NOVA Scribes

What happens when you take the skills of graphic recording and visual facilitation out of the workshop room and into everyday life?
In this interactive NOVA Scribes session, Fry will introduce the concept of Guerrilla Scribing: using visual listening, sense-making, and real-time drawing in informal, unexpected, and deeply human situations. Think beyond conferences and strategy sessions. What might scribing look like during a difficult conversation, a first date, a family gathering, a conflict between friends, or even while watching reality TV?

Together, we'll explore how the tools we use as facilitators and visual practitioners can become everyday life skills. Through examples, discussion, and hands-on practice, you'll experiment with capturing conversations, relationships, emotions, and dynamics as they unfold in real time.

This workshop will include:

• Examples of Guerrilla Scribing in action
• A breakdown of the principles and process behind the practice
• A live demonstration
• A participatory drawing exercise
• Group discussion and Q&A

Whether you're a graphic recorder, sketchnoter, facilitator, coach, or simply someone curious about bringing more intentionality and understanding into your daily interactions, this session will offer a fresh perspective on what it means to truly listen with a pen.

Fry (she/they) is a graphic recorder, illustrator, and educator who believes images are a powerful tool for creating positive change. Her interest in visual work is founded in an appreciation for deeper levels of listening, cultivating new mindsets, and allowing space for people to be creative. Fry’s work as an artist extends into the culture of zine making; she has received two grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to produce publications focused on mental health awareness. She is also passionate about public art and can be found sitting inside her creations Selfie Bot or Ventomatic.

## Succeed in a Skills-Based Hiring World with a CMF® from INIFAC

With Dr. Eileen Dowse
As employers increasingly focus on demonstrated skills rather than job titles or degrees, professional certification can help facilitators clearly communicate what they know and what they can do.
Join Dr. Eileen Dowse as she introduces the International Institute for Facilitation’s wide range of professional certifications. Eileen will explain how credentials such as the Certified Master Facilitator® (CMF®), Certified Master Learning Facilitator® (CMLF®), and Certified Virtual Facilitator® (CVF®), who each certification is designed for, and what applicants must demonstrate to earn them.
You’ll learn:

• Which INIFAC certification best matches your experience and professional goals
• How competency-based certification differs from completing a training course
• What the application and assessment process involves
• How certification can strengthen your credibility and distinguish you in a skills-based marketplace
• How to evaluate whether you are ready to pursue certification

Whether you are an emerging facilitator, experienced practitioner, trainer, consultant, graphic facilitator, or organizational leader, this session will help you identify a certification pathway that reflects your skills and supports the next stage of your career.
Following the presentation, Eileen will answer questions about INIFAC’s certifications, competencies, assessment process, and the value of becoming certified.

Eileen Dowse Ph.D. is a recognized global leadership consultant and organizational psychologist specializing in organizational health and effectiveness through education, consulting, facilitation and executive coaching. She has extensive practical experience in the field of global communications, global leadership and cultural competency development throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia.
Eileen fosters productive relationships for organizations and strengthens employee commitment to ensure greater levels of collective impact. As a recognized professional speaker, corporate educator, executive coach, and award-winning author of "The Naked Manager, How to build open relationships at work", her programs are thought-provoking, results-oriented, entertaining, and inspirational. She has also written, "The Agile Business Leader, The Four Roles of Successful Leaders" (translated into Chinese) and “Where Noah Went Wrong, seven sink or swim lessons for leaders.” All of her books focus on being responsive, adaptive, and inclusive in an era filled with confusion, contradictions, and corruption.
Clients seek out Eileen because she has mastered the art of identifying the root of organizational issues and has implemented strategies that allow leaders, teams, and entire organizations to become more effective.
She is a Certified Master Learning Facilitator, Master Corporate Executive Coach, and Certified Master Facilitator® and Certified Master Learning Facilitator®.