visual Meetings online course
Visual Meetings is a practical online course for both new and experienced meeting facilitators who want to transform their group sessions, workshops, training or meetings into memorable, interactive sessions with a human touch. Not a single bit of AI here – how refreshing!
Whether your meeting is virtual or face-to-face, using human-made visual props gives everyone a big clue that this meeting, session or workshop is going to be different. When we say ‘visual meeting’ we’re summing up the beneficial traits of working visually with a group of people: creative, participative, active, working together, working individually, boosting ideas, creating solutions… you get the picture.
If you want to put the humanity back into your meeting facilitation skills, this online course gives you key visual tools and techniques that you can start to use straight away in your workshops, meetings and training sessions, whether you’re working virtually or facilitating in-person events.
Your course tutor Cara Holland
Cara has been a UK-based visual facilitator for over 2 decades, working globally. She built a successful graphiking business with all kinds of clients, from the NHS to Google and IKEA.
She’s developed her own personal style and visual facilitation methods through trial and error and has put that learning into this course. Developed from years of running face-to-face graphic facilitation training, this course is full of tips, techniques and insights Cara has learnt IRL, so that you can boost your meeting facilitation skills with visual tools, techniques and templates.
What our Visual Meetings course students say
“I love your courses Cara. They are so…carefully paced to allow a rich learning experience which is manageable with a full time job. I really appreciate all the encouragement and support. Thank you.”
“I definitely feel that this course has given me more confidence to try visual meeting techniques within my work. A really engaging and interesting course split into easy-to-digest chunks.”
“The most valuable feature has been … sending you my work and receiving feedback… Your feedback has been extremely helpful and has helped me to see things I could not yet see.”
“This course gave me lots of ideas and starting points for my own ideas.”
You’re ready for the Visual Meetings course if…
you’re a new or experienced facilitator who wants to engage participants with visual tools and techniques for memorable, human-focussed sessions
you want practical hand-drawn visual templates you can prepare beforehand to leave you free to focus on delivering an engaging co-operative session on the day
you want the benefit of asking an experienced practitioner questions about technique and implementation when you try out the methods IRL
This course will give you
how-to guides to create your own unique human-made pre-prepared visual tools and templates for meetings
hacks, tips and techniques learnt over decades of delivering visual sessions that engage and deliver results
the confidence to start working more visually yourself, even to encourage your participants to join you
Visual Meetings Course Content
In this course you’ll learn tried-and-tested tips, tricks and sound visual facilitation practice to make your meetings, participant sessions and workshops more effective by being more visual.
Each lesson will focus on a different visual tool to make your sessions more engaging, stimulating, participatory and ultimately fun…whilst still delivering tangible results and outputs. All techniques can be adapted to in person session or video conference platforms. None of them involve AI!
Here’s an overview of the course content:
Drawing 101 - Free bonus foundation course!
- Shapes – containers and connectors
- Objects – drawing icons
- Buildings – building sets
- People – basic people, roles, emotions and diversity
- Colour – to structure, to highlight, to engage
- Text – headings, titles, text body
Visual Dictionary Booster
Room Set Up
Best practice tips for how to set up your physical meeting room to have a productive visual meeting
Go Digital
We explore your options (from simple and cost-effective to more expensive) for going ‘digital’ with your new visual props, so you can add them into your video conferences
Virtual Set Up
Practical tips on how to plan and prepare to deliver an engaging visual virtual meeting (usually a video conference), whatever the platform you use
Involve Them!
Simple but powerful techniques to encourage your participants to be more visual and collectively gain the benefits of working together visually
Whiteboard Hacks
Deceptively simple Whiteboard Hacks to take a blank digital screen to an impactful next level to set the tone of your participant session
Visual Agenda
Step-by-step method to create a hand-drawn Visual Agenda that you can use as a guide throughout your facilitation session
Collaborative Agenda
Create and use this powerful one-sheet / one-screen collaborative visual tool to use with your participants to walk them through a session
Parking Places
Digital Templates
Step-by-step method to create a layered hand-drawn digital template as an engaging visual framework for a group session
Visual Feedback
After the Session
Real-world tips for how to make the most of your memorable, easily-absorbed visuals after a session, whether in person or virtual
Further Learning Resources
Why the Graphic Change Academy is different
Our courses are 100% human-created and our Academy platform is 100% human-built. Each lesson is tried and tested, based on human experience in the real world of work in various sectors. Here are some other ways we’re not a typical online course provider…
we don't do mass online training
– we see you as an individual so you get the support to succeed
we give you practical tools you can use right away
– Each lesson breaks down a practical human-created visual tool that you can adapt for your work. So you can apply your new skills straight away in the real world, even whilst doing the course
this online course includes tutor feedback
– you can ask your expert tutor a question or post your work for feedback and your tutor will respond to you, individually and directly, human to human. This is the real learning booster!
your tutor is an experienced practitioner
– so they’ve been there and done it IRL. They’re still doing it! This helps you deal with real world scenarios and learn tips, hacks and best practice from a professional graphic facilitator
our support is personal and direct
– when you email us you get a direct reply from a helpful person who responds to your individual needs. Try us out! If you have a question about whether this course is right for you, email Natasha at support@graphicchange.com
Visual Meetings Course at a glance…
Online course, any device, any time
Instant access upon purchase
11 self-led Lessons
Step-by-step lessons, videos, further resources
Apply each practical lesson to your work right away
Bonus Drawing 101 course
£195 single course or £445 for 3 course bundle
Show your coursework for feedback and ask your tutor questions in a private Ask the Tutor area of each lesson
Track your progress from the start to the end of your course
Go at your own pace to fit in with your life
For individuals – contact us for team discounts
Downloadable completion certificate
Sign up and start your Visual Meetings course today!
VISUAL MEETINGS
Give your meetings structure, boost group participation and ensure your team sessions are out of the ordinary with the visual tools and skills from our 11 lesson Visual Meetings online course. Start today and use these skills straight away in your role!
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