"Visual Dreamers" was an international training course implemented by Shokkin Group Italia and Shokkin Group International and funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. The project brought together 31 participants from 8 European countries in Scanzano Jonico (Italy) during the period 13-20 April 2019. #VisualDreamers #shokkinint
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And here our Doodling Diary, a guided resource to support reflection in non-formal education events through visual note-taking. Enjoy the reading!
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Are you looking for some great inspiration? Check this Instagram resources!
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And the visual magic had an immediate effect! ;)
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And finally, here the amazing visual summary of the social innovation ideas created during the last two days of #visualdreamersTC!
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Day 6 - Report
And last but not least... On the last day of our training, we conquered the 15 minutes threshold during our morning meditation routine. After a warm and fast heart-beating game, the groups that were formed the afternoon of the previous day continued refining their project ideas.
Following our morning coffee break, we returned to our training room for an initial test of our ideas. For that purpose, groups united in bigger discussion groups of 2-3 project groups. Each project had 1 minute to present the main idea and 3 minutes to listen to questions and suggestions from the members of the other groups.
Afterwards, the project groups split again and continued elaborating the design of their idea and its visual presentation. Everyone would agree that we got really passionate and over-creative with this task.
After lunch break we were given 30 more minutes for the final “touches” of our visuals and then we gathered at 16:00, back in the training room to present our projects: Community Farming, Urban Plus, Virtual Zoo, E-Heard, Projectbank.gr, Human Wabi-Sabi, Scrambled Ch(i)efs, which referred to socially innovative ideas in the fields of sustainability, animal welfare, youth participation, youth entrepreneurship and wellbeing.
All ideas were super amazing and their visual presentations so C O O L !!! Participants expressed their appreciation for each other’s contribution and amazement for what can be achieved within 24 hours when a group of people co-creates. At the same time, many claimed a boost in their self-confidence when it comes to drawing and declared a shift from a “think more before” to a more “just do it” mindset.
After our last coffee break, we returned to the room for our final evaluation as Visual Dreamers participants. Of course visual tools existed for that purpose as well. “Feedback pizza” measured our satisfaction concerning the team, the group, the content, the venue and the food, the methods and the hosting. In addition to that, we were called to place post-its with AHA moments and main Challengers on the flipcharts that tracked our common experience in the training, and also to take the post-its with our initial objectives out of the Goal Board, if they had been met. Finally, we were invited to move one last time our symbols on the Self-assessment Bars.
Besides the visuals, a not so boring evaluation form helped us define in more detail our learning experience. Afterwards, our Youthpass certificates were distributed among each other, combined with words of appreciation and gratitude. We finished our “last session of our last session” of our last day together, as we started, by randomly picking amongst the mood-cards that were created the previous night during Jaanika’s session. This is where our training, almost officially ended.
Our day 6 together, essentially ended with our Beach-Party that Karl orchestrated, Annamaria supported and everyone enjoyed.
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DAY 5 – Report
We started the morning making empathy maps to help put ourselves in the shoes of the target youth groups we work with. Lots of fun visual displays of thinking what our youth THINK, FEEL, SEE, SAY, DO, AND HEAR.
Afterwards we had to make visual frames and layouts for how we would graphically record different events (such as conferences, personal maps, strategic meetings, developmental learning processes, etc) we came up with some incredible ideas! Very inspiring!
Later we combined the topics we’ve been working on: social innovation and graphic facilitation and came up with visual representations for different socially innovative ideas we've seen around the world, such as garbage cafes, poop repurposing:), sidewalk libraries, blind cancer detections and more!!
In the evening we learned from Pavel some tools to help us come up with socially innovative ideas such as: Appreciative inquiry (the 5 D's: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, and Deliver) and SCAMPER for the designing phase: (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to Another Use, Eliminate, Reverse.
We divided ourselves into small groups based on our common interests of: virtual zoo, rural involvement, youth participation, social entrepreneurship, food waste, urban garden plus and eco-happiness and got to work in our small groups on executing the design of these ideas in both innovative and visual ways!
In the evening Janika led a mood cards creation evening with lots of nice paintings done by the group!
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DAY 4 – Report
As usual we started our day with a session of meditation. This time we had the chance to do it outside in the terrace so bird-songs and the sound of the lawnmower were accompanying our thoughts during a few minutes.
After that we had time to remind the previous session through the recording draw activity made by Annie, Vicky, Lisa and Natalia. The 5 principles of graphic facilitation and the 8 essentials were the key actors.
To finish the intro of the day, Olalla made some comments about the evaluation-feedback and with a funny energizer (crossing looks) would start the session.
* My visual vocabulary:
Exercise to place ourselves in our working environment and create a list of words that we usually use connected with our professional field: We had 10 minutes to work individually and then time (40 minutes) for drawing that we have interiorized and come up with visual equivalents and ask for the others opinion to help us to simplify. To end the exercise we had a “chaotic show of” to put in common our work and outcomes (sharing the “challenging concepts” with all the group to create a visual vocabulary for them: “sustainable”, “respect”, “resources”…). This one would be the last activity shorter than usual but charged of interesting contents and practice which were really appreciated by the group.
* Matera trip
Right after the lunch time we took the bus to visit the beautiful city of Matera. In its main square, a guide was waiting for us to start a 2 hours guided tour around its historical area. After the tour we had some free time to explore the city and taste amazing gelatti, coffees, aperitivi… And of course, fall in love with an amazing “tramonto” (sunset) over the city! To end the day we visited a typical restaurant which was settled in a cave to enjoy some Italian pizza!
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Especial post for the amazing “Essential 8″ powered by Brandy Agerbeck. We explained and practiced these 8 elements that you can and should use in your visual creations... lines, lettering, boxes, etc. are not as simple as they seem!
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Day 3 – Report
Starting with a nice mindfulness session followed by Natalia’s jumping game, we were thrown into the first practical task of drawing simple icons having 30 seconds to doodle a random word. Then this session was followed by Olalla’s five principles of graphic facilitation:
1.Visibility and readability: Focus on how coloring, lettering and size all play an important role when you facilitate.
2.Simplicity: Keep it simple. Often there’s not a lot of time so find a fast way of capturing the idea.
3.Clear message: It’s your job to find the balance in how you combine your drawings with key words.
4.Attraction: Think about how you can use the combination of colors, fonts and drawings to make your recording more appealing to the audience.
5.Not without mistakes: And last by not least, you should be prepared to make mistakes. They will happen so embrace them and be creative. Or just use tape! REMEMBER: There’s no perfect. We don’t care about it.
After lunch it was all about style. We were divided into groups reflecting on one of eight aspects of creating a graphic vocabulary: Lettering, Bullets, Lines, Boxes, Colors, Shading, People, Arrows. After the break it was time to elaborate the eight aspects in more detail, so we started looking for inspiration online, going through certain Instagram profiles recommended by Olalla and drawing the unique styles we each liked on large papers displaying the diversity of the group’s preferences. It was beautiful! Magnifico!
Our first job request. For the last session, someone had requested a graphic recording of this guy Drew doing a TEDtalk about lollipops and of course we were ready to help. We had been preparing for this task for the whole day. As a warm-up we were given the task to draw sixteen different visualizations based on words that were already decided and then after this exercise our big debut was upon us. The TEDtalk started, it took six minutes of listening and drawing, three minutes of fine tuning, a six-minute recap and then three more minutes to wrap it up.
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Some of the flipcharts of DAY 2, in which we discovered different models for social innovation and we open the lid of graphic facilitation, yay!
Brain, neurons, memory, colors, different names for graphic facilitation and the rule of simplicity. It was an intense day!
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