Art of Awakening Visual Facilitation Lab - Singapore AUGUST 2025
Visual facilitation is the process of identifying, expressing, moving ideas and conversations forward using visual tools, models, and method
Date and time
Location
VFL @ Katong Point
451 Joo Chiat Rd Katong Point Singapore, 427664 SingaporeRefund Policy
Agenda
DAY 1: Visual Thinking Foundations
Framing the opportunities of Visual Facilitation
Overcoming "I Cant Draw" and the power of visual storytlling
Foundations of visual thinking: build your visual Vocabulary
Drawing on the wall: best practices in live scribing
Flip chart Flip: redesigning a professional communication item
Visual Listening
DAY 2
Review and contextualization of skills to your challenges
Visual Facilitation best practices and tools
Design your visual event, presentation or meeting
Metaphors: Building blocks of Influence and meaning
Working with and designing visual templates
Present your new visual tool, workshop or client session!
Visual Reflection and check out
Welcome, check-in, context, energizer
About this event
- Event lasts 1 day 8 hours
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Unlock the Power of Visual Facilitation to Transform Your Meetings, Trainings, and Teams
In today's complex, fast-paced, information-rich world, traditional communication methods are no longer enough. To truly engage your audience, foster creativity, and drive meaningful outcomes, you need to harness the power of visual facilitation. The Visual Facilitation Lab is a hands-on, two-day workshop designed to equip facilitators, trainers, coaches, consultants, and researchers with the skills and tools to make your sessions more impactful, memorable, and effective.
Imagine your meetings delivering not just results, but real change—where every participant is engaged, ideas flow freely, and decisions are made with clarity and confidence. With over 20 years of experience in visual facilitation, we will guide you through the essential techniques to bring your sessions to life, ensuring your messages are not only seen but remembered and acted upon.
Is this for you?
If you lead teams, design processes, or facilitate meetings where communication and collaboration are key, this workshop is for you. Are you tired of the same old meetings where engagement is low and outcomes are vague? Do you want to stand out as a facilitator or trainer who inspires action and innovation? The Visual Facilitation Lab is your gateway to creating a dynamic environment where ideas come alive, and participants leave with a clear vision and a concrete plan.
Why Visual Facilitation?
Research shows that 85% of people are visual learners, yet most facilitators rely heavily on verbal or text-based communication. This disconnect can lead to misunderstandings, disengagement, and missed opportunities. By integrating visual tools into your facilitation, you can significantly increase participant engagement, improve information retention, and drive collaborative problem-solving.
Visual facilitation allows you to:
✅ Make abstract ideas tangible and actionable.
✅ Foster a culture of innovation and creativity.
✅ Enhance communication clarity across diverse teams.
✅ Create tangible takeaways that reinforce commitments and actions.
Don’t let outdated methods hold you back. The cost of doing things the same way is too high—missed opportunities, disengaged teams, and lackluster results. By embracing visual facilitation, you can transform the way you work, leading to better outcomes and more satisfied clients.
Day 1: Mastering Visual Fundamentals
Kickstart your journey into visual facilitation by mastering the core principles of visual thinking and communication. By the end of Day 1, you will have a strong visual vocabulary, the ability to generate ideas visually, and the confidence to present your concepts with clarity and impact.
Key Outcomes:
✅ Visual Vocabulary Development: Learn how to quickly and effectively generate ideas and convey them visually, enhancing your communication skills.
✅ Creative Flipcharts: Design and create engaging visual flipcharts tailored to your training or meeting needs.
✅ Clear Lettering & Layout: Master the art of clear, legible lettering and effective layout design for visual presentations.
✅ Foundations of Visual Thinking: Understand and apply the fundamental tools and techniques of visual thinking, empowering you to listen, synthesize, and present ideas visually.
✅ Whole-Brain Communication: Develop a 'whole-brain' approach to communication by combining images, words, and colors to create meaningful and memorable messages.
✅ Visual Workshop Activities: Engage in practical exercises to solidify your skills, including specialized templates and tools for group learning and facilitation.
Day 2: Visual Facilitation Best Practices
Building on the skills acquired in Day 1, Day 2 delves into the art of visual facilitation, equipping you with the tools to energize group processes, enhance decision-making, and drive engagement using visuals. You will leave with a comprehensive toolkit to apply visual methods in various business settings.
Key Outcomes:
✅ Visual Facilitation Integration: Seamlessly integrate visual recording skills into your facilitation practice, enhancing group communication and engagement.
✅ Designing with Visuals: Learn how to design and facilitate meetings, trainings, and workshops with powerful visual tools that drive participation and results.
✅ Dynamic Facilitation Tools: Expand your facilitator toolkit with a range of visual methods for agenda design, participant check-ins, action planning, decision-making, and strategic visioning.
✅ Metaphors & Visuals: Develop and apply metaphors and visuals to support facilitation objectives, making complex concepts more accessible and engaging.
✅ Collaborative Drawing: Boost problem-solving and idea generation by involving participants in collaborative drawing activities.
✅ Facilitating with Visuals: Experience hands-on practice in facilitating groups and teams using visual tools, ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard and ideas are brought to life.
Join Our Creative Community
By participating in the Visual Facilitation Lab, you become part of a vibrant community of professionals dedicated to transforming the way we communicate and collaborate. You'll gain not just skills, but connections with like-minded individuals who are committed to driving change through visual thinking.
We would love to have you with us and look forward to a fun, meaningful, and powerful learning adventure!
Previous Sessions were all SOLD OUT! Book your seats NOW to avoid disappointment
For Enquiries:
Do contact denise@art-of-awakening.com to inquire for future Visual Facilitation Lab and other Visual Programmes.
Frequently asked questions
We will give you the foundations for graphic recording including hand lettering, live capture, & visual synthesis. You will have at least 3 opportunities to practice these skills over the 2 days, giving you the confidence to bring this into your meetings & events. Of course, practice makes progress!
Visual facilitation is the use of drawings, diagrams, and other visual tools to enhance communication, idea generation, and problem-solving in group settings. It can help you to clarify your thinking, create a shared understanding in groups, and encourage collaborative problem-solving.
No! Visual facilitation is about communicating ideas visually, not about creating perfect artwork. We’ll teach you simple techniques that anyone can master, regardless of drawing skill level.
The Visual Facilitation Lab is designed for leaders, facilitators, coaches, and educators who want to improve communication, engagement, and problem-solving in their sessions. Whether you're leading workshops, meetings, or group discussions, visual facilitation can enhance your impact.
You’ll learn practical, hands-on skills, including how to create visual summaries, map out ideas, and guide group discussions visually. We’ll also cover tools and techniques that will help you and your team make meaning with a marker in your hands mmediately.
Visuals, of course! Our Visual Facilitation Lab is unique because it focuses specifically on integrating visual tools with facilitation techniques. It’s highly interactive, with plenty of opportunities to practice and apply what you learn in real-time. We also bring in our over 20 years of working
Yes! You will recieve an exclusive great starter kit of markers from Neuland worth $50. In addition, we provide participants with a variety of visual templates, handouts, and resources that you can start using right away in your own sessions.
By using visual tools, you can improve communication, align your team’s thinking, foster innovation, and create memorable takeaways that reinforce decisions and actions. One of our clients recently mentioned that our visuals "bring joy into the room".
To ensure personalized attention and hands-on learning, we keep our group sizes small, typically between 8-12 participants.
This is a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience. You’ll be doing real-time visual work, engaging in group activities, and receiving peer feedback to refine your skills.
Absolutely! Visual facilitation can be applied in both in-person and virtual environments. While the primary focus of the VFL is on materials and processes you create manually in the room many of these skills can be scaled to bring into virtual spaces.
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Our visual thinking tools and trainings, support teams to generate more ideas, focus on the shared vision and see the big picture. We create an environment allowing participants to re-ignite and focus creativity in individuals, teams, and organizations!
Some of our Programmes include:
- Visual Facilitation Lab, VFL (Signature Programme)
- Virtual Visual Facilitation Lab (VVFL)
- Visual Recording 2.0 *NEW*
- Visual Sketchnoting (Introduction)
- Visual Sketchnoting (Intermediate)
- Breathing In, Drawing Out (BIDO)