Are you a facilitator wanting to add visuals to your clients?
Are you a visual practitioner who wants to become a facilitator and/or support the facilitative process with your visuals?
Here is where those two worlds come together!
Enhance your facilitation practice with our self-paced course designed specifically for professional visual practitioners and facilitators. By merging visual techniques with the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process, you'll increase participant engagement and foster a shared vision that enriches meetings—making them both productive and enjoyable.
Whether you're an AI Facilitator looking to incorporate visual methods or an experienced Visual Practitioner aiming to integrate AI into your offerings, this course will empower you to create an interactive and dynamic environment for both online and in-person engagements.
NOTE: This is a self-paced class with live office hours.
Upon Registration, you will receive a welcome email with access to the course complete with materials and invitations for live sessions throughout the year.
Course Highlights
You'll receive a comprehensive toolkit of visual resources, templates, and exercises aligned with the Appreciative Inquiry 5D Framework: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, and Destiny/Deliver. This structured approach will enable you to customize facilitation tools tailored to your clients' needs, enhancing your practice and increasing the value you bring to projects.
Learning Outcomes
Session 1: DEFINE/DISCOVER
Explore how to utilize visuals and AI for effective discovery meetings to learn if you are a best fit for your client or to strengthen your client relationship.
Session 2: DREAM
Leverage a series of visual templates to envision common goals and desired outcomes, both for your meetings and to set your intention for your learning journey.
Session 3: DESIGN
Engage in co-creation as we custom design visual templates based on developed AI questions, enriching our shared library of resources.
Session 4: DESTINY/DELIVER
Identify the most effective analog and digital visual tools to support impactful conversations, choosing what best suits your comfort level and objectives.
Materials and Support
Visual templates and exercises provided can be tailored for use with individuals, teams, organizations, or communities.
Target Audience
This course is designed for:
- AI Facilitators and meeting organizers looking to enhance their skills with visuals.
- Visual Practitioners eager to integrate Appreciative Inquiry into their methodologies.
Join me to deepen your understanding of the synergy between visuals and Appreciative Inquiry, and transform your facilitative practice today!
Questions? Email Heather.
About Your Instructor
Heather Leavitt Martinez (she/her/hers) is a visual practitioner, Appreciative Inquiry & Resilience facilitator, and award-winning author who lives in Durango, Colorado.
With over 25 years of design experience, Heather has applied her visual and virtual skills by supporting leadership development training, high-performing teams, and change management using strategic visualization. She specializes in approach design for virtual and in-person meetings, off-sites, and retreats.
Heather also supports facilitators with their meeting approach design, developing visuals that support breakthrough conversations, and rapid-capture lettering when working at the front of the room.
Heather won the IMPACT award from the International Association of Facilitators and the Game Changer Award for co-creating a lead visual facilitation practice based on AI.