Personal History & Author Talk: Spiritual Edge with Joran Oppelt

You're getting a twofer with this one!

In part one, Brian will demonstrate how to facilitate a personal history: a graphic timeline that captures an individual's life, learnings, career, family, highlights, and lowlights. The personal history is a great activity for coaches, family members, and coworkers to understand each others' histories, defining moments, and stories.

And, the subject will be Joran Oppelt! Joran will be the latest in our Author Talk series. In part two, he'll be talking about his new book, Spiritual Edge: Exploring the Boundaries and Evolution of Religion. It addresses religious tools such as prayer and faith formation, challenges the status quo of traditional religious thinking, and points the way toward religious innovation.

This will be a HYBRID NOVA Scribes! If you're in the Herndon area, you're welcome to join Joran and Brian at Brian's home studio (in fact, we could use a hand with the hybrid meeting and with the drawing! Reach out to brian@lizardbrain.com for the address.)

Joran Oppelt is a Senior Consultant at The Grove Consultants International and has over a decade of experience in visual consulting, graphic facilitation, and executive coaching. He has helped shape strategy with clients in the fields of technology, sport, healthcare, and finance with a passion for leadership development and team alignment.

Joran holds a deep belief in the power of human potential and in art-making as a tool for healing and community building. Joran uses a strengths-based approach when coaching leaders and sees teams and organizations through a developmental lens. He enjoys creating safe spaces for groups to play with rigorous frameworks. These have included The Grove’s Team Performance and Strategic Visioning models, innovation/design thinking, OKRs, Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, Gamestorming, Storybrand, and more.

Joran is the author of Facilitation: A Human-Centered Guide to the Art of Collaboration; Visionary Leadership; and The Visual Meetings Field Guide.