Envisioning Something New?

Do you see a new initiative, practice or strategy on your horizon? Do you have an image of collective conversation that is inclusive, open and generative? Are you looking for the tools with which to create sustainable change?

Bruce Flye designs visual processes that Make Voices Visible, framing and stimulating the positive group dialogue, synthesis and reflection essential to creative planning, policy-making and problem-solving. Strategic planning, program development and near-term challenges can all be energized by processes that tap the energies in both sides of our brains as artists and designers have learned to enjoy. Whether you are an organizational leader or a consultant who helps organizations, Bruce can collaborate with you to produce positive outcomes.

Making Voices Visible can take one or more of the following forms:

Process Design and facilitation that carefully assesses the aspirations and challenges in your situation and then designs a custom approach built on proven practices. Engagements are graphically facilitated using visual tools such as live and large scale drawing, pre-printed imagery and active engagement of the participants themselves. Practices employed often include Appreciative Inquiry and the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem-Solving Method. Systems Thinking, SOAR, World Café and other skills can also be deployed to achieve optimal outcomes.

Graphic Recording creates drawings of events in real-time. It differs from graphic facilitation in that it occurs in the background with little or no direct interaction with participants, and in collaboration with one or more individuals who are actually leading the session. Graphic records are typically done at a large scale, combining words and images to capture both the content and the experience. Such imagery has been found to create high levels of engagement during an event and a shared group memory for afterward.

Graphic Concepts and Illustrations capitalize on the old axiom: a picture is worth a thousand words. Simple color drawings can be created to expeditiously express the kernels of an idea, and to frame the conversations essential to carrying it forward.

Event Photography as part of process design and graphic recording adds yet another dimension for capturing and preserving images of interaction and memorable moments.

Subjects in a research forum signing the graphic record of their stories and conversations.