LEARN GRAPHIC FACILITATION

Graphic facilitation is a method where you can quickly and easily draw what you want to say and think using simple drawing techniques.

Learn how to effectively communicate complex messages and processes with a few simple strokes.

LEARN GRAPHIC FACILITATION

Create shared understanding of messages and processes through visual facilitation

Engage your surroundings

Engage your colleagues and meeting attendees with visual communication

Empower your role

Empower your role as project manager, trainer, consultant or facilitator

Graphic facilitation courses

Graphic facilitation for beginners

Learn how to draw the first lines and get to grips with the basics of graphic facilitation.

How to build graphic templates

Build on the foundation course and learn how to structure and design your flipcharts and posters when facilitating a workshop or meeting.

Graphic facilitation for project managers

Learn visual facilitation that you can specifically use in your work as a project manager! The course is offered together with the Danish Technological Institute.

Graphic facilitation - Graphic facilitation online course

Get a basic introduction to graphic facilitation - and get more in-depth with the tools - in a live online course. The course is like Graphic Facilitation for Beginners - only online.

Storytelling - with visual effects

Communication is best when it is clear and unambiguous to avoid misunderstandings and doubts. In this course, you'll learn how to build storytelling that emphasises your messages, whether it's a strategy, sales, a project plan or a speech.

Behavioural design and visual nudging

In this course, you will learn how to combine nudging with visual communication to promote desired behaviour in others. Your teachers are Mettelene Jellinggaard, who has 25 years of experience in behavioural management, and me, Marie Rohrsted.

Use me as an external process consultant or project manager

Do you need an external facilitator for your workshop, process or development project?

I help you facilitate the process by looking at the task with different eyes, asking questions and enriching the process.

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Team development: Strengthen your communication and collaboration

What should your communication strategy be when communicating with others who are not like you?

With an E-stimate profile - individually and as a team - you get to know each other's differences so you can better understand each other and strengthen collaboration.

Use less power point

Present or teach in a different way and keep the audience engaged

Create a common language

When everyone has the same picture of what is being talked about, there are fewer misunderstandings

Make complex messages understandable

Use simple drawings to convey an otherwise complex message so that everyone can better understand it.

Strengthen your role as a facilitator

Engage your participants in a new way when you hold meetings in your team, project team or department.

Create greater motivation

Using graphic facilitation gives you a better overview and structure, which creates greater engagement and motivation.

Visual messages are better remembered

We perceive messages 60,000x faster than text, and we remember visual messages far better than text alone.

Nicklas Kany

Managing Director MentorDanmark

Marie is really good - first I did a 1:1 session with her where she taught me a lot of tips and tricks. Then we took it further and made great videos so that the rest of the organisation across the country could benefit from her knowledge and skills. It turned out great, and Marie approaches the task very professionally - so a big recommendation from here!

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Melissa Karina Døssing Christensen

Scrum Master, Danish Crown

I have no - absolutely no - experience in drawing or graphic facilitation, so the starting point was low. But boy have I learnt a lot of great drawing techniques. It works great for capturing my meeting participants. In a world full of technology, online meetings and long hours behind screens, it's really cool to work tactilely and creatively. Marie is a great teacher and she gets my highest recommendations. Through simple drawing techniques, presence and fun challenges, she provides a good introduction to graphic facilitation. Get going - it can only make you happy!

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Gitte Helverskov Marcussen

Senior Consultant, Joblife A/S

The best, fun and really educational day in good company I absolutely cannot draw or write legibly - and that's just the way it is! - I thought. After just one day with Marie from Talkingstrokes, I learnt simple techniques that allow me to spice up my work environment presentations with simple homemade posters and neater handwriting on the flipchart. There's still a long way to go before I have a solid line - but the first (and perhaps most difficult) step has been taken. Now I DARE to do it! So if you're facilitating meetings or giving presentations and training - and are still only comfortable using PowerPoint, get in touch with Marie and get the courage to give your work more edge and make it more interesting for others.

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Belinda Donkin

CEO, HeartTeam Denmark

I've just been on a course in graphic facilitation with Marie - and had my very own little party. It's so crazy - afterwards - to look at the significant development that has happened from page 1 to page 17 (as many A4 sheets as I managed to draw over). Marie is an incredibly skilful communicator and teacher. So you might think you can't draw. But you'll get rid of that belief once you've been on a course with Marie

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Anne Sophie Sehested Münster

Founder and CEO of Beyond Babies

We had Marie in for an online presentation on graphic facilitation and with her pedagogical and skilful graphic skills, she managed to teach all the participants to draw and understand the meaning and importance of illustrations when you need to get your message across and make sure the recipient understands it. Even though it was online, with her very professional setup, she managed to make everyone feel like they were drawing with her. It was great to gain knowledge and insight into a field that you don't deal with on a daily basis, but which, thanks to Marie, you were inspired to try out in your work processes.

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René Bomholt

Change management consultant

Drawing is fun and anyone can do it. You just need to learn some simple basic strokes and then play with your own expression. I draw as a reflection and then add words to draw readers in with a drawing that has a twinkle in its eye. After a few hours in Marie's company, I've refreshed the basics and learnt some new tricks.

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Helle Rasmussen Beck

Owner of Bech Consult ApS

As a project manager, I make my living designing processes and delivering results that are dependent on others believing in it and buying into it. I attended the course because I was curious if nudging and visual communication were the processes and tools that could help me achieve my results. Both Mettelene Jellinggaard and Marie Rohrsted have a lot of experience using nudging and visual communication in everyday life, and this rubbed off on the course. Not only did I get the theory behind the tools and processes and insight into how I can use nudging and visual communication in my everyday life, I also got to try it out on the course. Thank you for a great and relevant course.

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Annette Westermann

National Project Manager

The Nudging and Visual Means course was a great experience. The content was coherent and meaningful throughout and the tools were extremely useful, which is quickly reflected in work tasks afterwards. Best recommendations for the course and the two trainers Marie and Mettelene.

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Michael Jensen

Application Manager, Falck Healthcare

I was previously responsible for integrations with Microsoft's Dynamics CRM system, where we had issues with data transfer from Navision. A task that had been teasing us for a long time. When I got on the job, I could see that the nature of the task could quickly develop into a major project if we did nothing. Marie came in as project manager. I'll never forget our first project meeting, where Marie called the right people into the meeting, both decision-makers and technicians, so everyone was familiar with the task. I have never experienced such a meeting before, Marie was incredibly prepared and had drawn the entire process so that everyone could see it visually, and at the same time she had also drawn the project plan etc. When the meeting was over, everyone agreed on the next step, had a detailed and visual understanding of the task, and we moved forward quickly and efficiently.

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Lars Møldrup

Municipal Director, Tønder Municipality

When Tønder Municipality's new municipal council had to formulate visions and strategies for the election period at a 24-hour seminar, we chose to document the seminar visually. We did this because we know that the visual supports the spoken and written word. Over the course of an entire day, Marie visualised the points made by the politicians on 8 large posters. After the seminar, we added photos of the posters to the vision and strategy plan that came out of the seminar. This kind of visualisation gives the politicians a sense of recognition of the process they have been involved in. This, we believe, increases ownership. We also use the posters when we communicate our vision and strategy plan internally in the organisation.

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Anne Skare Nielsen

Chief Futurist, Universal Futurists

We met a huge group of futurists at Margård and Marie willingly volunteered for something as abstract as visualising future dreams, trends and possibilities. Marie is trustworthy and extremely accommodating. Many visualisation experts make "nice minutes", but Marie brings so much more to the process - a deeper understanding, presence and a lift that the participants would otherwise not be able to see themselves. Best recommendations from here!

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Marianne Thyboe

Spiritual mentor, coach and author

Marie's coaching programme has strengthened my business and developed me far more than I imagined and thought possible. Marie sees me and my blindspots and asks the right questions so that I can easily reach my next level. She manages to create a noticeable and clear difference that helps you see things in a clearer light and act on them effortlessly because your deeply ingrained habits have changed. Already after the first session with Marie, I experienced a significant developmental journey. I have become more conscious, have gained more courage and self-confidence, and this has manifested itself positively in several areas of my life. The coaching programme has also developed my business. Among other things, I have changed my target group, which has resulted in new and exciting customers. I have started writing my next book and found my unique way to market on social media. I recommend all of Marie Rohrsted's coaching programmes, whether it's personal and/or professional. Thank you, Marie, for being an invaluable support and guide on my journey.

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Lisbeth Troels-Smith

Product Governance Manager, LB Forsikring

One day in Marie's world and everyone - as in EVERYONE - can deliver their messages in simple drawings. You get pen to paper after 5 minutes, good and easy advice, energising coaching, shared AHA experiences and lots of praise. You will strengthen your ability to: boil long explanations down to a few images that are easy to decode, illustrate difficult concepts through association, trigger more thoughts towards the recipients, e.g. during a retrospective. Since the first course, I have plunged deeper into Marie's world. 1-1 courses in "hair and faces", ongoing sparring about messages and facilitation, markers, drawing tips and much more. Graphic facilitation is therefore not just another course in the series of competence boosts. It is an ongoing development of specialised skills in your communication. Highest recommendations. It's so much fun!

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Previous customers

Companies and organisations

Cases

I have (also) helped them

Defence

Course

At the Danish Defence Air Technical Training Squadron, I held a course in graphic facilitation for their training team and administration.

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Visuals, whether on flipcharts, whiteboards or smartboards, should be seen as a complement to power point, and together they can enhance learning and help students understand and remember new concepts and processes.

We went through the basic elements and how to build templates for meetings, workshops and training.

During the two days, we went through:
🖍 The basics of graphic facilitation
🖍 Visualised lesson plans, agendas and processes
🖍 Large format and layout were practised

"It's easier than you think", "With just a few strokes I can draw" and "You can use it in many ways" - some of the participants said.

Danish Technological Institute

Visual summary

Do you find it difficult to remember everything that's said when you're at a conference?

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Then maybe you need to gather the day's golden nuggets in one place!

I helped the Danish Technological Institute with this when they organised the conference The Great Secretary Day 2021 at Comwell in Copenhagen.

The amazing speakers from the day were:

Mia Wagner, Henrik Leslye, Line Ullmann, Yvonne Evers and Charlotte Bøving. And last but not least, thanks to Louise Wolff, who ran the show!

Tønder Municipality

Course for subject specialists and development consultants

12 department heads, subject specialists and project managers from Tønder Municipality got to draw for more than 12 hours in 2 days.

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I spent two exciting and creative days with a team of super creative students.

Agendas and processes were visualised
Abstract concepts like co-creation, values and ownership were iconised
Large format templates ready to use at work

Contact me

Are you considering whether graphic facilitation can be used in your company or organisation?

Drop me a line. I'll get back to you as soon as possible to talk about how I can help you.

Frequently asked questions about graphic facilitation

What is graphic facilitation?

Graphic or visual facilitation helps you visualise words and messages in meeting agendas, project plans, processes or minutes. It makes it easier for you to facilitate, plan and execute processes, meetings, workshops and conferences.

It does this because you get to set images and words on volatile concepts so that you reach a common understanding.

You use illustrations and icons in combination with words to facilitate a process, meeting or workshop. It gives all participants a common understanding of content and goals because our minds find it easier to remember images than text. It provides a common frame of reference.

You can concretely use the method as a tool to:

diaries
summaries
project planner
processes
brainstorming
Feedback and dialogue
meetings
workshops
Education
Change, strategy and innovation processes
conferences