Several weeks ago I was part of the second of a three part Interfaith Trialogue where members of the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities came together to ask questions about each other an the views of other faiths in a safe place. A week later I attended the third in an interfaith series in my […]
Ink on Paper Scares Me
Ink scares me. All mistakes are visible. If I share something with mistakes people will think less of me. I’m coming to grips with my nervousness using a rule from Open Space as a mantra. “Whatever was supposed to happen did.” Accept that every mark made was supposed to happen. This doesn’t mean that you […]
Haikubes – Unleash Your Team’s Inner Poet
Unbox. Roll. Compose. That’s pretty much it. Oh, you have to compose a haiku using only the words that are face-up on the 63 cubes when you roll them and the haiku has to be around a theme (there’s a cube for themes). Take out the theme cube and you have a great and creative […]
A Passover Sketchnote Seder
This year I decided to hold a sketchnote seder. I started by sketchnoting the fifteen major seder steps on a nine foot long paper on top of my dining room table. I placed two colored gel pens at each seat and only put out a water glass and a wine glass as the place setting. […]
Story Arcs (sketchnote from InnoVAte Virginia 2017)
At this year’s InnoVAte Virginia Jason Allen Ashlock (@jasonashlock on Twitter) gave the afternoon keynote on “The Storyteller’s Secret: How Narrative Intelligence Can Transform Your Organization.” A highly engaging speaker, he started with a hook, then told us he was going to talk about five types of story arcs that businesses use to tell a […]