Author Archives: Michelle Laurie
Open Space Technology for Effective Meetings
I am organizing two meetings in the next month that will use Open Space Technology. For one it was purposeful and for the other it simply emerged as the best method to ensure the meeting meets the needs of participants. … Continue reading
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Climate Change 201 in the making
In 2010, with the help of creative colleagues (Ingrid Liepa and Zeb Hansell) I pulled together a short animation on climate change science for the Columbia Basin. I was coordinating a three year project on helping local governments to adapt … Continue reading
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Workshop Alert – Rosviz is back!
I am excited to announce the 3rd annual graphic facilitation workshop (aka Rosviz!) in beautiful Rossland, BC, Canada, July 18-20th, 2012. You are invited to this experiential workshop which takes place almost entirely at the drawing surface! We’ll start the … Continue reading
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Facilitation Resource Alert
Hello facilitators and non-facilitators! Where do you look for ideas, inspiration and validation when you want to design, host or facilitate a great meeting? I have a set of people, books and weblinks that I often go to when I … Continue reading
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2011 in review – Thanks WordPress!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. It’s been great to review the stats they generated including the top 5 referring sites, top blog posts, searches by visitors and more. Thanks WordPress for all … Continue reading
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DIY Wall Board for Graphic Facilitation
A few months back I posted a question on the International Forum of Visual Practitioners Linked In Group asking: Has anyone made a portable ‘wall’ (that fits into a car) to bring to meetings that don’t have great walls and … Continue reading
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Ode to Rossland
I work from a home office in this beautiful mountain town in southern British Columbia. I recently wrote a post about feeling isolated so I thought it only right to also share why most of the time, I am grateful! … Continue reading
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Discover Your Passion
Discover Your Passion was one of the messages Christian Begin shared with a small yet captivated audience at Rossland Mountain Filmfest’s Journey of An Adverture Filmmaker. Christian gave an animated account of his career from starting out in Quebec, then … Continue reading
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