Dough wrote: Reinhard and Joelle-- Do either of you have examples of the kinds of drawings people do? This sounds exciting, but I wonder if there are a lot of people who object, saying, "I could never draw...."
Dough, of course people normally say "I could never draw" before they start to do it. We made several experiences with drawing people. Besides the beautiful examples Joelle described we could shortly mention the following situations: 1. We use 'Templates', that means posters with a little bit of metaphoric drawing, done by us first, and lots of blank space for people to take over and draw the posters themselves: - this summer, in a conference of IT people, who began a change process of two years, we asked the participants to define the contents of four different change projects. In groups of eight they first had a brainstorming and then started to draw. It was 300 people in 40 groups, and the results were immediately put to the wall. Members of the board, who had not seen the pictures before, presented the drawings to the auditorium. A process of one hour alltogether. Some representatives had beeb afraid that many people would step back, but al of them came out with beautiful pictures. There will be a gallery now. - the same we will do with the 150 participants of IAF Europe in october in the Netherlands, were as a start up they will draw their expectations for the conference in 25 groups. 2. Self image: 12 regional leaders of a consulting company took half an hour to make 3 drawings on flip charts, showing their future. The pictures showed in shocking clarity the unavoidable end of the company, something no one would have dared to express in words. Three months later they were gone. 3 representatives of a IT Company were seeking a common future. They made excellent drawings showing now and future on flip charts, much more important than words. 3. Workshops: 20 trainers in Austria made spontaneous illustrations of a fairy tale I told them, and then one of them retold the tale according to the pictures, they almost died with laughter. 30 facilitators made a large drawing of their professional lives, starting on a time scale, with special drawings for highlights, before talking about their insights. All of these people had never drawn in public, most of them also not at home, many of them were shy first. All of them had a fun bigger than words. It really is a shame, that I have to describe pictures with words!!!!! I understand, that in a network pictures are not allowed, and at the same time, since pictures are my language, I feel handicapped like hell. If you want to see pictures, please write to me privately! Reinhard Kuchenmueller & Stifel VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE Munich Germany Tel: +49-89-202 447 48 http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
