Houston, Texas on April 4-5, 2024

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Learn the Basics of Graphic Recording

Join us for a hands-on workshop with
Christopher Fuller & Peter Durand

This fun, interactive workshop will be both an exploration of foundational theory AND hands-on, practical skills-building for graphic recording and visual communication.

As a workshop participant, you will learn the basics of “scribing” to help you better communicate ideas graphically, gain confidence as a visual thinker, and understand the power of real-time visual storytelling. These skills are essential as professionals to have an impact on collaborative design and group decision-making.

All attendees will also receive a Learn2Scribe Resource Guide with helpful ideas, lessons, plus links to tips and tools for graphic recording.

Each participant will also earn a Certificate of Completion showing they have gone through a distinctive course designed and delivered by two of the field's leading experts.

Workshop Outline

What are workshop participants say:

We have had participants join from Nashville, Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, and the San Francisco Bay area. Your fellow students range from experienced facilitators, university professors, and veteran graphic recorders to complete newbies. 

We asked people why they came to Nashville for the Learn2Scribe Workshop.

Here's what they said...

“Practicing the exercises, and learning from others.”
– Belinda from Houston

“More experience with graphic recording!”
– Nancy H. from Nashville

“Learn how to conduct whiteboard sessions with clients.”
– Michael W. from Nashville

“I'm a complete rookie and want to learn industry best practices to scribing, how to be a better listener to capture the best content/ideas, learn how to do lettering and typefaces better for the titles/headers of my scribing. I'm excited to see the different styles and approaches of other scribes, learn about the best and different kinds of markers/tools.”
– Evelyn from Las Vegas

“I’ve been feeling a bit under-inspired with my recording ALSO, I feel a lot of stage fright when it comes
to drawing in front of others. My skill confidence waivers.”
– Claire R. from Oakland, CA

“I hope to gain some initial knowledge and skills that will help me begin including
scribing and graphic facilitation in my consulting services.”
— K.B. from Detroit

The Location

Exact venue location coming soon!

Your Instructors

Christopher Fuller

Christopher is a Los Angeles-based Graphic Facilitator with over 30 years of professional experience.

In 1992, after receiving a degree in Visual Art from Rutgers College, Christopher volunteered to help "scribe" a community-wide "DesignShop" in Orlando, Florida, facilitated by MG Taylor Corporation, an innovative and influential consulting company.

That initial meeting led to him becoming a core MG Taylor staff member. Christopher's work with MG Taylor helped spread the worldwide adoption of graphic recording as a standard meeting practice when MG Taylor partnered with the global consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP in 1995 and, later, Capgemini Consulting to develop their Accelerated Solutions Environment process.

After leaving MG Taylor, he founded his company, Griot's Eye Inc. (griotseye.com), in 1998 with a mission to use the power of graphics and rapid visualization to assist organizations in telling their stories.‍

Christopher has since provided graphic facilitation services at strategy meetings across five continents, twenty-plus countries, and forty-six states for companies such as Google, The Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Health, Disney, Audi Motors (Berlin, Germany), UniCredit Bank (Turin, Italy), and NPR. He previously taught graphic facilitation and strategic modeling skills for UniCredit's UniManagement program in Turin, Italy, online with the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business's MBA program and to students as young as first grade in Orlando, Florida.

He is also the founder of The Black Music Project, a 2023 Webby Award Honoree for Education Websites and Mobile Sites that celebrates, promotes, and preserves the idea that the history of Black American music is the story of America by using multimedia storytelling and graphic facilitation techniques he learned throughout his career.

You can find Christopher Fuller at griotseye.com, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.

Peter Durand

Currently based in Houston, Peter began his graphic recording career in 1995 supporting design-thinking sessions for the Ernst & Young Accelerated Solutions Environment and MG Taylor Corporation.

Three years later, he founded Alphachimp (alphachimp.com) as a graphic facilitation company, and in 2012 began producing explainer videos and delivering onsite and online training in visual communication and design thinking skills.

He has been considered and innovator in the field by combining traditional illustration, painting, and printmaking techniques with digital media for large-scale conferences such as The World Economic Forum, HiMSS, PopTech, TEDxNashville, TEDMED, Ciudad de las Ideas, and the EG Conference.

Peter has delivered graphic recording training workshops for teams at large and small organizations, including Facebook, the NIKE Foundation, Deloitte, Accenture, T. Rowe Price, Capgemini, community groups, and nonprofits.

As a facilitator for the Office of Strategy & Innovation at Vanderbilt Medical Center, an MG Taylor-designed collaborative innovation space at a major research hospital in Nashville, Durand facilitates large-scale design-thinking sessions in the fields of biomedical informatics, electronic health records, and patient experience.

In 2017, Peter received an appointment as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago where he teaches a course on visual communication for the Masters of Science in Law program. Thanks to an adventurous and encouraging family, Peter was born in Kenya, grew up in the green hills of East Tennessee, and studied art and design in the St. Louis, Paris, and Krakow, Poland.

You can find Peter Durand at alphachimp.com, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Save Your Spot!

Get hands-on, one-on-one training with two of the most experienced graphic facilitators in the field. Give yourself and your team the basic skills, knowledge, and confidence to create large drawings for group meetings, brainstorming sessions, community gathering, and conferences.

Pricing: Take advantage of early bird registration before March 15, 2024 and save $50. Students, teachers and members of non-profit organizations receive approximately a 50% discount.
Registration Fee: includes all supplies, course materials, meals listed in agenda, and parking.
Refund Policy: 50% refund available if cancellation received in writing 30 days less than start date of the event.

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