What we’re about
NOVA Scribes is a free and open forum for visual practitioners to share their knowledge.
We are anyone who uses visuals to move others: consultants and facilitators who use visuals, graphic recorders, scribes, sketchnoters, and others!
We're all volunteers! Anyone who wants to can be an organizer or presenter.
The proceeds from the events go to:
• the presenters,
• charities that support the arts as a means of bridging people and communities such as the Whitethorne Foundation, which brings arts education to indigenous communities,
• honorariums for new graphic recorders to practice scribing our events, and
• scholarships to bring new attendees to events like the IFVP conference.
We have organized classes, graphic jams, open spaces, and webinars to share skills and learn from each other. We record our webinars for anyone to watch later, and if you're interested in presenting a topic, please let us know! We organize our events using the Meetup app. You can find us at www.meetup.com/NOVA-Scribes
It's free to be a NOVA Scribes Member; please join us!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Drop in Visual Coaching with Christina MerkleyLink visible for attendees$10.00
NOVA Scribes is very happy to host Christina Merkley as she offers YOU drop-in visual coaching. Christina is a helped define the field of visual coaching in the 1990s with her work with David Sibbet and The Grove Consultants International. Bring any issues you're facing (and don't mind sharing with the other participans), and allow Christina to help guide you through her emergent and highly visual style of coaching. Anyone can bring anything! Issues can be internal (within yourself) or external (dealing with others.) Together, we'll meet what is, co-create our process and approach, and explore how visuals can move humans through self-work. Bring your inner and outer concerns, problems, and celebrations to share.
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⚠️ Unlike our other online workshops, we will NOT be recording this or sharing it on YouTube later. You must attend to participate.
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Connect with Christina on her website https://www.shift-it-coach.com/ where you can find out more about her...- Coaching
- Retreats
- Visual satsangs
- Power dynamics
- Visual skills
- Visual coach certification
- Private training
- In-house training
- Home study kits
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Christina Merkley's holistic methods bridge Change Management and Strategy with Creativity and Energetics.With a Masters Degree in Organizational Development & Transformation (ODT), she was an early practitioner of visual methods, working extensively throughout North America and Europe.
Specializing in Strategic Visioning, working for such notable clients as Hewlett-Packard, eBay, Stanford University, The American Institute of CPAs, BBC, U.S. Department of Energy, The Institute for the Future and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
She was one of a handful of Graphic Facilitation trainers in the world at that time, and has played an instrumental role in the global spread of the specialty.
Through her SHIFT-IT School, she has trained thousands in all aspects of working visually (Studio Work, Graphic Recording, Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Coaching). Many of the notable names in this niche industry have been or are her clients and students.
Christina is an early innovator in the Visual Coaching niche, using the visual methods with individuals, partners and intimate groups. She mentors other practitioners in her tools via Visual Coach Certification, and has a vibrant international Private Practice.
Well versed in many process modalities: Strategic Planning, Visioning, Scenarios, Team Performance, Conflict Resolution, Appreciative Inquiry, Alchemical Hypnotherapy, NLP, Voice Dialogue, Trauma and Attachment, Parts Work, BodyTalk, Shamanic Journeying and Systemic Constellations, to name a few.
In 2009, she experienced a Kundalini Awakening that heightened her intuitive, mediumistic and energy abilities, which continue to unfold. Shakti is increasingly shifting her work and service into non dual Visual Satsangs with Self Inquiry.
Additionally Christina co-hosts the Shifting the Power programs with Anneke Lucas, for Survivors of extreme abuse, and Providers who assist across the spectrum of trauma.
Christina lives in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and works with clients globally.
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🧡 Christina will be donating her proceeds from this event to the Whitethorne Foundation, which provides art education and scholarships to indigenous peoples. - PILOT: Growing your Business Partnerships with Emily MillsLink visible for attendees
This is a PILOT workshop for a session Emily Mills and Brian Tarallo will be teaching at IFVP 2024 which will be taking place in Montclair, NJ, July 30 - Aug 2.
In this workshop, we will share our experiences as seasoned employer and new-to-hiring practitioners.
Goals:
- Give never-hired-before practitioners the tips and resources they need to get started with their first partnership or hire
- Give experienced employers some new ideas to improve their existing hiring/partnership practices
- Create opportunities for attendees to connect and learn from us and each other
We will discuss:
- The spectrum of partnership
- Benefits of partnerships/hiring
- How to know when to hire/partner
- What to do to get ready to hire/partner
- Practical tips on how to hire/partner
- Resources, ideas, & best practices
EMILY MILLS
Emily Mills is the founder of SketchAcademy.com, and author of The Art of Visual Notetaking. Emily has taught sketchnoting since 2017 to thousands all over the world using her professional experience drawing for brands like Subway, Delta Airlines, Chick-Fil-A, S&P, and Magic Johnson.BRIAN TARALLO
Brian Tarallo has been a visual facilitator since 2009. He is the managing director of Lizard Brain and one of the founding members of both NOVA Scribes and the OGSystems Visioneering Team. He has worked as both an employee and a contractor for government agencies, large companies, small firms, and independent practitioners.***
This workshop will be recorded and posted on YouTube for anyone who cannot attend. You can find the YouTube link in the Comments section of this NOVA Scribes Meetup event once the workshop video has been uploaded to YouTube. - Rachel Smith: Inside / Outside Perspectives: What’s It Like to BE Your Client?Link visible for attendees
Join Rachel Smith and Brian Tarallo for a perspective-shifting conversational interview exploring what it was like for a seasoned practitioner to transition from being an external consultant to (first) a program manager and (later) to a team manager “on the inside” at a client company.
Rachel carried her facilitation skills into her new roles, but found herself flexing and adapting as she figured out how best to apply them in that environment. Her perspective has changed as a result of her experiences, deepening her empathy and understanding of a day in the life of a consulting client. Hers is only one piece of the picture, and we hope you will come prepared to add your voice and share your experiences as we broaden our collective understanding of what it’s like to be our clients.
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Rachel Smith’s career has taken a winding path, including teaching art to middle schoolers and multimedia and web design to university faculty; owning a graphic design business; serving as vice president of an educational nonprofit association; consulting & training in graphic facilitation and strategic visioning; and leading a team of project managers at a large tech company. She excels at creating safe spaces for people to do their best work and maintains an irrepressible curiosity about what happens at the intersection of technology and human collaboration. She divides her spare time between making modern quilts and playing World of Warcraft.
You can follow her at https://digitalfacilitation.net and on her quilt blog at https://quiltsmith.world
Rachel offers private group trainings only - contact her if you're interested. Topics include general facilitation, visual facilitation, vision & strategy, and high-performing teams. She offers coaching to team leaders and visual facilitators on the same topics.
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This workshop will be recorded and posted on YouTube for anyone who cannot attend. You can find the YouTube link in the Comments section of this NOVA Scribes Meetup event once the workshop video has been uploaded to YouTube.
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If you are interested in graphic recording this workshop for a small honorarium, please reach out to brian@lizardbrain.com. We are only accepting one graphic recorder: please let new practitioners have the experience if you are already an accomplished scribe. One scribe only please: first come, first served!
- Author Talk: Gisela Wendling, PhD - The Liminal Pathways StudyLink visible for attendees$15.00
In continuation of our Author Talk series, NOVA Scribes is pleased to host Gisela Wendling, PhD, as she shares her Liminal Pathways Study.
Change is a process, not an event, and it’s messy. Change is also unpredictable and ambiguous, sometimes volatile, often incomplete, and occasionally truly transformative. In this session, Gisela will introduce you to The Liminal Pathways Study, a 250-page-long, visually rendered book written for the curious practitioner. The study examines the benefits of the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework (LPF) and reveals essential insights about what is really going on when people experience and move through change. This book also highlights how the idea of the liminal (referring to the in-between period in change) opens new ways of thinking about and practicing designing and leading change.
In addition to introducing you to the Study and the LPF, you will also be able to apply the framework to a personal change challenge. We will have time to explore how Gisela and other practitioners use the framework in their practice.
The LPF is an easy-to-understand and highly memorable visual framework. It depicts the universally recognized phases of change and includes several visual metaphors that immediately evoke a deeper understanding of what is involved in a change process. For example, it points to the outer support processes that leaders, facilitators, or anyone supporting change can put into place so that people can do the inner work required for real change to come to fruition. Originating from my doctoral work 20 years ago, I have been applying and evolving this framework to support my clients—leaders, their teams, and their organizations—in bringing about desired futures.This session is intended for anyone working with groups in change: facilitators, consultants, and OD practitioners
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Gisela will be donating her proceeds from this event to the Whitethorne Foundation, which provides art education and scholarships to indigenous peoples.
