NOVA Scribes

Raising Future Scribes: Helping Young People Find Their Visual Voice & Creative Confidence

How did you find your visual practice? Or how did it find you?
Many of us find our visual practice later in life, often by accident. What if we intentionally nurture it earlier? What might happen then?
This session contemplates how we can kindle visual thinking and creative confidence in younger generations—whether as parents, educators, mentors or practitioners. Together, we will reflect on how visual expression forms part of identity, how environments shape creative confidence and how we can support young people in using visuals as a way of thinking, communicating, expressing and meaning making. We'll close with practical approaches for encouraging visual practice in everyday settings for the young and young at heart.

Learning Objectives

• Observe how our own relationship to creativity shapes how we encourage it in younger people
• Explore ways to frame visual expression as a form of thinking, not just artistic skill
• Identify small, everyday practices that help young people build confidence in expressing ideas visually
• Leave with language and approaches that nurture [visual] curiosity in the next generation

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NOVA Scribes has entered into a partnership with the IFVP: the International Forum of Visual Practitioners! This workshop is an IFVP Learning Lab. All IFVP members have access to Learning Labs at https://ifvpforum.circle.so/c/learning-hub/

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.
You can find previously recorded videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJfInZHmS8prj2_DUaJ35CYY8n7SzoPMJ

We’re not charging for this workshop, but we will be asking for donations! Donations cover the costs of hosting events on Meetup, to honorariums for new graphic recorders, and scholarships.

Please be sure you are registered on Meetup! If your Zoom name doesn’t match your name on Meetup, you will not be admitted. (We’ve had Zoom bombers.)

As visual practice expands across facilitation, recording, strategy, and sensemaking, the way our work manifests—in person and online—is becoming increasingly diverse. In this session, we will explore examples of our practice from different contexts and reflect together on what anchors the field, specifically focusing on what may be stretching or redefining it. Rather than prescribing answers, our conversation will be guided by a fundamental question:

Is visual practice defined by how we work, what we produce, or by what it enables?

In alignment with this inquiry, this session invites practitioners to examine how we describe our work, what we consider within the bounds of the practice, and how we communicate its value to clients in an evolving professional landscape.

## Learning Objectives

• Examine how visual practice manifests across facilitation, recording, and sensemaking contexts
• Identify core elements that anchor visual practice regardless of format or role
• Explore emerging interpretations that may expand or reshape the field
• Reflect on how to describe and position one's work to clients in a shifting professional landscape

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NOVA Scribes has entered into a partnership with the IFVP: the International Forum of Visual Practitioners! This workshop is an IFVP Learning Lab. All IFVP members have access to Learning Labs at https://ifvpforum.circle.so/c/learning-hub/

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.
You can find previously recorded videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJfInZHmS8prj2_DUaJ35CYY8n7SzoPMJ

We’re not charging for this workshop, but we will be asking for donations! Donations cover the costs of hosting events on Meetup, to honorariums for new graphic recorders, and scholarships.

Please be sure you are registered on Meetup! If your Zoom name doesn’t match your name on Meetup, you will not be admitted. (We’ve had Zoom bombers.)