Graphic Recording and Facilitation

Graphiking – the art of working visually – is all about supporting individuals and organizations to record, and illustrate, what you are trying to say to increase your audience’s understanding and communicate in a more engaging way. Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording can help you lever greater engagement, creativity and productivity in your work. Graphic Facilitation focuses on interactive ways to support conversations and thinking, and Graphic Recording focuses on live event visual recording, creating a live large-scale visual record of your meeting, event or conference.

Using visual methods in a wide range of settings adds dimensions and depth to a host of activities including meetings, projects, workshops, trainings, focus groups, events and conferences. Here is a sample of how Ichuli uses Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording with clients:

Strategic thinking and development
Building ideas, innovation and solution discovery
Engaging stakeholders
Planning, design and development
Supporting leadership and developing strong teams
Reviewing, evaluating and reflecting

Graphic recording helps teams develop a graphic work flow for their projects and decipher components of their intervention or program design that might be difficult to understand. During graphic recording, a skilled facilitator creates a large, colorful drawing of the conversation that uses images, symbols, key words and phrases to represent ideas that emerge.

Graphic recording and facilitation is important for any creative meeting because it helps to colorfully capture people’s ideas and expressions. It is the perfect way to link complex concepts using visual thinking and make discussion and learning meaningful. When participants visualize their ideas coming together, they are better able to connect and make sense of their projects and problems as a team.

We utilize workshops to help clients generate a lot of ideas fast, clarify their theories of change and organizational vision, and engage in a journey to unpack the quality and appropriateness of their interventions. We work creatively with program teams to help deliver real change using innovative tools that leverage visual representations to define and measure impacts that remain relevant long after the workshop ends.

Internally it is used to increase your team’s understanding of key content and messaging.

Post-meeting, workshop, or event
- Translating internal review notes into clear learnings and actions
- Transforming brainstorm notes into clearly focused points and actions
- Making work plans more engaging and concise – refocus on key objectives
Increasing understanding of key language and messaging for use in communications
The process or flow of work and information within your organization
- Organizational charts and work flows
Increasing engagement in agendas, flipcharts, memos and notices through visuals

Externally it is used to communicate your messages effectively to multiple audiences.

How to summarize a complex strategy in an effective and engaging way
How to communicate your theory of change so people remember it
- Your vision, your mission and how you achieve your work
How to engage people in dense research and thought knowledge
- Illustrating key points in annual or project reports
- Bringing clarity to research documents
How to effectively share evidence of your impact in a clear concise way
Presenting ideas, such as training sessions and presentations without PowerPoint

Graphic Recording and Facilitation

Internally it is used to increase your team’s understanding of key content and messaging.

Externally it is used to communicate your messages effectively to multiple audiences.

Our Past Projets

Discussion of the Journey

Government Stakeholder Design Consultation Workshop

Tackling Teacher Absenteeism

How to stop violence against children

Program Partner and Grant Management

Boosting Banana Productivity in Uganda